Youth Politics and Local Constructions of Youth

Autor/inn/en	Hansson, Kristian; Lundahl, Lisbeth
Titel	Youth Politics and Local Constructions of Youth
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 25 (2004) 2, S.161-178 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Municipalities; Young Adults; Youth Employment; Unemployment; Social Integration; Labor Market; Adolescents; Youth Programs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Magistrat; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Youth work; Jugendarbeit; Arbeitslosigkeit; Soziale Integration; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Jugendsofortprogramm
Abstract	In the 1990s, temporary youth projects became a common approach to handling youth unemployment and the social integration of young people in Sweden. In a longitudinal, qualitative study, 35 unemployed men and women, attending local youth projects in three Swedish municipalities, were followed over a two-year period. The selected contexts represented a wide variety of socio-economic, demographic and geographic characteristics. Central questions concerned the significance of the locality in constructing young people and youth politics, the functions of youth projects for young people, and how youth policy translates in practice. It was concluded that despite striking similarities in project description and organisation, their actual functions differed, both vis-a-vis the individuals and the municipalities involved. The youth projects studied here served as a social distributive apparatus, as a labour market measure, and as a space for leisure and waiting, respectively. Local youth projects tend to stress the responsibilities of a self-governing individual on the one hand, but to reproduce local structures and inequalities on the other. They both realise locally recontextualised national policies and locally formulated policies. (Author).
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