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Youth Marginality in Britain

Contemporary Studies of Austerity

Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Bristol University Press, United Kingdom
Imprint: Policy Press
Published: 28th Jun 2017
Dimensions: w 164mm h 236mm d 17mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN-10: 1447330544
ISBN-13: 9781447330547
Barcode No: 9781447330547
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Tabloid headlines such as 'Anti-social Feral Youth,' 'Vile Products of Welfare in the UK' and 'One in Four Adolescents is a Criminal' have in recent years obscured understanding of what social justice means for young people and how they experience it. Youth marginality in Britain offers a new perspective by promoting young people's voices and understanding the agency behind their actions. It explores different forms of social marginalisation within media, culture and society, focusing on how young people experience social discrimination at a personal and collective level. This collection from a wide range of expert contributors showcases contemporary research on multiple youth deprivation of personal isolation, social hardship, gender and ethnic discrimination and social stigma. With a foreword from Robert MacDonald, it explores the intersection of race, gender, class, asylum seeker status and care leavers in Britain, placing them in the broader context of austerity, poverty and inequality to highlight both change and continuity within young people's social and cultural identities. This timely contribution to debates concerning youth austerity in Britain is suitable for students across youth studies, sociology, education, criminology, youth work and social policy.

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"This book is a welcome contribution to the rapidly growing scholarly field exploring the issues and processes of marginalisation, poverty, and exclusion in relation to children and young people - as well as to childhood and youth as concepts, categories, and life stages." Children's Geographies "This timely contribution to debates around youth austerity in Britain is a must read for students or academics concerned with how youth is understood and lived in contemporary society" Lisa Russell, University of Huddersfield "Brings new theoretical and empirical insights into the analysis of youth marginality.... provides a critical voice around the concept of `marginality' creating innovative and radical alternative understandings of the ways it operates.... A must read for scholars and students interested in youth sociology and youth policy" Alan France, University of Auckland