Much of the literature on globalization has centered on the large, macro-level forces that influence the ways ideas, people, and various forms of capital move around the world. From this vantage point, discussions about the progressive feminization of migration, in particular the feminization of out-migration from rural areas, indicate an intriguing trend. Simultaneously, the local experience of global forces is an important way of exploring how macro-level processes are navigated by social actors on the ground. This provides added texture to our understanding of why and how people make decisions about their lives within an increasingly interconnected social, economic, and political environment. This volume explores whether concurrent trends in identity development, social relations, and youth behaviors on the micro-level might help explain similarities observable at the macro-level.By probing how the adolescent participants in this study attempted to change their social and spatial positions, this research viewed class as something participated in and, indeed, reflexively constructed. Using the lens of the psychic landscape (Reay 2005), this book peers into the ways in which certain types of identity work among working-class students have the potential to facilitate upward mobility. Ultimately, this book examines the processes high-achieving rural young women from rural areas in Vermont and Leinster, Ireland were going through while making choices about who they wanted to become as adults and where they wanted to become those people. Through their narratives, this book theorizes about shifts in gender normativity, efforts towards social mobility, and the possible effects of an increasingly globalized society."