Naslov
‘Normalised’ Precarity of Youth Status and Migratory Aspirations of Croatian Youth

Autori
Potočnik, Dunja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
ESA RN 30 ‘Youth and Generation’ Midterm Conference 2018: (Being) Young in context. Concepts, contexts and comparisons in youth studies / Stanojević, Dragan - Beograd : European Sociological Association (ESA), 2018, 36-36

Skup
ESA RN 30 "Youth and Generation" Midterm Conference 2018

Mjesto i datum
Beograd, Srbija, 13.09.2018. - 16.09.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Youth, employment, precarity, aspirations, migrations

Sažetak
Uncertainty of life prospects, especially in relation to the educational and employment outcomes, influences all aspects of young people’s lives, from health and wellbeing, to leisure time and political and cultural participation. For the youth in Croatia, 2018 is marked by persistence of economic crisis, ‘normalised’ precarity and unstable prospects, which forces an increasing number of young people to leave the country in a search of better education and employment opportunities. In order to understand position of the young people in Croatia and a degree of their vulnerability, this paper will present data resulting from the Shell Youth Studies, conducted on the nationally representative samples of young people (N=1.500) in 2012 and 2018. Shell Youth Study data include information on the respondents' socio- professional status, professional aspirations, employment trajectories, working conditions, factors of finding and accepting a job, and migrations, enabling a dynamic analysis of young peoples' status, aspirations and vulnerabilities. The quantitative data will be supplemented by the data gathered via focus groups (N=56) that collected insights on previous migratory experiences and current aspirations of young people. The data will show that socio-economic status of young people in Croatia is deteriorating, making young people more prone to long-term migration. Such processes leave the country without valuable human resources, which contributes to further downgrading of its status in comparison to other EU-member states. The analytical framework places the research data inside the analysis of socio- political changes and transformations that Croatian society and economy have undergone since accessing the European Union.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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