Realities and Aspirations for Asian Youth
Realities and Aspirations for Asian Youth

Author: Suzanne Naafs

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-06-09

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0429560923

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This comprehensive volume explores the remarkable expansion of higher education systems and institutions in Asia in recent decades, alongside changing forms of consumerism, mobility and global economic conditions. It demonstrates how recent changes in training, education and employment have sparked new aspirations for possible and desirable livelihoods among the younger generation, while also generating fresh problems and tensions. The authors in this volume critically interrogate the links between education and employment; normative understandings about youth and adulthood; as well as personal, national and regional level aspirations for economic ‘success’. Comparative chapters on Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Singapore and Taiwan illustrate how young people are having to forge innovative pathways into the future, while being confronted with ever increasing insecurities. Offering important insights into the kinds of education and employment landscapes that Asian youth are navigating, reworking or trying to avoid, this collection is an essential reference for students and scholars of Asian Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Development Studies, Human Geography and Youth Studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Children’s Geographies.

Youth Politics in Urban Asia
Youth Politics in Urban Asia

Author: Yi’En Cheng

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-07-12

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1000406067

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Youth Politics in Urban Asia examines how young people’s political actions in Asia are the product of their urban realities, and at the same time, appreciates that young people are striving to remake these urban spaces in a myriad of tangible and intangible ways. The book explores the ways in which urban development and urban governance in Asia enable or constrain young people’s citizenship, aspirations, and responses to a variety of socioeconomic and political issues in the region. Informed by qualitative and ethnographic approaches, featuring locales ranging from Pune to Shanghai, the chapters broadly address three themes: the variegated ways in which youth politics is constituted and has manifested in Asian cities; the role of cities in shaping and mediating youth politics in Asia; and whether it is possible to conceive of youth politics across urban Asia as diverse and specific, but also structurally entangled. In examining how young people’s political performances and social actions are shaped by, and conversely, shape, Asian urban spaces, this collection advances a deeper understanding of the interplay of youth politics and urban environments. It will be an essential text for scholars and students interested in young people’s politics, urban studies, and social change in Asia. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Space and Polity.

Globalization in India: Contents and Discontents
Globalization in India: Contents and Discontents

Author: Suman Gupta

Publisher: Pearson Education India

Published: 2010-03-30

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9788131719886

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"Globalization in India: Contents and Discontents" reviews the importance of the term globalization through an examination of the social, political, economic and cultural contexts in which globalization exists and influences our everyday lives. With the economics of globalization at the core, the essays chart the contents and discontents of globalization in India."

The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies
The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies

Author: Doris Bühler-Niederberger

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2023-09-29

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1803822856

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The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Revising established research, this handbook equips readers with an understanding of the complex interplay between local and global and public and private contexts in the development of young people in Asian countries.

The Future of Rural Youth in Developing Countries Tapping the Potential of Local Value Chains
The Future of Rural Youth in Developing Countries Tapping the Potential of Local Value Chains

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2018-05-30

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9264298525

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Rural youth constitute over half of the youth population in developing countries and will continue to increase in the next 35 years. Without rural transformation and green industrialisation happening fast enough to create more wage employment in a sustainable manner, the vast majority of rural ...

Studying Minority Adolescents
Studying Minority Adolescents

Author: Vonnie C. McLoyd

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1998-07

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 113569253X

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This volume, which addresses issues at all levels concerning research on minority children and adolescents, will be invaluable to scholars and professionals doing research in psychology, sociology, and education.

Asian and Pacific American Education
Asian and Pacific American Education

Author: Clara C. Park

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2005-12-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1607525089

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This research anthology is the third volume in a series sponsored by the Special Interest Group -Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans (SIG-REAPA) of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education. This series explores and explains the lived experiences of Asian and Pacific Americans as they attend schools, build communities and claim their place in U.S. society, and blends the work of well-established Asian American scholars with the voices of emerging researchers and examines in close detail important issues in the Asian/Pacific American community. Scholars and educational practitioners will find this book to be an invaluable and enlightening resource.

South Asian American Experiences in Schools
South Asian American Experiences in Schools

Author: Punita Chhabra Rice

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-08-07

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1793608091

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This book tells the stories of South Asian Americans in K-12 schools, through a look at their perceptions, experiences, and support needs in school, especially in context of teacher cultural proficiency and belief in “the model minority myth” (the perception of Asians as the perfect minority). This book mixes stories, quotes, and anecdotes with quantitative research in order to paint a multifaceted picture of the varied and complex experiences of Asian Americans in schools. The book examines existing scholarly and popular literature to offer deeper context, and to provide guidance for how educators, policymakers, and the community might improve experiences for South Asian American, and all students, in increasingly diverse schools.

Media in Asia
Media in Asia

Author: Youna Kim

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-05-15

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1000584356

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This book is an upper-level student source book for contemporary approaches to media studies in Asia, which will appeal across a wide range of social sciences and humanities subjects including media and communication studies, Asian studies, cultural studies, sociology and anthropology. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives from media and communications, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology and Asian studies, it provides an empirically rich and stimulating tour of key areas of study. The book combines theoretical perspectives with grounded case studies in one up-to-date and accessible volume, going beyond the standard Euro-American view of the evolving and complex dynamics of the media today.