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Disadvantaged youth’s participation in collective decision making
- Authors:
- GAZIT Matan, PERRY-HAZAN Lotem
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 110, 2020, p.104759.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This study examines the fulfillment of disadvantaged youth’s participation rights in collective decision making. It was conducted in participatory frameworks operating under the auspices of a municipality in Israel that implemented a national program aiming to improve the living conditions of children and at-risk youth. The qualitative research design was based on semi-structured interviews conducted with nine youth at risk, aged 16–18, who had participated in collective decision-making processes and with 10 adults who facilitated these participation processes or held senior administrative positions. The findings showed that disadvantaged youth’s participation in collective decision making is encumbered by unique barriers relating to parents’ livelihood challenges, the absence of family support, difficulties in persevering and in complying with timetables, a derogatory attitude expressed by adults not involved in the facilitation process, and youth’s apprehension regarding these attitudes. Factors surmounting these barriers included relational participation, allowing the participants a sense of belonging; adapted participation, based on flexibility and mediation; and counter participation, which stands as a positive alternative to being marginalised at school. The findings also showed that the influence of the youth’s participation encompassed various collective and personal domains, including the ways it transformed the social construction of the youth. The conclusions are grounded in Foucault’s writings on heterotopia (1967). This conceptualisation highlights the dual role of the examined participation as an other space for the youth, which provided them with hegemonic cultural capital and narratives, but was also intertwined with their daily lives in their urban environment context. (Edited publisher abstract)
Four tragedies and a happy ending: autobiographical interpretations of unemployment
- Authors:
- KARLSEN Oxaas, HOLMEN Turid Lingaas, SÆTNAN Ann Rudinow
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Youth Studies, 17(10), 2014, pp.1395-1410.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article explores individuals' experience of unemployment by studying five historical autobiographical stories. A source of life-stories from the competition ‘Write your life’ in 1989 was read through in search of stories about unemployment. Four of the stories were of struggling for work inclusion, while one story was added as a contrast to the others. The latter narrator managed to build a career in spite of a poor starting point in life. Using a narrative approach, we sought to unravel the individuals' meaning constructions and identity formations. What we found was that failed careers apparently demand explanations and externalisations. Further, it became clear that shame appeared more harmful to these individuals than economic loss, the shame of not having contributed in working life and shown their capacity. Over time, this shame seems to lead to loss of self-esteem and health. The long-term struggle for work inclusion experienced by the four unemployed seems to have been replaced by a project of self-defence, a lonely struggle for relief/vindication, so important to them that it appears as the main theme in their life-stories. (Edited publisher abstract)
The ‘post-80s generation,’ ‘young night drifters,’ and the construction of a generic youth subject in Hong Kong
- Authors:
- GROVES Julian M., SIU Kaxton, HO Wai-Yip
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Youth Studies, 17(6), 2014, pp.829-846.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article examines shifting representations of youth in post-handover Hong Kong in order to develop a framework for understanding the process by which some youngsters become hidden or marginal in the public consciousness while others remain highly visible. The authors compare two youth labels that have captured the public's imagination over a 14-year period: the Post-80s Generation and Young Night Drifters (YNDS, also known as nonengaged youth). The more recently created Post-80s label to describe Hong Kong's youth, the authors argue, reflects an emerging vision of influential politicians, cultural and business elites who idealize or, as we put it, ‘genericize’ the city's youth as not only highly educated, entrepreneurial, and self-reliant, but also politically compliant and patriotic. This vision, argued, eclipses another reality, identified by social workers and faced by many youngsters in the territory who have failed to achieve the necessary educational qualifications to participate in the knowledge-based economy and still rely on welfare, personified by the Young Night Drifter label. This analysis leads to questions about the power dynamics behind frequent claims about certain youngsters being representative of a particular generation. (Edited publisher abstract)
‘Why is this not social work?’ The contribution of ‘non-traditional’ placements in preparing social work students for practice
- Authors:
- SCHOLAR Helen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 31(7), 2012, pp.932-950.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article reports on the findings of two evaluations of a major UK charity's learning from providing ‘non-traditional’ social work placements with young people at risk of social exclusion. Study 1 focused on one, non-social work partner organisation, delivering the programme over a number of sites in one English county. This provider used paid and volunteer staff in each of their sites. Study 2 involved 21 sites in nine delivery partner organisations across three different geographical regions, providing both undergraduate and postgraduate placements for eight HEIs. The article challenges the terminology of ‘non-traditional’ and ‘non-social work’ placements and examines the potential of these placements in the current social work curriculum and in the light of the recommendations of the Social Work Task Force and directions from the Social Work Reform Board. In particular, the article highlights the ability of such placements to help prepare students for their statutory placement in relation to formal assessment, legal literacy, and risk awareness and safeguarding. Overall, it is argued that the time is ripe to champion the creative use of such placements for HEIs, delivery partners, social work students and for service users.
