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Political disaffection or institutional adultcentrism? Youth perceptions of adult hegemony in institutional politics and policies Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Roger Soler-i-Martí, Eduard Ballesté-Isern
The relationship between young people and public institutions has traditionally attracted a lot of attention. In particular, there has been much discussion about the idea of youth political disaffe...
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‘Shove that. There’s always hope’: young people’s lived experience of child criminal exploitation Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Nina Maxwell
Criminally exploited young people are often found with tangible evidence of criminality, challenging traditional notions of the victim offender dichotomy. This paper presents criminally exploited y...
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‘Basically, my only dream is to be a part of society’ – young adults’ negotiations for citizenship in the institutional system Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Jenni Kallio
In this article, I examine the construction of citizenship in Finnish society and the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion relating to citizenship from the perspective of young adults who are beco...
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Identities, power and policing of young men in Mathare and Kaptembwo Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-18 Patrick Mutahi
This paper contributes to our understanding of how identities are exploited and the impact on policing. Through empirical data from Mathare and Kaptembwo informal settlements, I analyse how economi...
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Precarious employment as a central axis of emerging adulthood among young working-class Palestinian women in Israel Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Sinyal Athamneh
This study presents findings from qualitative longitudinal research (QLR) conducted among young working-class Palestinian women citizens of Israel who were interviewed as high school students worki...
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Infrastructures of support: Australian young people’s perspectives on caring during the pandemic and future disability and care policy reform Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-18 Laura Davy, Honae Cuffe, Briony Lipton
Today’s young people are critical stakeholders in the future of social care policy and services, but their voices and perspectives are often overlooked in public debate and deliberation on disabili...
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Putting on an act: learning service behaviour in young women’s vocational education and training for hospitality work Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Eva Klope
Young people training for work in the hospitality industry learn that the occupation involves taking on a role in order to handle the emotional demands of guests. This article, based on Hochschild’...
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The psychosocial outcomes of young carers in Australia: a scoping review Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Owen Walker, Jonathan Mason, Richard Moulding
Young carers in Australia are people aged under 25 who undertake a substantial familial caring role. A range of associated disadvantages with this practice have been identified, however, no systema...
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Housing independence pathways in Europe: the influence of parents’ socio-economic background in times of economic stress Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-20 Violetta Tucci
The housing independence of young adults has become more complex and uncertain in Europe over the last decades. Previous research suggests that patterns of independent living and housing demand hav...
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Influences on gambling during youth: comparisons between at-risk/problem, non-problem and non-gambling adolescents in Australia Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Nerilee Hing, Hannah Thorne, Lisa Lole, Kerry Sproston, Nicole Hodge, Matthew Rockloff
Gambling patterns among young people are diverse, yet factors that affect changes in their gambling behaviour as they mature remain poorly understood. This study explores gambling trajectories and ...
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Youth and insecurity from an intersectional perspective: the case of Catalonia Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Míriam Acebillo-Baqué, Lara Maestripieri, Carlos Delclós Gómez-Morán
This article contributes to debates on new social risks by examining the relationship young Catalan people have with various forms of insecurity. Using a mixed-methods approach in an intersectional...
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Indebtpending: an ugly feeling of youthful financialised futurity Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Steven Threadgold, Julia Coffey, David Farrugia, Julia Cook
‘The future’ is a key object of concern in youth studies and sociology more generally. With the recent rise of the financialisation of everyday life and the consumption of credit, young people’s fu...
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When private meets public: young people and political consumerism in the name of environmental activism Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-07 Jennifer A. Hockey
This paper explores how Australian youth climate activists experiencing ecoanxiety overcome obstacles and frustrations in their climate action initiatives by exercising meaningful political agency ...
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Bridging gaps, building futures: evaluating a multinational’s employment programme vs. work-first for youth with diverse education levels Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Roy Peijen, Ruud Muffels
In the Netherlands, public work-first support tends to cause unemployed young people to exit into primarily non-standard jobs. A worldwide-renowned Dutch company, Royal Philips, has offered since t...
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Beyond Angry White Men: a progressive sociological imagination as an alternative to aggrieved entitlement Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Nathan Manning, Djordje Stefanovic
Michael Kimmel, in his book Angry White Men, argues a sense of aggrieved entitlement is central to the experiences of white American men drawn to the far-right. The concept captures both a sense of...
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Planned pleasures: alcohol assemblages for ‘generation sensible’ Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Josefin Månsson, Jukka Törrönen, Eva Samuelsson
It has been suggested that a pivotal explanation for the drastic decrease in young people’s alcohol consumption is the younger generations concern with taking responsibility for a variety of areas ...
