ESA Youth and Generation Network Midterm Conference
Date 9 to 12 September 2010
Venue Disley (nr. Manchester) UK
Organisation ESA Youth and Generation Network
Call for Abstracts
The ESA Youth and Generation Network third mid-term conference will address the core challenge facing young people in Europe today as the region confronts a period of extreme economic uncertainty. Young people – like women and migrant workers – are particularly vulnerable in times of recession and market realignment as economic activity contracts and employers reduce investment in training and seek to minimize ‘risk’ in their employment practices. Economic recession affects young people not only in terms of their employment opportunities but has significant impacts also on their educational aspirations, political engagement, social solidarities, leisure and cultural practices, ‘transition’ trajectories and family and emotional relationships.