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Where young people grow up makes a decisive difference to their life chances. Drawing on case studies from ten European cities, this book looks at how the local environment and the services available for young people affect their socialization. What comes to the fore are the local matters. On the one hand, there are experiences of discrimination and marginalization due to distance and isolation, decay and neglect but also related to piecemeal and top-down approaches to youth and social services. On the other, we find signs of positive transformation and drivers of social innovation: community building projects, the revitalization of abandoned places, appreciative approaches to servicing and a whole array of tactics that young people deploy to overcome their daily struggles.



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Qualitative research on deprived urban areas in ten European cities – Youth and social policy – Social inequalities – Social exclusion – Social innovation

Local Matters: How neighbourhoods and services

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    A Hardback by Simon Güntner, Louis Henri Seukwa, Anne Marie Gehrke

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      Publisher: Peter Lang AG
      Publication Date: 25/05/2018
      ISBN13: 9783631736616, 978-3631736616
      ISBN10: 3631736614

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Where young people grow up makes a decisive difference to their life chances. Drawing on case studies from ten European cities, this book looks at how the local environment and the services available for young people affect their socialization. What comes to the fore are the local matters. On the one hand, there are experiences of discrimination and marginalization due to distance and isolation, decay and neglect but also related to piecemeal and top-down approaches to youth and social services. On the other, we find signs of positive transformation and drivers of social innovation: community building projects, the revitalization of abandoned places, appreciative approaches to servicing and a whole array of tactics that young people deploy to overcome their daily struggles.



      Table of Contents

      Qualitative research on deprived urban areas in ten European cities – Youth and social policy – Social inequalities – Social exclusion – Social innovation

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