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Assemblages of well-being and belonging in young adults’ life-historical narrations: experiences from education and the labour market Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Anna-Maija Niemi
This article provides an empirical study of assemblages of well-being and belonging in the everyday lives of young adults. Using a discursive-narrative reading, I analyse how a sense of well-being ...
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Making sense of politics: how affective dispositions and everyday experiences connect young people with the political Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Anna Van Cauwenberge, Joëlle Swart, Marcel Broersma
This study aims to understand the cognitive, affective and socially situated processes through which young people make sense of politics. We ask (1) how young people construct understandings of pol...
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Tramadol consumption as edgework: intersections of pleasures and risks in the accounts of Nigerian youths Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Ediomo-Ubong Nelson
This study explores the complex interplay of pleasures and risks in young people’s tramadol consumption. It draws from semi-structured interviews with 39 male youths in two cities in Nigeria, and t...
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Risk, discomfort and disruption: experiences of (im)mobilities in public spaces among Swedish youth racialised as non-white Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Johanna Sixtensson, Mirjam Hagström
Mobility can be understood as both an everyday part of, and a normative imperative in, young people’s lives. It is also an unequally distributed resource. Based on interviews and focus groups with ...
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‘Do young legislators face age-based discrimination in parliament? Views from young MPs across the globe' Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Daniel Stockemer, Aksel Sundström
There is a growing literature on youth representation in parliament illustrating a stark underrepresentation of adults aged 35 years or under, as well as 40 years or under, in most national legisla...
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‘Nothing happens here, but that’s ok’: reflexivity, immobility and staying among young people in marginalised rural locations Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Jeanette Østergaard, Mette Pless, Shane Blackman, Robert MacDonald
Research and policy analysis often presumes a ‘mobility imperative’ in respect of rural youth; to ‘get on’ they have to ‘get out’. Those who stay, therefore, tend to be depicted as socially and eco...
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Relational epistemic safety: what young people facing harm in their communities want and need from professionals tasked with helping them Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Rachael Owens, Joanne Walker, Vanessa Bradbury-Leather
When young people are harmed beyond their families, what kinds of professional relationships help to keep them safe? Contextual Safeguarding is an approach to creating safety in community and schoo...
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Young refugees’ feelings of belonging? Encounters with rural Denmark and northern Norway Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Lise Herslund, Gry Paulgaard
This paper investigates how young refugees settled in rural Norway and Denmark experience their new places of residence. We find inspiration in the idea of ‘contradictions of space’ (Kinkaid [2020]...
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Situated belonging as everyday practice in a semi-public Youth Living Room for undocumented young city dwellers Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Lieke Wissink
This article discusses how everyday practices in a day shelter for undocumented youth interfere with binary narratives of belonging versus non-belonging. Tapping into scholarship on a home in the f...
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Youth and COVID-19 immunization: navigating the nexus of individualism and mistrust Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Mario López Salas, Carolina Regalía, Simone Belli
The objective of this study is to comprehensively examine the diverse discourses among unvaccinated young individuals against COVID-19 in the region of Madrid. Our aim is to gain insights into the ...
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Sages of the street: violence management and neighborhood conflict among crime- and violence-exposed young males in southwest Houston Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Will Bryerton
This study presents efforts to mitigate the likelihood of violent victimization among a network of young males with varying degrees of criminal involvement and previous victimization. Already inhab...
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Climate change competencies from perspective of Finnish youth Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Janina Taurinen, Veli-Matti Vesterinen, Salla Veijonaho, Joula Siponen, Laura Riuttanen, Taina Ruuskanen
Climate change (CC) is causing distress and worry in today's young people, who are inheriting CC-related problems from previous generations. To equip young people with the necessary CC mitigation a...
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Addressing youths’ digital agency with internet technologies: discourses and practices that produce inequalities Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Marta Choroszewicz
This study approached the issue of youths’ digital agency by analyzing the ways in which youths talk about their use of Internet technologies for recreational purposes outside of school. Using inte...
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Social transitions in the perceptions of female circumcision by young women before and following immigration to Norway Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Mona-Iren Hauge
Drawing on qualitative interviews about female circumcision with 21 young women of immigrant background, this paper explores the social transitions that occur through experiences such as female cir...
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‘It was too much technology … I chucked my laptop across the room': young women, networked affect and the positivity imperative Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Holly Thorpe, Marianne Clark, Mihi Nemani, Grace O’Leary, Nida Ahmad
Engaging with theories of networked affect, this paper highlights the importance of new ways of thinking about young women’s relations with social media beyond ‘good or bad’ narratives, and towards...
