Youth, Inequality and Social Change in the Global South

This book gathers international and interdisciplinary work on youth studies from the Global South, exploring issues such as continuity and change in youth transitions from education to work; contemporary debates on the impact of mobility, marginalization and violence on young lives; how digital technologies shape youth experiences; and how different institutions, cultures and structures generate a diversity of experiences of what it means to be young. The book is divided into four broad thematic sections: (a) Education, work and social structure; (b) Identity and belonging; (c) Place, mobilities and marginalization; and (d) Power, social conflict and new forms of political participation of youth.



Hernán Cuervo is an Associate Professor in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and Deputy Director of the Youth Research Centre, at the University of Melbourne. His research interests focus on sociology of youth, specifically in relation to youth transitions; rural education and rural young people, focusing on the tension of aspirations and belonging; and theory of justice applied to educational and youth issues.

Ana Miranda is a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and a professor at the University of Buenos Aires. She is the leader of Grammar of Youth Longitudinal Research Program  and run a postgraduate program on youth in Latin America in FLACSO Argentina.  Her research and teaching are related to youth, education, inequality and labour. She is currently the Deputy President of RC 34 of the International Sociology Association (ISA) for the period 2018-2022.