scholarly journals You can’t go home again. Independent living in Uruguay in the context of delayed transitions to adulthood

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 103-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Ciganda ◽  
Alain Gagnon
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Coping Mechanism ◽  
Household Surveys ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
Transitions To Adulthood ◽  
Most Significant Change ◽  
The Postponement

This paper analyzes how the transition out of the parental home has changed in the last two and a half decades in Uruguay. Using National Household Surveys from 1981 to 2005, we show that although young people in Uruguay have postponed the formation of new households, considerable gaps still exist between individuals from different socio-economic backgrounds. The most educated have avoided further delays in their emancipation by adopting non-family living arrangements as an increasingly popular alternative. Women have experienced the most significant change, reflecting the movement towards more egalitarian relationships between genders. Although the greatest proportional decline of young people living independently has been experienced in a period of relatively favorable economic conditions, our findings suggest that for a large part of the population, the postponement of the formation of a new household is a coping mechanism rather than a choice.

Returning to the parental home after the Great Recession: a matter of partnership dissolution or unemployment?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Mazzotta ◽  
Lavinia Parisi
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Returning Home ◽  
Two Peaks

Abstract This article provides an analysis of the return of young people to the parental home in 23 European countries. It analyses the effect of the Great Recession, considering the period between 2006 and 2014 and controlling for two key determinants of living arrangements: employment and partnership. The main finding is that the Great Recession has increased the probability of returning home: two peaks are observed in 2009 and 2011, with a percentage of returnees almost double that at the beginning of the period under consideration. Returning home seems more closely linked to partnership than to employment.

Family matters

2018 ◽  
pp. 177-212
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Out Of School

This chapter studies how family legacies affect young people's strategies and decisions around finding work and moving into independent living. Where one comes from has always affected young people's job opportunities and paths out of school. These effects are becoming increasingly polarised both within and across European societies along a variety of dimensions that cannot simply be read off in terms of ethnicity, class, gender, the original nationality of one's parents, or even the society that young people from different backgrounds find themselves in. Understanding the long-term implications of these social divisions is central to knowing which kinds of policy interventions might be most effective in addressing current levels of youth unemployment. The chapter then looks at what happens to young people who leave home and/or set up their own families, and whether the recent recession has increased the risk of them returning to their parental home.

scholarly journals Independent Living Programmes for Improving Outcomes for Young People Leaving the Care System

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Donkoh ◽  
Kristen Underhill ◽  
Paul Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Care System

Village senior centres and the living arrangements of older people in rural China: considerations of health, land, migration and intergenerational support

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 2044-2073 ◽  
Author(s):  
HUIJUN LIU ◽  
KAREN N. EGGLESTON ◽  
YAN MIN
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
Intergenerational Support ◽  
North East

ABSTRACTChina is experiencing rapid urbanisation and population ageing, alongside sometimes contentious rural land consolidation. These on-going social, economic, political and demographic changes are especially problematic for older people in rural areas. In these regions, social and institutional support arrangements are less developed than in urban areas; older people have few options for re-settlement but are resistant to or incapable of adjusting to high-rise apartment living. In 2012–13, we gathered rich qualitative and quantitative data on over 600 older residents in 12 villages under the jurisdiction of City L in north-east coastal China to analyse residents’ living arrangement choices during the village renovation process. We compared villages with and without senior centres to shed light on the correlates of co-residence and independent living. Senior centres play a role in balancing the burden on rural Chinese families resulting from population ageing, smaller families, widespread migration for work, and the rapid urbanisation that is restructuring land rights and social support arrangements.

scholarly journals Without a Safety Net: Precarization Among Young Danish Employees

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mette Lykke Nielsen ◽  
Anne Görlich ◽  
Regine Grytnes ◽  
Johnny Dyreborg
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Political Conditions

Precarisation’ is one of the concepts that has become important in efforts to explain how neoliberal politics and changed economic conditions produce new forms of marginalization and increased insecurity. The aim of this article is to examine how subjectivity is produced among young Danish employees through socio-material processes of precarization at workplaces and employment projects. Drawing on ethnographic observations and qualitative interviews with 35 young employees and young people ‘Neither in Education, Employment or Training’ (NEET), the three case examples show how processes of precarization, rooted in global economic and political conditions, can be understood as situated contextual practices. It is demonstrated how being positioned as an easily replaceable source of labor is shaping young people’s processes of subjectification.

scholarly journals Pensions and Retirement Among Black Union Army Veterans

2010 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 567-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dora L. Costa
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Union Army ◽  
Income Transfer ◽  
Income Transfers ◽  
Retirement Decisions ◽  
Unearned Income

I examine the effects of an unearned income transfer on the retirement rates and living arrangements of black Union Army veterans. I find that blacks were more than twice as responsive as whites to income transfers in their retirement decisions and 6 to 8 times as responsive in their choice of independent living arrangements. My findings have implications for understanding racial differences in rates of retirement and independent living at the beginning of the twentieth century, the rise in retirement prior to 1930, and the subsequent convergence in black-white retirement rates and living arrangements.

Committing to a Relationship

2019 ◽  
pp. 80-102
Author(s):  
Sarah Halpern-Meekin
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Role Theory ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Multiple Role ◽  
Role Transitions ◽  
Transitions To Adulthood

This chapter draws on role theory and the changing cultural norms around relationships to explain how a risk of social poverty accompanies parents’ attempts to build lasting partnerships. These couples want to create and maintain healthy, lasting unions and parent their children together. Often their relationships are young, and so they are figuring out how to successfully occupy these roles. Role theory helps explain the challenges of the multiple role transitions—to adulthood, partnership, and parenthood—these young people are undertaking. This is particularly challenging given today’s relaxed social norms for romantic relationships, called “deinstitutionalization.” Despite these relaxed norms, which can make expectations and roles unclear, the partners often share relationship ideals. However, they often face an array of obstacles—such as finances and their concerns about their partners’ and their own abilities to be good spouses—to achieving these ideals; this increases the likelihood of social poverty in their lives.

Portraits of Joy: The Lived Experiences of Young Adults With Autism Expressed Through Photovoice

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. 7512505155p1-7512505155p1
Author(s):  
Paula J. Thompson-Costello ◽  
Mackenzie Traub ◽  
Eleanor Sweeney ◽  
Mallory Schrier ◽  
Hannah R. Dau
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Adults With Autism ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Young Adults With Autism

Abstract Date Presented Accepted for AOTA INSPIRE 2021 but unable to be presented due to online event limitations. For young adults and adults with autism, the outcomes related to independence, social relationships, employment status, and living arrangements have been poor. This session will share research using PhotoVoice to explore the lived experience of young adults with autism in a community-based independent-living residence. Challenges and opportunities for independence as seen through photos and reflections on the OT role will be shared. Primary Author and Speaker: Paula J. Thompson-Costello Additional Authors and Speakers: Mackenzie Traub, Eleanor Sweeney, Mallory Schrier, and Hannah R. Dau

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