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Dynamics of belonging amid geographical immobility: a longitudinal analysis of youth trajectories in rural Australia Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Hernan Cuervo, Quentin Maire, Johanna Wyn
Our analysis of young people who have stayed in rural communities contributes to a ‘relational turn' in youth studies that rejects substantialist approaches to make visible the range of relationshi...
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Movers, returners and stayers: the role of place in shaping the (im)mobility aspirations of young people in coastal towns Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Avril Keating, Rachel Benchekroun, Claire Cameron, Sam Whewall
This article focuses on the role of place in shaping the (im)mobility aspirations of young people in coastal towns. In the Global North, youth mobility has become a normalised part of the journey t...
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About them, without them? figures of youth in Australian policy 2014–2021 Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Catherine Waite, Lucas Walsh, Beatriz Gallo Cordoba, Blake Cutler, Thuc Bao Huynh
This paper considers the multiple and contradictory depictions of young people in youth policy and reflects on how youth engagement is constructed in Australian Federal and State policy. In this jo...
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Considering the past, present and future: making the case for a hauntological approach to youth Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Charlotte McPherson
Young people’s emergent position in the life-course means that they are widely perceived to embody the future, with their ‘successes’ and ‘failures’ in youth considered important portents of the fu...
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Continuing existence: viability and indigenous youth action in Himachal Pradesh, India Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Nilanjana Sen, Craig Jeffrey, Jane Dyson
This paper uses field research conducted in Himachal Pradesh in 2021–2022 to analyse the efforts of Kinnauri young people to critique and address social and environmental crises in their region. Th...
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The social reproductive labour of university students with hostile Jobs Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Kiran Mirchandani, Hongxia Shan
This paper focuses on the social reproductive labour of one group of young people - university students who hold hostile jobs. Engaging in paid work while studying full-time has become common for u...
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Resisting sustainable development: an analysis of young people’s online discussions Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Linnea Urberg, Johan Öhman
Society is currently facing and experiencing a fundamental environmental and social climate-related crisis. Despite this, many groups in society are either opposed to or sceptical about various sus...
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Differing patterns of employment for university students: the role of family background, educational choices and access to benefits Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Alessandro Bozzetti, Nicola De Luigi, Loris Vergolini
Student employment is on the increase in many European countries. It takes many forms, from full-time employment to various types of flexible work, which involves short-term, non-standard and infor...
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Breaking the binary: self-narratives of young people in Italy Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Salvatore Monaco
This paper explores the self-narratives of young nonbinary individuals in Italy, shedding light on the challenges they face, thereby contributing to a nuanced understanding of these phenomena and t...
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The myth of Australia’s migrant youth gang: examining the perceived association between ethnicity and gangs Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Kathryn Benier, Angela Higginson
In Australia, as with other countries around the world, migrant young people receive significant media and political attention as the alleged perpetrators of significant criminal activity. This has...
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Subculture, masculinity and place in young rural men’s resistance to counter-migration Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Susanna Areschoug
In the wake of deindustrialization, many rural areas in the Global North face challenges such as an ageing population, declining welfare systems and limited job and educational opportunities, probl...
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‘Illegal Youth’: media representations of young people in Portugal during the first pandemic year Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Ana Melro, Odete Girão, Rui Carreira
Young people have a long tradition of being portrayed in media discourses as mainly problematic and victims. In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization declared that ...
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‘It’s like a hug’: examining the role of music-making for the well-being of youth during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Andy Bennett, Ernesta Sofija, Ben Green, Paula Guerra, Frances Howard, Ana Oliveira
This article presents findings from a cross-disciplinary, international project that seeks to understand the importance of music-making for young people (aged 18–35 years) as a source of well-being...
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Going against the grain? A longitudinal study of the material-discursive practices of staying among young adults in rural Finland Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Helena Ristaniemi, Kaisa Vehkalahti, Ville Pöysä
This article explores what staying rural means for Finnish young people who envision, or consider, a future in sparsely populated regions. The article draws on a qualitative longitudinal study of y...
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Young people’s engagement in online research: challenges and lessons from conducting focus groups with young people online Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Katherine A. Smith, Christine Huebner, Thomas Loughran, Jan Eichhorn, Andrew Mycock
Online qualitative focus groups are a method which has been increasingly used, especially since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, including in research with young people. Studies have reflect...
