NEET youth : from the concept to their life trajectories in pandemics

Maria Juliana Rincon Coronado, ; Sonia Bibiana Rojas Wilches, ; Didier Augusto Alejo Barrera, ; Tania Meneses Cabrera, ; Alexandra Agudelo Ramírez, ; Leidy Mariam Zuluaga Cruz, ; Claudia Rondón Bohórquez, ; Jaime Enrique Peña Trujillo, ; Sonia Johanna Rodríguez Castillo, ; Luz Adriana Tirado Velandia,

Synopsis

In the following pages the reader will find testimonies, statistics, a study of indicators, press analysis, sociological and demographic comprehensions; as an attempt to understand a growing social phenomenon in Colombia, the difficulty that young people have to stay in formal education and employment, beyond a need to contribute to the formal economy and sustain the productive apparatus; we listened to young people in different cities of the country, we contrasted their testimonies with those of the press and other media, we compared with the data of the National Administrative Department of Statistics and page after page we try to give an updated and sensitive panorama that starts from a stigmatizing concept to discover a sum of precariousness and complex conditions that young people are going through. We also mention the desires for transformation, the contradictions and emotions that are part of their vital dynamics. Through this text, we seek to present the results of the characterization of NEET youth in Colombia, in the context of the pandemic. Sociodemographic aspects and felt social needs of this population segment (between 14 and 28 years old) show a great diversity and intersectional crossings with variables such as gender, socioeconomic status, race, geographic location, among others. We hope this document will contribute to the orientation of public policies and strategies for the care of young people.

Keywords: NEET youth, life trajectories, felt human needs, archeology of the concept, characterization, unemployment, unschooling, stereotypes, biases

Chapters

  • Capítulo 1. El contexto de la investigación: juventud, situación NINI y pandemia por el COVID-19
  • Capítulo 2. Arqueología del concepto “jóvenes NINI”
  • Capítulo 3. Caracterización de los jóvenes NINI en Colombia en el marco de la pandemia por COVID-19 : los contextos territoriales
  • Capítulo 4. Trayectorias de vida en tiempos pandémicos
Jóvenes Nini

ISBN-13 (15)

978-958-651-927-4

How to Cite

Rincon Coronado, M. J., Rojas Wilches, S. B., Alejo Barrera, D. A., Meneses Cabrera, T., Agudelo Ramírez, A., Zuluaga Cruz, L. M., Rondón Bohórquez, C., Peña Trujillo, J. E., Rodríguez Castillo, S. J., & Tirado Velandia, L. A. (2023). NEET youth: from the concept to their life trajectories in pandemics. Sello Editorial UNAD. https://doi.org/10.22490/9789586519274

Categories Research Book

Published

December 19, 2023