"A Problem of Resources": Defining Rural Youth Encounters in Education, Work & Housing.

McGrath, Brian

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ERIC Number: EJ637916

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Publication Date: 2001

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"A Problem of Resources": Defining Rural Youth Encounters in Education, Work & Housing.

McGrath, Brian

Journal of Rural Studies, v17 n4 p481-95 Oct 2001

Interviews and focus groups with rural youth and local policy makers in remote northwest Connemara (Ireland) showed how various social practices and relations encountered in the arenas of education, employment, and housing problematized the choices and opportunities available to young people in transition to adulthood, especially rural youth experiencing negative effects of rural economic restructuring. (Contains 47 references.) (Author/SV)

Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship, Entry Workers, Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Late Adolescents, Postsecondary Education, Rural Youth, Social Environment, Socioeconomic Influences, Youth Employment, Youth Problems

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Ireland

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