What's Wrong with Being Poor? The Problems of Poverty,as Young People Describe them |
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Authors: | Rys Farthing |
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Institution: | Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |
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Abstract: | This article explores how young people living in low‐income neighbourhoods problematise their own lives, using data generated as part of a participatory policy project with five groups of young people, aged 11–21. Three common problems were identified; housing, education and crime, as well as one common silence around their own agency. This silence is perhaps substituted by a focus on collective agency and politics, suggesting that perhaps young people can see poverty as a more collective problem than previous research may highlight. |
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Keywords: | children youth poverty participatory research social policy |
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