Social resilience in facing precarity: young people ‘rising to the occasion’

Bussi, Margherita; Schøyen, Mi Ah; Vedeler, Janikke Solstad; O’Reilly, Jacqueline; McDonnell, Ann; Lewis, Christine

doi:10.4337/9781788118798.00015

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“…It has also been employed to explore labour market transitions among the youth population (Bigos et al, 2014;Hvinden et al, 2019). More recently, it has been successfully applied to cross-nationally compare employment precariousness for disabled youth (Bussi et al, 2019). At a fundamental level, resilience entails an individual's capacity to bounce back from adverse, stressful, unfortunate and vulnerable situations.…”

Section: Analytical Framework: Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Third, transformative capacities entail individuals raising their sociopolitical consciousness, actively partaking in civil society organizations and, through sustained collective action and representation, creating social institutions enabling their individual well-being. Within youth research, the concept of social resilience offers a critical and normative framework to comprehend the significance of contextual factors (Bussi et al, 2019;Keck & Sakdapolrak, 2013). It encompasses the influence of protective factors across the individual, relational, community and cultural levels on accumulating human capital and overcoming adversities (Hvinden et al, 2019;Murray, 2003;Ungar, 2008).…”

Section: Analytical Framework: Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Among its responsibilities, it coordinates the work and rehabilitation policies for disabled youth. The labour market in Norway is highly regulated, with robust employment protection (Bussi et al, 2019;Hvinden et al, 2019). In addition, comprehensive safety nets, that is, disability pensions, are available for disabled youth (Halvorsen & Hvinden, 2018), and such pensions can be combined with earnings from part-time employment (Unge Funksjonshemmede, 2016).…”

Section: Contrasting Youth Transition Regimes In Norway and Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The first subsection discusses the individual protective factors associated with employability (Angelocci, 2007;King et al, 2003). Research concerning the employment transition of disabled youth has demonstrated that the individual can possess coping, adaptive and transformative capacities to overcome immediate risks, plan for future contingencies and collectively mobilize to take action and alter social arrangements, economic relations and formal institutions (Bussi et al, 2019). However, an individual's agential capabilities are bounded and influenced by external protective factors and context-specific institutions that mediate their opportunities, behaviour and experience (Hvinden et al, 2019;Murray 2003, Ungar, 2008Wright & Masten, 2015).…”

Section: Youth Social Resilience and Employmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, a general trend towards individualization, coupled with increasing labour market flexibilization, has contributed to labour market precariousness among the youth population (Hvinden et al, 2019;Walther, 2006). These youth transitions become even more precarious for disabled youth on account of individual and structural barriers (Bussi et al, 2019;Chhabra, 2020). First, they encounter rigidity within the education system and labour market.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Social Resilience in the Labour Market: Learning from Young Adults with Visual Impairments in Oslo and Delhi

Chhabra¹

2020

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Globally, young adults with visual impairments (YAVI) encounter multiple employment barriers. However, many circumscribe the risk of labour market exclusion and secure gainful employment. This article surfaces protective factors that enable some qualified YAVI from Oslo and Delhi to participate in the labour market. It answers what similar individual and structural protective factors enable YAVI to overcome employment barriers in Oslo and Delhi. The article is theoretically couched in the three dimensions of social resilience linked to the individual’s coping, adaptive and transformative capacities, which are mediated by formal institutions, that is, disability organizations and public employment agencies. This comparative article is based on a qualitative case study wherein 29 YAVI were interviewed. It sparks a much-needed cross-national dialogue within youth studies and disability research to view YAVI as resourceful agents and not passive actors.

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Section: Analytical Framework: Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Contrasting Youth Transition Regimes In Norway and Indiamentioning

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Section: Youth Social Resilience and Employmentmentioning

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Social Resilience in the Labour Market: Learning from Young Adults with Visual Impairments in Oslo and Delhi

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Public employment services: Building social resilience in youth?

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It is contested to what extent public employment services (PES) help build resilience in young unemployed people. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 19 people born in Germany and Norway between 1990 and 1995, the article examines stories about how PES, in two different activation regimes, help young people find meaningful work. The analysis and discussion are carried out within a theoretical framework that combines the capability approach with social resilience literature in a novel way. The findings show that PES are portrayed as being more present in young Germans' lives. The German informants seem to feel undue pressure from PES and they describe differences between personal aims and the “placement priority” of PES. Sanctions imposed by PES were also a much more predominant topic among the German informants. The Norwegian data were dominated by stories about young people in activation programmes who had been demotivated by being trapped in a cycle of programme participation, which did not result in employment. Across the two countries, our data suggest that PES rarely build social resilience: PES provided young people with a means to survive, but rarely helped to build their capacity to overcome their difficult situation. In line with previous research, the stories of young Germans and Norwegians also emphasise the need for a PES that provides tailor‐made services that build on young people's motivation and ambition. The article demonstrates that combining the capability approach with social resilience theory enables a dynamic perspective on the development of people's capabilities.

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Social resilience in facing precarity: young people ‘rising to the occasion’

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Social Resilience in the Labour Market: Learning from Young Adults with Visual Impairments in Oslo and Delhi

Social Resilience in the Labour Market: Learning from Young Adults with Visual Impairments in Oslo and Delhi

Public employment services: Building social resilience in youth?

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