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The 5th Journal of Youth Studies International Conference

The Making and Remaking of the British Elite

Negotiating class based tensions and the politics of friendship

Presents work from Sam Kirwan's forthcoming book

Parents shape their children’s outcomes through multiple avenues. Parental human and financial capital are well known to influence children’s occupational attainment by enabling investments in educ...

A book for teaching and learning about subculture as a sociological concept

Subculture in the 21st Century is a key text for all students of sociology and cultural studies. Drawing on case studies and supported by a range of resources on its dedicated companion website, it is...

This panel shares some of the findings of the New Possibilities project

With parents remaining in China and their children in the United States, thousands of miles away, the transnational arrangement of ‘parachuting’ entails Chinese adolescents attending high school ab...

Volume 28, Issue 5 of Journal of Youth Studies

The abstract culture is a youth subculture characterized by the incomprehensible, vulgar, and even abusive presentations of live streamers in China. Through online viewers’ second creation, remixin...

While existing studies have focused on the role of return-home youths and macro-level factors (such as policies and local support) in urban-rural migration, this study uses participatory action res...

As everyday life has been digitalised, more and more of the things we do, like and consume are being automated.

The NEET (Not in Employment, Education, or Training) concept has been studied globally but has received limited attention in China. This limited attention may be attributed to an unstable labour ma...

Although a significant number of care experienced parents have their own children taken into care, most go on to parent without intervention from services, suggesting a complex relationship between...

This article examines how gendered perceptions of interest affect young people's engagement in political participation, including ‘Do-It-Ourselves Politics’. Interest in politics has long been esta...

This research examines student, teacher and administrator experiences of tech-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) in secondary schools in Ontario, Canada. TFSV includes a range of acts where digital...

Utilising pre-existing friendships between participants to create an environment of safety and trust when researching with young people aligns well with ethics of care and reciprocity underpinning ...

The increasing number of youths who are not employed or studying – that is, youth not in education, employment, or training (NEET) – has been one of the most pressing issues for welfare societies i...

Volume 28, Issue 4 of Journal of Youth Studies

This study theorizes the global rise of the alt-right through the concepts of the simultaneity of non-simultaneity and the Silent Counter-Revolution, using South Korea's ‘Idaenam’ phenomenon as a c...

Young people in southern European countries experience particularly difficult transitions between training and employment. In these countries, leaving aside training and work experience, the suppor...

Although Brazil as a whole is a diverse society, with its youth living in a variety of situations, its disadvantaged urban communities have become sites of organised crime, drug trafficking and pol...

Literature on emerging adulthood often centres on the ways in which individuals navigate youth transitions to assert their place in the world as independent adults, where a key marker of achieving ...

In the Nordic countries, research demonstrates that younger generations generally meet democratic expectations regarding knowledge, trust in the political system, and citizenship education. However...

This paper explores the use of humour among unaccompanied young migrants and refugees to assert agency and subvert authority in the face of a hostile reception regime. It explores how comedy manife...

This study examines the FRONTLINE documentary Growing Up Poor in America, which sheds light on the stories of three young people from rural and suburban Ohio during the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizi...

The Newcastle Youth Studies Centre is a collaborative group of researchers who work with young people to understand their lives, and the social, cultural, and economic forces they are living in.Too of...

Documentary Podcast · Series · Young people are often demonised on the street, but what happens if we look beyond the stereotypes and listen to what they can teach us instead? Follow criminologist Pro...

This paper examines the complex dynamics of youth agency and resilience in violent contexts based on a qualitative longitudinal analysis of young people’s trajectories in a Brazilian slum neighbour...

This study explores the lived experiences of Greek emerging adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on perceived psychoemotional and social impacts and future outlooks. Using a qualitative lo...

Inspired by the ‘subculture/post-subculture’ debate in the Journal of Youth Studies, the paper offers a quantitative exploration of two central ‘post-subcultural’ critiques of the subcultural theor...

This study analyzes the relationship between the 2020–2022 armed conflict in Northern Ethiopia and the education enrollment and employment status among young people. We use quantitative data from 1...

This paper presents data on pay, housing and pension prospects which shows that an inter-generation decline in life chances that had begun by the 1980s is continuing in the 2020s. A difference is t...

This paper reports on research into a community development approach to supporting young carers, adopted in one city in Scotland (UK) to increase the numbers of ‘identified’ young carers, and to in...

There has been a rise globally of concern among young people with issues of survival, life, and viability. This paper introduces the Special Issue on Viable Youth Futures at the Journal of Youth St...

Hikikomori youths who seclude themselves at home have been observed outside Japan, raising awareness globally. Drawing on insights from Honneth’s theory of recognition, this article examines the se...

Amidst increasing livelihood precarity, many of Indonesia’s rural youth continue to hope for a better future. This article examines five life stories of young people living through insecure livelih...

Emerging from a larger critical ethnography on the culture and context of gender in the New Orleans public charter school system broadly, this exploratory study describes the interconnections betwe...