ABSTRACT The article focuses on social vulnerability and how Lifelong Learning (LLL) policies tackle it. Two Italian case studies on local LLL measures within Italian Youth Guarantee (YG) scheme are discussed: Civic Service in Genoa and NEETwork Project in Milan. The aim is to investigate how such measures shape the life courses of young adults in vulnerable conditions. Examining whether their support of the school–work transitions meets the youths’ needs, accounting for the different contexts and the individual resources and shortcomings. Similarities and differences between the two case studies are discussed, focusing on policies’ governance and concept of vulnerability applied to young adults. A conceptualisation of the vulnerability as a process developing over the young adults’ life course trajectories is presented. Conceiving it in a multidimensional way, discussing the interplay between the individual resources, and contextual factors in emerging ‘vulnerable conditions’ of young adults. Then, the article proposes possible interpretations of the ways in which young adults relate to and cope with LLL policies, according to the Merton’s strain theory, outlining different strategies of adaptation in uncertain biographies. The risk to increase social exclusion and inequalities is discussed as an unintended effect of LLL policies.

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终身学习政策和年轻人：来自两个意大利案例研究的思考

摘要 本文侧重于社会脆弱性以及终身学习 (LLL) 政策如何解决它。讨论了关于意大利青年保障 (YG) 计划中当地 LLL 措施的两个意大利案例研究：热那亚的公民服务和米兰的 NEETwork 项目。目的是调查这些措施如何影响处于弱势条件下的年轻人的生命历程。检查他们对学校工作过渡的支持是否满足青少年的需求，考虑到不同的环境以及个人资源和缺点。讨论了两个案例研究之间的异同，重点是政策的治理和适用于年轻人的脆弱性概念。将脆弱性概念化为一个在年轻人生命历程轨迹上发展的过程。以多维的方式构思它，讨论个体资源之间的相互作用，以及年轻人出现的“脆弱状况”的背景因素。然后，根据默顿的应变理论，文章提出了对年轻人与 LLL 政策相关和应对方式的可能解释，概述了不确定传记中的不同适应策略。增加社会排斥和不平等的风险被讨论为 LLL 政策的意外影响。概述不确定传记中的不同适应策略。增加社会排斥和不平等的风险被讨论为 LLL 政策的意外影响。概述不确定传记中的不同适应策略。增加社会排斥和不平等的风险被讨论为 LLL 政策的意外影响。