Transitions in the Post-pandemic COVID-19 Context: Building Youth Policies in the Global South

Miranda, Ana; Alfredo, Miguel

doi:10.1007/s43151-022-00082-8

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“…Hence, in our qualitative analysis, there is a greater number of comments from women and young adults with a university qualification, as they represent a larger proportion of our sample. Relatedly, the voices of men, young adults without a university qualification and renters are under‐represented in this paper's results (see Churchill & Khan, 2021; Furlong et al, 2018; Miranda & Alfredo, 2022; for existing research on work precarity for this more disadvantaged cohort).…”

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“…Drawing on this finding, we propose the use of liminality to conceptualise a long‐term state of in‐betweenness in which the impermanence of precarity paradoxically becomes a near‐permanent state, and to make visible both the structural and subjective dimensions of this experience. Building on this proposal, we contend that liminal and precarious experiences of employment need to be taken seriously in the design and implementation of policy, as they reflect the lives realities of an increasing proportion of youth and young adults (Churchill & Khan, 2021; Miranda & Alfredo, 2022). In particular, our findings dovetail with research on underemployment that has put forward definitions that encompass contract type, conditions and the relationship of employment to one's qualifications (for review, see Churchill & Khan, 2021), rather than focussing solely on whether respondents desire additional hours of paid work (for instance, see Chambers et al, 2021).…”

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Liminality, COVID‐19 and the long crisis of young adults' employment

Cuervo

Maire

Cook

et al. 2023

Aust J Social Issues

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The COVID‐19 crisis has brought into sharp relief the precarious employment situation of young people, precipitating a raft of academic and public claims of an unprecedented crisis that has disrupted young lives. Our study contributes to research on youth labour and transitions with new longitudinal empirical analysis. Our analysis challenges the “newness” of the precarity highlighted by COVID‐19, focussing on employment. It draws on longitudinal mixed methods data from a research project tracking the transition to adulthood of young Australians. We make use of the concept of liminality to analyse the labour patterns for this group of young adults for the past 5 years. While we acknowledge the impact of COVID‐19 on young people's lives, our analysis reveals a precarisation of labour conditions for a significant proportion of participants that precedes the pandemic crisis. We conclude that the tendency in some youth research and in public discourse, to depict contemporary events as heralding “new” crises for young people, obscures the deeper structural arrangements that continually position the young to take the brunt of social and economic policies.

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Liminality, COVID‐19 and the long crisis of young adults' employment

Cuervo

Maire

Cook

et al. 2023

Aust J Social Issues

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“…Similarly, other colleagues concentrated on the intersection of regional places and gender to discuss how vulnerability can be a precondition for resistance and agency in young women’s lives (te Riele and Shelley 2021 ). Two important contributions sought to provide theoretical and policy guidelines to map the construction of research and debate agendas from the Global South that could help to redress the Eurocentric approach to youth sociology (see Miranda and Alfredo 2022 ; Swartz 2022 ).…”

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