Marginalisation: on the fringe of the periphery — Youth as a risky life stage?

Heggen, Kåre

doi:10.1177/110330880000800203

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“…Earlier research concerning young people in rural areas and risk is limited, and the existing studies focus on conditions of growing up and marginalisation rather than the sense-making of risk in late modernity (see e.g. Heggen, 2000, Morse Dunkley, 2004, Nairn et al, 2003.…”

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Young people making sense of risk

Wall

Olofsson

2008

YOUNG

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By launching the term 'sense-making', our intention is to deepen the understanding of young people and risk. Seven focus group interviews were made in 2004/05, including three reference interviews with adults: four in an urban area (Greater Stockholm) and three in a rural area (the county of Jämtland). The results indicate that sense-making of risk is a fruitful way of capturing hidden heterogeneity among young people with similar risk perceptions. Young people in rural areas tend to make sense of risk according to us-here, a collectivistic and embedded view of risk, while young people in urban areas have an individualistic and disembedded view, expressed according to me-there or me-where I am. This can be interpreted as such that young people's sense-making of risk is based in different modernities, entangled with each other through e.g. global mass communication systems.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Young people making sense of risk

Wall

Olofsson

2008

YOUNG

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“…However, such definition is not only limited, but also tends to omit important sociocultural and political aspects of marginalised young people in resource constrained environments. In this respect, this study draws on Heggen's (2000) view on youth marginalisation to understand the concept of marginalisation of young people in Sierra Leone. Heggen argues that youths are considered to be marginalised only when their position in the society is weak and "limit their access to economic, social and political resources" (2000, p. 48).…”

Section: Youth Marginalisationmentioning

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Exploring Mobile Internet Use Among Marginalised Young People in Post‐Conflict Sierra Leone

Sam

2015

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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Although the use of mobile internet is emerging as a new area of exploration for accessing the impact of mobile telephony on people in developing countries, study on how it is adopted and utilised in post-conflict context is rare. This paper draws upon domestication theory and ethnographic approach to explore the adoption, popularity and use of mobile internet by marginalised young people in post-conflict Sierra Leone. It argues that such an inquiry is important for understanding how the behavioural patterns of marginalised young people are shaped by the technology that is available to them, and equally how they shape technology to respond to their needs. While the findings reveal an increasing popularity and usage of mobile internet among marginalised young people to build communication networks, access information and entertainment content; some of the users are confronted with multiple impediments that mitigate their capabilities to access and use mobile internet productively. Notable examples of such barriers include high cost of internet enabled mobile phone, low level ICT and literacy skills and limited knowledge in the productive use of mobile internet. The paper concludes that if the potential of mobile internet is to be exploited for productive livelihood improvement, then, there is a need to respond appropriately to these challenges by providing cheaper and durable internet enabled mobile phones, create awareness and facilitate training to improve on the literacy and ICT skills of the users.

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“…This rather strong migration alacrity has been noticed by the media, politicians and researchers. Many researchers have already written about young people living in remote areas (e.g., Waara, 1996Waara, & 1998Dahlstr6m, 1996;Soininen, 1998Soininen, & 2002Paulgaard, 1999;Viinamdki, 1999;Kurikka, 2000;Heggen, 2000;'Viborg, 2001a'Viborg, & 2001b and they have all arrived at the same conclusions: living in remote areas is not appealing to young people or it is found to be problematic in many senses. This article offers a new viewpoint in this continuum of discussion of the lives of young people in remote areas by showing how young people's opinions about their possibilities to have an ideal life are constructed.…”

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Ideal life and proud feelings in the north

Tuhkunen¹

2002

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This article analyses the kind of images young people have of their living environments. It has two main goals: first, to describe young people's ideas about their possibilities to have an ideal life in their home district; and secondly, to depict young people's proud feelings about their home district. Investigating these issues may provide some answers regarding the high rates of migration willingness among Barents rural young people. This rather strong migration alacrity has been noticed by the media, politicians and researchers. Many researchers have already written about young people living in they have all arrived at the same conclusions: living in remote areas is not appealing to young people or it is found to be problematic in many senses. This article offers a new viewpoint in this continuum of discussion of the lives of young people in remote areas by showing how young people's opinions about their possibilities to have an ideal life are constructed. ' This issue is worth an essay since, for example, the results of a recent report (Soininen, 2002) show that migration willingness is a dominant tendency among young people in the Barents region. In this report the portion of respondents planning to migrate was relatively high: 73% of all respondents in the survey said that they have migration plans. Migration alacrity is high throughout the data, but there are some differences in migration readiness in different countries. The strongest desire to migrate can be found among Finnish and Swedish respondents. In Finland 81 % of all respondents plan to move out of their home region; in Sweden, 82%. Russia and Norway meet at a lower level; about 67% of those surveyed from each of these countries have migration plans (Soininen, 2002). These numbers clearly reflect young people's attitudes and images towards their living environment in the North.It can be assumed based on the high migration willingness percentages that young people's images of their living environment as a potential place for an ideal life are rather negative and full of notions about limited conditions. However, at the same time there are young people who are optimistic toward the future and proud of their living environment. An important problem linked with local images and migration willingness is also the question of young people's pride in their home district. A great deal of the respondents say that they are proud of their home district. On this basis it would be natural to surmise that young people would like to live in the area they

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Marginalisation: on the fringe of the periphery — Youth as a risky life stage?

Cited by 22 publications

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Young people making sense of risk

Young people making sense of risk

Exploring Mobile Internet Use Among Marginalised Young People in Post‐Conflict Sierra Leone

Ideal life and proud feelings in the north

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