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‘I don’t feel like a young dad. I feel like an unprepared dad’: young parenthood, welfare support and accelerated transitions to adulthood in the UK and Sweden Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Linzi Ladlow
Young parents (defined as entering parenthood aged 25 and under) are often considered to be a homogenous population, yet this encompasses a broad age range. This article develops a critical analysi...
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A life course perspective on the NEET phenomenon: long-term exclusion across cohorts, gender, and social origin among young adults in Norway Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Mari Amdahl Heglum, Wendy Nilsen
This study addresses the limitations of the NEET indicator (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) as a measure of the risk of social exclusion. Applying a life course analytical framework and ...
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“A game show at the end of the world” The currency of youth in UN climate summitry Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Laura Bullon-Cassis
What do the lived experiences of young people tell us about the currency of youth in United Nations (UN) climate summitry, at a time in which youth is endowed with symbolic capital? Initially, self...
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Talking about relational youth work: why language matters Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Trudi Cooper, Tim Corney, Hilary Tierney, Jamie Gorman, John Sutcliffe
The literature on youth work emphasises the importance of ‘relationship’ to good practice, moreover, the characteristics of the youth-work relationship have been posited as a defining feature of yo...
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Young people (de)politicizing youth cultures: agency, well-being, and claims for change Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Nadezhda Vasileva
This paper investigates unauthorized practices of sticker art that usually understood by scholars as political acts and yet narrated as apolitical by the sticker artists themselves. In order to ana...
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Mortgaged futures: fractured livelihoods and youth debts during COVID-19 Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Anna Barford, Gerard McCarthy, Grace Mueller, Helen Osborne, Andi Misbahul Pratiwi, Kaajal Pradhan, Soniya Shrestha
The social and economic impacts of COVID-19 have been devastating for many, and collectively young people generally fared worse than older adults, with the impact amongst young people also being hi...
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Individual, failing: an analysis of film portrayals of the causes of young adult coresidence from 2010–2020 Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Brenan R. R. Smith, Kathrina Mazurik, Jan Gelech
Although researchers have observed that film depictions of young adult coresiders (i.e. young adults who live with their parents) tend to be negative, no research has systematically analyzed or exp...
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Feminists, popular feminists, and transfeminists: young Argentine activists define their own identities Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Elisabeth Jay Friedman, Ana Laura Rodríguez Gustá
From Iran to Uruguay, young feminist activists have taken to the streets in unprecedented numbers demanding changes to the gender status quo and its intersections with a host of oppressive social a...
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Parental social disadvantage as a determinant of welfare reliance among young adults before and after the Great Recession Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Timo M. Kauppinen, Sakari Karvonen, Laura Kestilä
We investigate the association between parental social disadvantage and later welfare reliance among their children during entry to adulthood. We ask whether this association changed after the onse...
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The memorable nature experiences of youth: a phenomenological approach to visualized and written experiences Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Riikka Puhakka, Eemeli Hakoköngäs, Saana Peura
Although the well-being effects of nature are increasingly recognized, the trend in urban societies has been declining contact with nature among young people. While youth is described as a ‘time ou...
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Cruel optimism of waiting: precarity experiences of young adults in Turkey Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Fatoş Gökşen, Bermal Küçük, Gözde Cöbek, Sidar Bayram, Zeynep Cemalcılar
This paper examines young adults’ everyday experiences of precarity. Defining precarity as a socioeconomic and affective condition, it offers waiting as an analytical tool to explore the intersecti...
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Which companies hire NEET? Organisational characteristics of hiring NEET in a Norwegian full-population registry study Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Daniele Evelin Alves, Jannike Gottschalk Ballo, Wendy Nilsen, Camilla Stub Lundberg, Andreas Lillebråten, Vilde Hoff Bernstrøm
Which types of organisations hire NEET? We use longitudinal national registry data from Norway to investigate four types of organisational characteristics: (a) staff proportion with low pay and low...
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Challenges and coping with COVID-19: perspectives of emerging adults and their mothers Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Abby L. Goldstein, Jasmin L. Katz, Alexandra Shifrin, Chloe A. Hamza, Danielle S. Molnar, Elaine Scharfe
Emerging adulthood (spanning ages 18–25 years old) is a critical time of developmental transition. Although the COVID-19 pandemic led to multiple disruptions in the lives of emerging adults (EAs), ...
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From responsibilization to responsibility: justifications of everyday ecological practices of Moscow youth and worth of proactivity Journal of Youth Studies (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Lebedeva Daria
In modernity, responsibilization has become a tool for addressing public issues in citizens’ access to public goods, including the sphere of environmental protection. In Russia, having insufficient...