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About them, without them? figures of youth in Australian policy 2014–2021 Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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 1.991) 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...
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Place-based understandings of ‘risk’ and ‘danger’ through a gendered lens – experiences of sexual violence in a deprived coastal town in the UK Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Aniela Wenham, Hannah Jobling
Foregrounding the voices of young women in a deprived coastal context in the UK, this paper explores the intersection of place, class, gender and marginalisation. Drawing upon participatory qualita...
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Following the changes in young people’s drinking practices before and during the pandemic with a qualitative longitudinal interview material Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Jukka Törrönen, Josefin Månsson, Eva Samuelsson, Filip Roumeliotis, Ludwig Kraus, Robin Room
The paper analyses how the Covid-19 pandemic affected young people’s alcohol-related assemblages, trajectories of becoming and identity claims in Sweden. The data is based on longitudinal qualitati...
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Hopes and dreams: youth activities in civil society organizations in post-conflict countries Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Samantha Ruppel, Lucas Steinbach
For a long time, youth have been seen as a driving factor for conflicts or as victims of conflicts. While some literature and research on youth in conflict tend to be overly negative and focus on t...
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The consequences of caring on health during early adulthood in Spain Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Elisenda Rentería, Mariona Lozano, Jeroen Spijker
Young informal carers are gaining importance due to the growing demand for older care needs and the reduction of available family carers. Caring can be intense and time-consuming, and is associated...
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A political economy of youth policy in Mexico Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 José Antonio Cervantes-Gómez, Hugo Javier Fuentes Castro, Víctor Aramburu Cano
This article discusses the recent adoption of a large-scale youth programme in Mexico. Political economy approaches offer a critical account of the institutional arrangements that have resulted in ...
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‘We never get a space to just have a good time together’: indigenous LGBTIQSB+ young people carving out alternative viable lives Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Karen Soldatic, Corrinne T. Sullivan, Georgia Coe, John Leha, William Trewlynn, Kim Spurway
In this paper, we begin to explore the connections between Indigenous LGBTIQSB+ young people’s intersecting identities and their everyday practices of constructing viable alternative lives in settl...
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Anchors of belonging and the logics of othering of young Finns Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Saija Benjamin, Pia Koirikivi, Kathlyn Elliott, Liam Gearon, Christine Namdar, Arniika Kuusisto
To better understand the ways the youth perceive ‘us’ and ‘them’ in twenty-first-century Western societies, this article looks at belonging and othering in the wider context of research on self-oth...
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Assembling places, technologies and young people – becoming rural youth with vehicles and digital technologies in Finland Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Ville Pöysä, Helena Ristaniemi
In this article, we explore the meanings of different technologies, especially vehicles and digital technologies, in the lives of young rural people. This article combines two different qualitative...
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The gendered district effect: psychosocial reasons why girls wish to leave their rural communities Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Ingunn Marie Eriksen, Patrick Lie Andersen
The rural youth exodus has mostly been explained with the pull of the city. In this mixed-method study, we explore whether young people also experience a push to leave the rural community due to a ...
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Dreaming the life: international students and the temporal complexity of employability Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Alison Taylor, Catalina Bobadilla Sandoval, Sameena Karim Jamal
Undergraduates today are required to make strategic decisions about where and what they study, and how they allocate time to studies, extra-curricular activities, and work. International students a...
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Perceptions of girls and young women on the role of gender and social media conflict implicated in violence Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Maritza Vasquez Reyes, Caitlin Elsaesser, Jocelyn R. Smith Lee, Jacquelyn Santiago Nazario, Robin Stevens
Social media has changed the landscape of adolescence, altering how young people communicate and connect with peers. This study explores how young women of color living in marginalized neighborhood...
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Political participation of refugee and host community youths: epistemic resistance through artistic and participatory spaces Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 F. Melis Cin, Craig Walker, Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm, Ashley Gunter, Necmettin Doğan, Lorna Truter, Frank Ahimbisibwe, Tominke Christine Olaniyan
The political participation of youth is growing in importance with the proliferation of youth parliaments, councils, and online campaigning. Yet, these sites are not accessible to all youth, especi...
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‘Stability is a foggy concept’: work stability from the perspective of young people with mobility experiences Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Dominika Winogrodzka
Currently, substantial attention is being paid to flexibility in the working life of young people. Stability is a conceptual companion of flexibility; however, its role has been vastly underestimat...
