The article explores the case of youth travel in modern Russia. Free-traveling is conceptualized as a spatial practice which is a set of techniques that allows young people to gain access to foreign space and in foreign space. The issue of free-traveling is problematized in the context of spatial dimension of social exclusion of young people — access and its physical, financial and information aspects. The concept of spatial practice is proposed to explain how young people struggle with information, financial and physical limitations of access. Through the analysis of free-traveling the author intends to show how young people in Russia cope with the issue of access.
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