There is general agreement overall about the desirability and importance of youth support systems as being crucial for young people ‘at risk’ to help them cultivate their subjectivities about employability. In this article, we take a closer look at these support systems and especially at outreach youth work in Finland. We focus on the construction of knowledge and subjectivities of young people related to it. We argue that among the good intentions in cultivating young people’s subjectivities, outreach youth work tends to operate as a practice for enhancing the construction of psycho-emotional vulnerabilities and employability of young people while translating wider societal questions of austerity, poverty and inequality into questions of individualised deficiencies.

普遍认同青年支持系统的可取性和重要性，因为它对“处于危险中”的年轻人帮助他们培养关于就业能力的主观性至关重要。在本文中，我们将仔细研究这些支持系统，尤其是芬兰的外展青年工作。我们专注于青少年相关知识和主体性的建设。我们认为，在培养青年主体性的良好意图中，外展青年工作往往作为一种实践来加强青年心理-情感脆弱性和就业能力的建设，同时将更广泛的紧缩、贫困和不平等等社会问题转化为个性化的不足。