Youth policy in a changing world: from theory to practice

Introduction: Youth policy, youth research and young people changing worlds, changing perspectives? / Marc Molgat / Marina Hahn-Bleibtreu / Eugénie Boudreau

I. Youth Policy development: evidence, ideas and processes

1. Youth policy reviews of the Council of Europe and their impact on national youth policies / Howard Williamson

2. Transitions to adulthood and Canadian youth policy initiatives: some lessons for transitions research / Marc Molgat / Susannah Taylor

3. Public debates and sociological research based on the semantic of autonomy: The case of French young people / Vincenzo Cicchelli

4. A 'Bottom-up' approach to youth development and policy in the United States / David M. Hansen

5. The Ibero-American Youth Co-operation and Integration Plan 2009-2015: strategic opportunities and challenges / Alejo Ramirez

II. Reflecting on the effects of policy

1. The long-terra effects of youth policies in Australia / Johanna Wyn

2. Changes in youth transitions to parenthood in Bulgaria: challenges to youth and family policies / Siyka Kovacheva

3. Transitions and shifts in work attitudes, values and future orientations of young Finns / Helena Helve

4. Migrant and minority youth in the U.S.: rights, belonging, and exclusion / Sunaina Maira

5. Migrant youth in Europe: challenges for integration policies / René Bendit

6. Preparation for work in the trajectories of youth from low socioeconomic backgrounds / Claudia Jacinto y Veronica Millenaar

7. Young migrant workers in China: plausible integration strategies / Ngan-Pun Ngai

III. Re-examining young people's lives today: emerging perspectives for policy

1. Changing time experience, changing biographies and new youth values / Carmen Leccardi

2. Participation among young people in Germany: forms, determinants and trends / Wolfgang Gaiser / Martina Gille

3. Participation: a new place for youth in society and policy / Dina Krauskopf

4. Gender and transitions from school to work: evidence of youth inequality in Argentina and consequences for youth policy / Ana Miranda

5. Youth unemployment: causes and consequences and the role of evidence-based youth policies / Stefan Humpl / Eva Proinger

6. Suicide and ethics: reflections on the reality of young people in Latin America and the Caribbean / Varna Reis

Conclusion: Researchers, research and the development of youth policy: some considerations about the nature of evidence / Marc Molgat / Eugénie Boudreau / Marina Hahn-Bleibtreu

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