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Understanding the public participation of young people in border regions of mainland Portugal: youth as local development agent Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Thiago Freires, Sara Faria, Sofia Marques da Silva
Although young people are recognized as stakeholders who should be involved in public participation, engagement by youth advocates in local development and decision-making is scarce. Young people’s...
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Housing advantage, hidden curriculum, habitus: students’ past and future housing pathways revisited Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Nick Revington
While past research into young people’s transitions out of the parental home identified a distinct student housing pathway offering an institutionally supported ‘housing advantage’, more recently s...
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Feeling close, disclosing feelings – family practices and practices of intimacy in youth–parent relations across three generations in Norway Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Kristin Beate Vasbø, Kristinn Hegna
In this article we aim to understand how everyday family practices and practices of intimacy are connected in the formation of emotional ties in young people’s family relationships, by examining th...
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Making do: young people and mobilities at home Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Audrey Yue, Lilian Chee, Jane M. Jacobs, Natalie Pang
This paper investigates young people’s mobile practices of ‘making do’ as they negotiate work, study and play in the home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on Singapore, and drawing on origina...
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Historical reflection as a source of inspiration for youth resistance in illiberal regimes – a qualitative study of the FreeSZFE movement in Hungary Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Eszter Kirs
Political socialization of youth is crucial both in the maintenance of an illiberal regime and in the resistance by civil society. The present qualitative study provides insight into the personal m...
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School-to-work transitions in rural North Sweden: staying on in a reviving local labor market Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Maria Rönnlund, Aina Tollefsen
This article addresses young people’s school-to-work transitions. The analysis draws on data from a Swedish ongoing qualitative longitudinal project spanning over 10 years. In this article, we focu...
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What role do young people believe Universal Basic Income can play in supporting their mental health? Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Elliott A. Johnson, Hannah Webster, James Morrison, Riley Thorold, Alice Mathers, Daniel Nettle, Kate E. Pickett, Matthew T. Johnson
ABSTRACT The proportion of 16- to 24-year-olds in England reporting a longstanding mental health condition increased almost 10-fold between 1995 and 2014. Studies demonstrate an association between income and anxiety and depression, with bi-directional effects. There is also emerging evidence that cash transfers may mitigate, prevent or delay those conditions. This article presents qualitative data
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Gendered youth transitions in local jihad in Indonesia: negotiating agency in arranged marriage Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Muhammad Najib Azca, Rani Dwi Putri, Pam Nilan
ABSTRACT In accounts of local Islamist jihad, little attention has been directed to how young women exercise agency when they face arranged marriages with jihadi fighters. They undergo a different kind of life transition, one that has rarely been examined in youth studies. This paper reports on a study of how young female Muslims in arranged marriages with mujahidin men navigated their transitions
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Getting a foot in the door: local labour markets and the school-to-work transition Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Katy Morris
ABSTRACT Despite persistent sub-national variation in youth unemployment rates, the relationship between local labour market conditions and youth labour market outcomes is not well understood. This article explores the consequences of variation in the level and type of demand for labour for the amount of time it takes young people in the United Kingdom to find employment, following departure from full-time
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Young female traders’ quest for viability in Zimbabwe's politicised urban spaces Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Rekopantswe Mate, Marjoke Oosterom, David Mpofu
ABSTRACT This article analyses the viability struggles of young female traders in Harare, Zimbabwe. It makes a conceptual contribution to debates about viability, which captures how young people connect and pursue aims across diverse life domains (referred to as ‘thinking and acting across’), by addressing gender and generational power dynamics. The article demonstrates how young female traders in
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‘We are slowly reclaiming for ourselves’: the generative possibilities of Indigenous youth voices Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Natasha Blanchet-Cohen, Véronique Picard, Flavie Robert-Careau, Cedric Gray-Lehoux
ABSTRACT Indigenous youth are actors of change in their communities, providing new perspectives on decolonization, unity, and cultural resurgence within the spaces they occupy. In this article, we report on a collaborative study that examined the many layers of Indigenous youth voices. With an organization that represents First Nations youth in Quebec, we conducted an Indigenous mixed methods study
