Realities and Aspirations for Asian Youth

Realities and Aspirations for Asian Youth
Author: Suzanne Naafs
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2020-06-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429560923

This comprehensive volume explores the remarkable expansion of higher education systems and institutions in Asia in recent decades, alongside changing forms of consumerism, mobility and global economic conditions. It demonstrates how recent changes in training, education and employment have sparked new aspirations for possible and desirable livelihoods among the younger generation, while also generating fresh problems and tensions. The authors in this volume critically interrogate the links between education and employment; normative understandings about youth and adulthood; as well as personal, national and regional level aspirations for economic ‘success’. Comparative chapters on Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Singapore and Taiwan illustrate how young people are having to forge innovative pathways into the future, while being confronted with ever increasing insecurities. Offering important insights into the kinds of education and employment landscapes that Asian youth are navigating, reworking or trying to avoid, this collection is an essential reference for students and scholars of Asian Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Development Studies, Human Geography and Youth Studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Children’s Geographies.

Youth Politics in Urban Asia

Youth Politics in Urban Asia
Author: Yi’En Cheng
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2021-07-12
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1000406067

Youth Politics in Urban Asia examines how young people’s political actions in Asia are the product of their urban realities, and at the same time, appreciates that young people are striving to remake these urban spaces in a myriad of tangible and intangible ways. The book explores the ways in which urban development and urban governance in Asia enable or constrain young people’s citizenship, aspirations, and responses to a variety of socioeconomic and political issues in the region. Informed by qualitative and ethnographic approaches, featuring locales ranging from Pune to Shanghai, the chapters broadly address three themes: the variegated ways in which youth politics is constituted and has manifested in Asian cities; the role of cities in shaping and mediating youth politics in Asia; and whether it is possible to conceive of youth politics across urban Asia as diverse and specific, but also structurally entangled. In examining how young people’s political performances and social actions are shaped by, and conversely, shape, Asian urban spaces, this collection advances a deeper understanding of the interplay of youth politics and urban environments. It will be an essential text for scholars and students interested in young people’s politics, urban studies, and social change in Asia. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Space and Polity.

Intersecting Realities

Intersecting Realities
Author: Hak Joon Lee
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2018-11-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532616236

Experiencing racial marginalization in society and pressures for success in family, Asian American Christian young adults must negotiate being socially underpowered, culturally dissonant, and politically marginal. To avoid misunderstandings and conflicts within and without their communities, more often than not they hide their true thoughts and emotions and hesitate to engage in authentic conversations outside their very close-knit circle of friends. In addition, these young adults might not find their church or Christian fellowship to be a safe and hospitable place to openly struggle with all of these sorts of questions, all the while lacking adequate vocabulary or resources to organize their thoughts. This book responds to these spiritual-moral struggles of Asian American young people by theologically addressing the issues that most intimately and immediately affect Asian American youths’ sense of identity—God, race, family, sex, gender, friendship, money, vocation, the model minority myth, and community— uniquely and consistently from the contexts of Asian American young adult life. Its goal is to help young Asian Americans develop a healthy, balanced, organic sense of identity grounded in a fresh and deeper understanding of the Christian faith.

Globalization in India: Contents and Discontents

Globalization in India: Contents and Discontents
Author: Suman Gupta
Publisher: Pearson Education India
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2010-03-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9788131719886

"Globalization in India: Contents and Discontents" reviews the importance of the term globalization through an examination of the social, political, economic and cultural contexts in which globalization exists and influences our everyday lives. With the economics of globalization at the core, the essays chart the contents and discontents of globalization in India."

The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies

The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies
Author: Doris Bühler-Niederberger
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2023-09-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1803822856

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Revising established research, this handbook equips readers with an understanding of the complex interplay between local and global and public and private contexts in the development of young people in Asian countries.

The Future of Rural Youth in Developing Countries Tapping the Potential of Local Value Chains

The Future of Rural Youth in Developing Countries Tapping the Potential of Local Value Chains
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2018-05-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9264298525

Rural youth constitute over half of the youth population in developing countries and will continue to increase in the next 35 years. Without rural transformation and green industrialisation happening fast enough to create more wage employment in a sustainable manner, the vast majority of rural ...

Studying Minority Adolescents

Studying Minority Adolescents
Author: Vonnie C. McLoyd
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 1998-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 113569253X

This volume, which addresses issues at all levels concerning research on minority children and adolescents, will be invaluable to scholars and professionals doing research in psychology, sociology, and education.

Asian and Pacific American Education

Asian and Pacific American Education
Author: Clara C. Park
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2005-12-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1607525089

This research anthology is the third volume in a series sponsored by the Special Interest Group -Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans (SIG-REAPA) of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education. This series explores and explains the lived experiences of Asian and Pacific Americans as they attend schools, build communities and claim their place in U.S. society, and blends the work of well-established Asian American scholars with the voices of emerging researchers and examines in close detail important issues in the Asian/Pacific American community. Scholars and educational practitioners will find this book to be an invaluable and enlightening resource.

Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia

Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia
Author: Mariske Westendorp
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789208963

Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations. Delving into topical issues such as education, social inequality, family pressures, changing values, precarious employment, and political discontent, the book explores how young people are pushing boundaries and imagining their future. In this way, they explore and create the identities of their local and global surroundings.