Young people's rural multicultures: researching social relationships among youth in rural contexts

Butler, Rose

doi:10.1080/13676261.2019.1657564

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“…It ignores the significant levels of intraregional migration undertaken by Indigenous young people (Walter 2008). Without a more race-critical view, we cannot account for the surge in in-migration among young people from migrant and humanitarian backgrounds where economic revival and complex integrational relationships present other worlds not visible in a homogenous depiction of rural youth mobility (Butler 2020). Indeed, for others, the imperative of place-attachment, filial obligation and belonging via cultural identities rooted in place preclude any such notion of a mobility imperative as a primary driver (Ramzan, Pini, and Bryant 2009).…”

Section: Mobilitiesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Interrogating race, unsettling whiteness: concepts of transitions, enterprise and mobilities in Australian youth studies

Idriss

Butler

Harris

2021

Journal of Youth Studies

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This paper interrogates how three key concepts in youth studies -'transitions', 'the enterprising self' and 'mobilities'have historically centred the experiences of white/Anglo young people in the Australian settler colonial context. A race critical analysis of these major concepts that foregrounds colonialism, racialised migration schemes, multicultural policies and everyday racism has yet to be applied in any substantial way. This approach has the potential to unsettle the colonial and racialised logics inherent within these concepts and examine how they normalise whiteness in Australia. In exploring how these concepts are predominantly applied, critiqued and engaged with, we ask, how does youth studies as a field reproduce Northern colonial systems of knowledge production? We demonstrate the necessity of naming race, racism and processes of racialisation explicitly within the Australian field, not merely to include 'others' but to investigate how dominant conceptual paradigms produce racialised and minoritised Others and mainstream whiteness.

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Section: Mobilitiesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Interrogating race, unsettling whiteness: concepts of transitions, enterprise and mobilities in Australian youth studies

Idriss

Butler

Harris

2021

Journal of Youth Studies

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“…One of the growing challenges in the rural north is the depletion of welfare resources from peripheral communities [11,12], where shrinking and ageing populations place increased pressure on systems that, for example, continue to find it difficult to recruit and retain skilled and professional workers [13]. However, with notable exceptions of (contested) expectations about youth mobility and migration [14][15][16][17], research striving to improve our understanding about what is happening to, and going on in, rural areas has so far been both adult-and elderly-centric, thus largely failing to account for the diverse perspectives of youth [18,19]. To help bridge this knowledge gap, the purpose of this research was to situate young people at the centre of debates about access to and experiences of rural health and social services, while adding to the literature by allowing rurality to 'stand apart' from urban comparison, and by considering a more holistic view on the issue than is typically depicted.…”

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confidence: 99%

Landscapes of care and despair for rural youth – a qualitative study in the northern Swedish ‘periphery’

Jönsson

Goicolea

Christianson

et al. 2020

Int J Equity Health

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Background This study emerges as a response to the lack of youth perspectives when it comes to discussions about access to and experiences of health and social services in rural areas. It subsequently contributes to the literature by positioning young people at the centre of this debate, and by taking a more holistic approach to the topic than is typically the case. Specifically, based on the idea that a good life in proper health for young people may be contingent on notions of care that are bounded up in multi-layered social and spatial environments, the aim of this study was to explore what characterises ‘landscapes of care’ for rural youth. Methods In this qualitative study, the participants included young people and professionals residing in five diverse areas across the northern Swedish ‘peripheral’ inland. Individual interviews (16 in total) and focus group discussions (26 in total) were conducted with 63 youth aged 14–27 years and with 44 professionals operating across sectors such as health centres, school health, integration units, youth clinics and youth clubs. Following an emergent design and using thematic analysis, we developed one main theme, ‘landscapes of care and despair’, comprising the two themes: ‘(dis)connectedness’ and ‘extended support or troubling gaps’. Results The findings illustrate how various health-promoting and potentially harmful aspects acting at structural, organisational and interpersonal levels contributed to dynamic landscapes characterised simultaneously by care and despair. In particular, our study shows how rural youths’ feelings of belongingness to people and places coupled with opportunities to participate in society and access practical and emotional support appear to facilitate their care within rural settings. However, although the results indicate that some in the diverse group of rural youth were cared for and about, a negative picture was painted in parallel. These aspects of despair included youths’ senses of exclusion and marginalisation, degrading attitudes towards them and their problems, as well as recurrent gaps in the provision and practices of care. Conclusions To gain a more comprehensive understanding about the health of rural youth, this study highlights the benefits investigating ‘care-ful’ and ‘uncaring’ aspects bounded up in dynamic and multi-layered landscapes.

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“…Youth and young people are especially front and centre of all socio-economic and developmental activities (Butler, 2019). The United Nations (UN) estimates that about one-fifth of the total population falls under the age of 15–24 years and are called ‘youth’ (Department of Economic and Social Affairs, n.d.).…”

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Educational Status of Female Youth in Nepal: A Foundation for Health and Well-being. Where Should Programmes Focus?

Acharya

Adhikari²,

Kreps

et al. 2020

South Asian Survey

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Youth are important change agents for social, political and economic issues. However, research evidence suggests that many youth, especially females, face many challenges in Nepal in reaching their social potential due to serious problems with educational access and attainment. This study examines the influence of educational attainment on achieving the social potential of Nepalese female youth through a secondary analysis of data from the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey 2016. Results from this analysis show that one out of 10 female youth are illiterate and do not receive a formal education. Socio-demographic variables, such as marital status, caste, place of residence and wealth status were found to be major predictors for literacy status and educational attainment of female youth in Nepal. The findings from this study suggest that special attention should be paid to these critical variables for guiding educational and interventional planning by concerned authorities including stakeholders for improving the social potential, as well as the health and well-being of female youth in Nepal.

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Young people's rural multicultures: researching social relationships among youth in rural contexts

Cited by 11 publications

References 71 publications

Interrogating race, unsettling whiteness: concepts of transitions, enterprise and mobilities in Australian youth studies

Interrogating race, unsettling whiteness: concepts of transitions, enterprise and mobilities in Australian youth studies

Landscapes of care and despair for rural youth – a qualitative study in the northern Swedish ‘periphery’

Educational Status of Female Youth in Nepal: A Foundation for Health and Well-being. Where Should Programmes Focus?

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