1st Edition

Italian Youth in International Context Belonging, Constraints and Opportunities

260 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Italy is not a country for young people. Why? This book provides a unique and in-depth collection of empirical and theoretical material providing multiple answers to this question whilst investigating the living conditions of young people in Italy today. By bringing together a variety of approaches and methods, the authors of this collection analyze Italian youth through the lenses of... Read more

Introduction: Italian Youth in Context: An Analysis Through Multiple Dimensions

Valentina Cuzzocrea, Barbara Giovanna Bello and Yuri Kazepov

I. ACTIVISM, PARTICIPATION AND CITIZENSHIP

  1. Young People and Politics in Italy in Times of Populism
    Elisa Lello
  2. When Millennials Protest: Youth Activism in Italy
    Massimiliano Andretta and Donatella della Porta
  3. Discourses and Practices of Citizenship Among Young People of Different Ethnic Backgrounds Living in Italy
    Cinzia Albanesi, Elvira Cicognani and Bruna Zani
  4. Strategy, Performance and Gender: An Interactionist Understanding of Young Activists within the Italian LGTB Movement and the Catholic Countermovement
    Anna Lavizzar

    II. WORK, EMPLOYMENT AND CAREERS
  5. The Social Investment Challenge and Young Italians
    Lara Maestripieri
  6. The Synchrony of Temporary Young Workers: Employment Discontinuity, Income Discontinuity, and New Social Inequalities in Italy
    Sonia Bertolini and Valentina Moiso
  7. Young Graduates’ Access to the Labour Market: Cumulative or Trade Off Effects Between Occupational Level, Contracts and Wages
    Marianna Filandri and Tiziana Nazio
  8. When Age is Academically Constructed: The Endless Status of ‘Young Researchers’ in Italy
    Rossella Bozzon, Annalisa Murgia and Caterina Peroni

    III. MOVES, TRANSITIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS
  9. Young Italians: Individualization, Uncertainty and Reconquesting the Future
    Carmen Leccardi
  10. Pathways toward Adulthood in Times of Crisis: Reflexivity, Resources and Agency Among Young Neapolitans
    Antonella Spanò and Markieta Domecka
  11. From South to North: Internal Student Migration in Italy
    Dalit Contini, Federica Cugnata and Andrea Scagni
  12. Becoming an Adult in the New Millennium: How the Transition to Adulthood is Changed
    Monica Santoro

Afterword

Alessandro Cavalli

Ken Roberts

Biography

Valentina Cuzzocrea is assistant professor (tenure track) in sociology at the University of Cagliari (Italy). In 2018, she coedited with B.G. Bello the special issue ‘Making space for youth in Contemporary Italian Studies’ in Journal of Modern Italian Studies.



Barbara Giovanna Bello is postdoc in sociology of law at the University of Milan. She is a trainer in the area of human rights, lawyer and mediator. Her research interests cover intersectionality, antidiscrimination law, legislative effectiveness and youth. In 2018, she co-edited with Valentina Cuzzocrea the special issue 'Making space for youth in Contemporary Italian Studies’ in Journal of Modern Italian Studies.



Yuri Kazepov is professor of International Urban Sociology and Compared Welfare Systems at the University of Vienna (Austria). His fields of interest are urban governance, citizenship and urban quality of life and social policies in comparative perspective.