Young People and Contradictions of Inclusion: Towards Integrated Transition Policies in Europe

by Andreu Lopez Blasco (Editor), Andreas Walther (Editor), Wallace McNeish (Editor)

Overview

Young people and contradictions of inclusion critically assesses policies addressing young people's transitions from school to employment. It presents and discusses the findings of seven EU-funded projects involving 13 countries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781861345240
Publisher:	Policy Press at the Univ of Bristol
Publication date:	12/22/2003
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.16(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Andreu López Blasco, AREA (Asociacion Regional y Europea de Analisis), Wallace McNeish, Sociology Department, School of Social and Health Sciences, University of Abertay Dundee and Andreas Walther, IRIS (Institute for Regional Innovation and Social Research)

Table of Contents

	List of figures and tables	v
	Acknowledgements	vi
	Notes on contributors	viii
1	Introduction: young people and contradictions of inclusion	1
Part 1	Risks and contradictions in young people's transitions to work	17
2	Yo-yo transitions and misleading trajectories: towards Integrated Transition Policies for young adults in Europe	19
3	Youth unemployment and the risk of social exclusion: comparative analysis of qualitative data	43
Part 2	Young people and transition policies in Europe	65
4	Transition policies: strategy of actors and employment policies for young people in Europe	67
5	The European strategy for youth employment: a discursive analysis	85
6	State policy and youth unemployment in the EU: rights, responsibilities and lifelong learning	105
7	Transitional Labour Markets and training: rebalancing flexibility and security for lifelong learning	127
8	The third sector: ghetto for the disadvantaged or springboard toward integration?	145
9	The art of learning: empowerment through performing arts	163
Part 3	Dilemmas and perspectives of Integrated Transition Policies	181
10	Empowerment or 'cooling out'? Dilemmas and contradictions of Integrated Transition Policies	183
11	Competence and employability	205
12	Of roofs and knives: the dilemmas of recognising informal learning	223
13	Flexibility and security: the supposed dilemma of transition policies	243
14	'Disadvantage': transition policies between social construction and the needs of vulnerable youth	261
	Index	283