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Educational homogamy, values, activities, and inequality: an intergenerational perspective Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Lesley Andres
ABSTRACT Educational homogamy, defined as individuals with similar educational backgrounds who marry or form relationships, is increasingly identified with rising levels of inequality. Bourdieu’s concepts of field of forces and field of struggles are used to examine intergenerational educational homogamy dynamics. Through correspondence analyses with 28 years of the longitudinal data from Paths on
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‘Morphing between the margins’: how youth make a living across multiple spaces in South Africa and beyond Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Adam Cooper
ABSTRACT Young South Africans regularly generate livelihoods on the move, as they morph across a mainstream economic field and two translocal sub-fields. While a field implies sets of relations operating under common conditions, translocal sub-fields are local spaces of exchange and practice, where resources are utilised, in a relationship with other linked spaces. In South Africa, the mainstream economic
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Raymond Williams and contemporary youth transitions: a cultural studies critique of social generational approaches in youth studies Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Isaac Hoff
ABSTRACT By exploring housing transitions and their impact on the leisure practices of 12, white, British economically ‘middling’ men aged between 20 and 26 whilst utilising the work of British cultural theorist Raymond Williams, this article articulates a cultural studies critique of social generational approaches. Firstly, it shows how this approach to young lives can remedy the ‘base’ determining
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Speaking back to gender-based violence in New Brunswick schools through queer maker literacies with 2SLGBTQ+ youth Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Casey Burkholder, Katie Hamill, Amelia Thorpe
ABSTRACT Schools are a site of gender-based violence for queer, trans, and non-binary youth. Drawing on a participatory visual research project with three queer, trans, and non-binary youth, we argue that selfie and cellphilm production offer a glimpse into queer maker literacies. We suggest that the practice of making do-it-yourself (DIY) media productions with queer youth and older community collaborators
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Ambivalent recognition: young unaccompanied refugees’ encounters with Norwegian society Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Kristina Johansen, Synnøve K. N. Bendixsen
ABSTRACT Receiving the right to stay in Norway might seem a critical factor for refugees’ well-being and belonging. Yet, this research shows that young unaccompanied refugees experience ambivalent feelings towards Norwegian society after their resettlement. The study is based on a qualitative research design with 14 young unaccompanied refugees residing in Norway. Drawing on recognition theory, we
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Rethinking education and work relationships in youth transition: an alternative metaphor Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Jun Fu
ABSTRACT Education and work are two essential parts of young people’s lives. Currently, the relationship between education and work in the youth policy field is predominantly discussed from the perspective of a narrow economic discourse of education to work transitions. This is despite the fact that this narrow paradigm of examining youth transition from school to work which was prevalent in the 1980s
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‘Sitting there and listening was one of the most important lessons I had to learn’: critical capacity building in youth participatory action research Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Carla Luguetti, Nyayoud Jice, Loy Singehebhuye, Kashindi Singehebhuye, Adut Mathieu, Ramón Spaaij
ABSTRACT This work builds upon critical youth studies’ concern with capacity building in engaging young people as active agents for social change. This article analyses critical capacity building processes among young women engaged in youth participatory action research (YPAR) that sought to co-design a community sport programme in Melbourne, Australia. Participants included the first author, four
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‘You either go on the gang life, or you go on that football life’: class, race, and place in imaginaries of South London’s sports cages Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Stephen Crossley, Fraser Curry, Luke Billingham
ABSTRACT In considering the spatialization of race and the racialization of space, this article explores dominant media representations of sports cages in the UK. To date, media interest in these cages, often found on social housing estates, has revolved around the role they have played in the childhoods of a small number of young, almost exclusively Black, footballers, primarily from London. In the
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Normalising sex and resisting shame: young Aboriginal women’s views on sex and relationships in an urban setting in Australia Journal of Youth Studies (IF 1.991) Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Kacey Martin, Joanne Bryant, Karen Beetson, Jessica Wilms, Tamika Briggs, Carla Treloar, Christy Newman
ABSTRACT This paper explores young Aboriginal women’s views on sex and relationships in Australia – including their beliefs about broader social attitudes relating to sexuality, gender, and well-being – and how these understandings can impact young women’s sexual health. The project adopted a strengths-based approach and used peer interviewing to investigate how Aboriginal young people in urban settings