Stories of young people’s social distress who does not study and work: the italian case.
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- Serena Quarta (IT) Università del Salento
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The essay shows the outcomes of a qualitative research, conducted in Italy, on young people who does not study and work (Neet) and who lives in social distress. The young people interviewed turn to Caritas to find a job or to receive economic assistance. The study focuses on those situations where social distress is already evident in the youth’s lives. Through the interview it is analyzed the fundamental stages or the relevant phases in the life of the people interviewed: family background, schooling, the motivation behind the type of school chosen, the motivations behind dropping out of school altogether, work expectations, modes of job search. From their narratives emerge family histories of severe economic and social distress, worsened by life experiences marked by repeated failures. The image of the NEETs in a situation of social distress emerging from the interviews was characterized by an attitude of discouragement, depression and isolation.
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