Young people and alcohol: meanings, practices and contexts
- Authors:
- WARWICK Ian, et al
- Publisher:
- University of London. Institute of Education. Thomas Coram Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 44p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report is one of several publications prepared as a result of the Department for Children, Schools and Families funded project Young People and Alcohol: Meanings, Practices and Contexts conducted between February 2008 and February 2009. There are two main elements to the work: a set of three reviews and a field work study. The fieldwork reported here sought to develop a new understanding of the ways in which young people at high risk for poor outcomes understood the place of alcohol in their lives. Qualitative data was collected from a total of 82 young people, aged 11-19, in a range of settings (youth centres, alternative education facilities and drug and alcohol services) in three areas of England with contrasting economic and social deprivation. However, most were white males living in areas of socioeconomic deprivation. Overall, alcohol consumption played an important and often central place in the lives of the young people interviewed. Its use was often seen as integral to socialising and ”finding things to do” with friends. The young people reported that they rarely had problems gaining access to alcohol. Alcohol consumption was related to a number of negative consequences. The implications of the full findings for policy development and further research are discussed.
Perceptions of adolescents and young people regarding endemic dental fluorosis in a rural area of Brazil: psychosocial suffering
- Authors:
- de CASTILHO Lia Silva, FERREIRA e FERREIRA Efigenia, PERINI Edson
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 16(6), November 2009, pp.557-563.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The psychosocial consequences of dental fluorosis and how it has affected the self-esteem of adolescents and young people in a rural area in Brazil are described. Semi-structured, face-to-face interviews were carried out with 23 adolescents and young people affected by severe dental fluorosis and 14 of their teachers. The study revealed the affected individuals were embarrassed to smile at strangers due to a presumed association between fluorosis and a lack of dental hygiene. Further findings include conflicts between affected and non-affected students at school, problems in pursuing a romantic relationship and uncertainties regarding a professional future. Disbelief and scepticism were observed regarding the ethical position that science can offer a solution to the problems stemming from the disease. Lesions from severe dental fluorosis appear to be a stigmatising factor and have contributed toward suffering and self-exclusion among an entire generation of adolescents and young people.
Understanding the risks of social exclusion across the life course: youth and young adulthood
- Authors:
- CUSWORTH Linda, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Cabinet Office. Social Exclusion Task Force
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This research is one of four studies commissioned by the Social Exclusion Task Force to gain improve understanding of social exclusion. This report covers 16-24 year olds. The project analyses data from the Family Resources Survey and the British Household Panel Survey. The first stage of the analysis identified indicators in the FRS and BHPS and used them to calculate levels of risk among different groups of young people. The second stage investigated different forms and combinations of risk, how individual indicators of risk overlap, and whether it was possible to derive more summary measures of advantage. The third stage looked at trends in singular and multiple risk of social exclusion, transitions in and out of risk, and some potential triggers of multiple disadvantage. Data was presented under the themes of resources, participation and quality of life. A summary of findings and directions for policy are then presented. Evidence found having lived with a family who was in receipt of income support during adolescence was a high risk factor of social exclusion in young adulthood.
Participatory research and the voice-centred relational method of data analysis: is it worth it?
- Authors:
- BYRNE Anne, CANAVAN John, MILLAR Michelle
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 12(1), February 2009, pp.67-77.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article explores the value of the Voice-Centred Relational (VCR) method of data analysis and interpretation in the context of participatory research with socially excluded teenagers. Focussing on participatory data analysis, the implementation of the method with teenagers in a West of Ireland town who have left school early is described. Written from the perspectives of academic researchers, members of a research team that included teenagers and a Community Arts artist, this article introduces the VCR method and describes the participatory processes, practices and pitfalls. The challenges of doing participatory interpretation with VCR method are considered.
The hardest to reach
- Author:
- de CASTELLA Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Youth Work Now, May 2009, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Haymarket Professional Publications Ltd.
- Place of publication:
- London
Rathbone, the youth training charity, has developed a Youth Engagement programme in an attempt to reach marginalised young people and help them into employment, education or training. This article outlines the charities approach.
Disconnected Youth? Social exclusion, the 'underclass' and economic marginality
- Author:
- MaCDONALD Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work and Society: International Online Journal, 6(2), 2008, Online only
- Publisher:
- University of Bielefeld
Most young people in the UK make relatively ‘successful’, unproblematic transitions from school to work and adulthood. What do we call those that do not? Terms with academic and policy currency tend to define such young people by something they are not or by their presumed social and economic distance and dislocation from ‘the rest’. How we might best describe, explain and label the experience and problem of so-called ‘socially excluded’, ‘disconnected youth’ is the focus of the paper. The paper draws upon extensive qualitative research with young adults growing up in some of Britain’s poorest neighbourhoods, looking particularly at their labour market transitions. Some of the problems and inaccuracies of underclass theory and orthodox conceptualisations of social exclusion are discussed in the light of empirical findings. The youthful biographies described are set in a wider panorama of social structure and economic opportunity, particularly the rapid de-industrialisation of the locality studied. Understanding these historical processes of socio-economic change leads to the conclusion that, in short hand, ‘the economically marginal’ is the best descriptive label of the research participants and ‘economic marginalisation’ is the best explanation of their condition.