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Chapter 4 moves to Vancouver, focussing on the strategy and process of transnational migration in relation to cultural capital. It examines how Chinese families use mobility and other resources at their disposal to access different types of cultural capital in Canada. Chapter 5 returns once again to Hong Kong, thereby, emphasising the circularity of students’ and graduates’ trajectories. This chapter provides a detailed examination of the way in which graduates convert their cultural capital into economic capital in the labour market. It focuses on the embedded value of the overseas education, revealed in the specific employment experiences of returnees. In the process of job seeking, the value of the Canadian degree was found to be closely associated with graduates’ social capital, which links Vancouver and Hong Kong in a transnational circuit of students, graduates, and employers. Finally, chapter 6 examines graduates’ employability into the future as they struggle to maintain their positional advantage in an increasingly competitive and uncertain professional environment. It includes a discussion of the importance of postgraduate education as part of an extended temporal, as well as spatial, process of accumulating cultural capital.