About forty percent of the world's people live on incomes of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day,...
Angela Dale, Nusrat Shaheen, Virinder S. Kalra, Edward Fieldhouse
The article examines the educational and employment experiences and aspirations of young Pakistani and Bangladeshi people living in Oldham, in Great Manchester. Many young people demonstrated high aspirations and high levels of participation, particularly in relation to the educational and occupatio...
John Fien, Cameron Neil, Matthew Bentley
This paper provides the rationale for a new education for sustainable development (ESD) project being developed in Australia.Titled Project otherWISE, it seeks to build the capacity of young Australians to be agents of change towards sustainable lifestyles in their communities. The rationale for the...
Senhu Wang
Although substantial research shows that in Britain some ethnic minority women have significantly lower labor force participation (LFP) rates than White British women, even after controlling for demographic characteristics and education levels, little is known about the reasons underlying the remain...
Carolina V. Zuccotti, Jacqueline O’Reilly
Surprisingly little attention has been given to an integrated understanding of the interaction between ethnicity, gender and parental household's employment status affecting young people's educational and labour market outcomes. Drawing on data from Understanding Society, the article compares youth ...
Kaberi Gayen, Ronald McQuaid, Robert Raeside
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association of social networks with being in work, contrasting those under age 50 with those over 50 years. Design/methodology/approach A case study is undertaken of a local labour market in Scotland. Data were collected by interview using a se...
Diane Keithly, Forrest A. Deseran
Drawing on studies dealing with the relationship between family and work, the authors develop a model of youth labor force participation incorporating household, local economic, and individual variables. Data are from the 1980 Public Use Microdata Sample D (PUMS-D) for 16-to 18-year-old males and fe...
Aisha Phoenix, Ann Phoenix
This paper takes up Avtar Brah's (1999) invitation to write back to the issues she raises in her mapping of the production of gendered, classed and racialised subjectivities in west London. It addresses two topics that, together, illuminate racialised and gendered interpellation and psychosocial pro...
Carol Haywood, an Mac
Ingunn Marie Eriksen, Kari Stefansen, Tonje Fjogstad Langnes, Kristin Walseth
The topic of this article is the classed formation of health lifestyles in youth. Based on longitudinal interview data (41 youths, 17 of their parents) from two contrasting class contexts in Norway, we investigate how health lifestyles are reproduced across generations and during youth, focussing pa...
Bente Puntervold Bø
Denne artikkelen viser hvordan den norske innreisepolitikken overfor asylsøkere og innvandrere ikke bare har blitt mer omfattende fra 1970-tallet og til i dag, men også hvordan den har endret karakter. For det første har kontrollen forflyttet seg fra innreiselandet til avreiselandet – over landegren...
Pat Mahony, Christine Zmroczek
This volume presents debates on class within an international context. Its particular focus is on women's theorized experience of social class from a variety of feminist perspectives, contextualized in relation to the countries and regions in which they live. Using personal experience as a basis, co...
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 sequence analysis to administrative data from Norway, we investigate the link between NEET status and lo...
Patricio Cuevas‐Parra
Academia and practice have increased their investment in young peoples’ participation. One key approach has been the shift from extracting data from young people to engaging them as researchers. Drawing on 2 case studies with young Syrian refugees and Bangladeshi young people, this paper critically ...
Thomas Abrams, David Abbott, Bhavnita Mistry
This paper draws on studies carried out in Canada (2016–2018) and the UK (2009–18) which explored the experiences of boys and men with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Life expectancy with DMD has increased significantly and generations of men lead lives that many did not expect them to be leading...