Social Work, Social Welfare, Unemployment and Vulnerability Among Youth

Social Work, Social Welfare, Unemployment and Vulnerability Among Youth critically analyses contemporary welfare state interventions on unemployment and poverty among youth in a context of societal transformation. It also considers how we can develop future knowledge and methods in evolving welfare institutions.

Vibeke Bak Nielsen is Assistant Professor of Social Work in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Aalborg University, Denmark. Petra Malin is a PhD researcher with the Faculty of Social Sciences at The University of Helsinki. Ilse Julkunen is Professor of Social Work in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The University of Helsinki. Lars Uggerhøj is Professor of Social Work in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Aalborg University, Denmark.

1.Introduction. 2.Theorising local variations on social assistance and its constraints: A time geographical perspective. 3.Action strategies among young people on the margins of Danish society. 4.The emergence of productive understandings of sustainable community development in youth responses to a neo-liberal discourse. 5."You get a feeling that they are taking well care of you" - Young people's perception of Ohjaamo in Helsinki. 6.Activation policies and activation in a working-class town over two decades. 7.Using participation to understand and address the anxieties of European youth about unemployment, future work and community. 8.Hearing the voices of the young - dilemmas in research on activation. 9.The voice of young people in shaping future youth policies - towards a paradigm shift.