Publications:

Youth Individual Agency (Micro-Level)

• Who Are Lebanese Youth? A Segmentation-Based Approach to Understanding Youth and Youth's Attitudes in Lebanon

  April 06, 2017

  by Mohammad Diab, Sami Atallah and Mona Harb

  Lebanese youth are often constructed through fragmented lenses and policies that lack a holistic, interdisciplinary and integrated understanding of their complex, dynamic and highly differentiated livelihoods. In this paper, we argue ...

• Linking Social Capital: Political Confidence among Youth in Occupied Palestine [the West Bank and Gaza Strip]

  April 12, 2017

  by Rita Giacaman, Suzan Mitwalli and Weeam Hammoudeh

  This is a cross-sectional study of a representative sample of 18 to 29 years old Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, aiming to uncover youth reports on feelings of exclusion/inclusion. The study reveals low levels of linki...

• Education, Income and the Uncertainty of Being Young in Egypt

  May 03, 2017

  by Nadine Sika

  This paper analyses the extent to which young people’s background – gender, education and income – influences their life chances. Based on a national sample survey of 1,200 young people conducted in April 2016, the research found that...

• Turning Political Activism into Humanitarian Engagement: Transitional Careers of Young Syrians in Lebanon

  May 03, 2017

  by Léo Fourn

  After five years of conflict, many young Syrians have fled their country to find refuge in neighbouring countries and beyond. More than one million Syrians have registered as refugees in Lebanon since 2011. Young refugees are facing m...

• Being a NEET in Turkey: Determinants and Consequences

  May 22, 2017

  by Emre Erdoğan Nurhan Yentürk Ali, Alper Akyüz, Yörük Kurtaran, Laden Yurttagüler, Kenan Dursun and Burcu Oy

  For a young person, unemployment is one of the most important obstacles to enjoying life. However, recent research has shown that even willingness to work, which forms a key element in unemployment calculations, is not uniformly distr...

• The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM): Transnational Politics, Inter/national Frameworks and Intersectional Alliances

  May 22, 2017

  by Ruba Salih, Lynn Welchman and Elena Zambelli

  This study illustrates findings from research conducted between 2015-16 on a transnational organization operating across various Arab and western countries: the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM). It argues that the PYM is reformulating...

• Explaining Youth Participation and Non-Participation in Morocco

  May 31, 2017

  by Saloua Zerhouni

  Based on both recent statistics from a national survey and qualitative interviews, the paper analyses the level and modalities of youth participation in Morocco’s public sphere. While individual characteristics such as education, gend...

• An Intersectional Analysis of the Micro-level Factors of Youth Economic and Political Exclusion/Inclusion in the South and East Mediterranean (SEM) Region

  June 12, 2017

  by Ruba Salih, Lynn Welchman and Elena Zambelli

  This report contains a discussion of how an analysis of the interplay of gender, class and other individual and social differences can shed a light on the micro-level dynamics of youth civic and political engagement in the countries o...