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Young people and contradictions of inclusion: Towards Integrated Transition Policies in Europe

Andreu Lopez Blasco, Wallace McNeish, and Andreas Walther

Abstract

Using a biographical approach, this book integrates the perspectives of social policy, sociology, youth and transition research, and education and labour-market research. It compares policy and practice in a variety of European national contexts and explores the dilemmas of policies for the inclusion of young people, suggesting that a holistic Integrated Transition Policy, which puts young people's subjective experience at its centre, can provide an alternative to current policies and practice.

Keywords: biographical approach, social policy, youth research, education research, labour market, European policy, European practice, national contexts, youth inclusion, Integrated Transition Policy

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2003 Print ISBN-13: 9781861345547
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781861345547.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Andreu Lopez Blasco, editor

Wallace McNeish, editor

Andreas Walther, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

List of figures and tables

Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

One Introduction: young people and contradictions of inclusion

Andreas Walther, and Wallace McNeish

Part One: Risks and contradictions in young people's transitions to work

Two Yo-yo transitions and misleading trajectories: towards Integrated Transition Policies for young adults in Europe

Manuela du Bois-Reymond, and Andreu López Blasco

Three Youth unemployment and the risk of social exclusion: comparative analysis of qualitative data

Thomas Kieselbach

Part Two: Young people and transition policies in Europe

Four Transition policies: strategy of actors and employment policies for young people in Europe

Lorenzo Cachón Rodríguez

Five The European strategy for youth employment: a discursive analysis

Amparo Serrano Pascual

Six State policy and youth unemployment in the EU: rights, responsibilities and lifelong learning

Wallace McNeish, and Patricia Loncle

Seven Transitional Labour Markets and training: rebalancing flexibility and security for lifelong learning

Harm van Lieshout, and Ton Wilthagen

Eight The third sector: ghetto for the disadvantaged or springboard toward integration?

Paul Burgess

Nine The art of learning: empowerment through performing arts

Steven Miles

Part Three: Dilemmas and perspectives of Integrated Transition Policies

Ten Empowerment or ‘cooling out’? Dilemmas and contradictions of Integrated Transition Policies1

Andreas Walther

Eleven Competence and employability

Sven Mørch, and Barbara E. Stalder

Twelve Of roofs and knives: the dilemmas of recognising informal learning

José Machado Pais, and Axel Pohl

Thirteen Flexibility and security: the supposed dilemma of transition policies

Barbara Stauber, Siyka Kovacheva, and Harm van Lieshout

Fourteen ‘Disadvantage’: transition policies between social construction and the needs of vulnerable youth

René Bendit, and Dermot Stokes

End Matter

Index

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