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Title: | Difficult Debut: Social and Economic Identities of Urban Youth in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe |
Author: | Grant, Miriam |
Year: | 2003 |
Periodical: | Canadian Journal of African Studies |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 2-3 |
Pages: | 411-439 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | identity urban youth urban households Urbanization and Migration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/4107245 |
Abstract: | This article examines social and economic identities of urban youth in Zimbabwe on the basis of interviews conducted in 1998 and 1999 in three high density suburbs - Nkulumane, Luveve, Lobengula - in Bulawayo, the second largest city of Zimbabwe. The data presented derive from 120 household dyad interviews with youth and their parents and guardians.The article aims to tease out some of the linkages between education and skill levels, economic and housing vulnerability, and social relations for youth in the urban arena. It also explores how youth are taking responsibility for their social and economic identities and how household members and, to a lesser extent, the community play a role in this process. In this context, the article finishes with a brief exploration of the idea of the development and nurturance of youth as a significant aspect of social capital. Bibliogr., notes, sum. in French. [ASC Leiden abstract] |