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10%OFFKaren R. Foster - Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives: Work, Social Assistance, and Marginalization - 9780774823319 - V9780774823319
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Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives: Work, Social Assistance, and Marginalization

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Description for Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives: Work, Social Assistance, and Marginalization Paperback. Documents the experience of poverty, unemployment, homelessness, and intervention, and their effects on young people's lives and social networks. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 295.

Poverty and unemployment are on the rise among Canadian youth.Clearly something needs to change, but current social-assistance modelsare based on problematic assumptions about the lives and possibletrajectories of "risky" young people.

Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives explores thedifficulties many marginalized young people encounter with the"support system" available to them, as well as the socialforces that push them to the margins in the first place. Drawn frominterviews with forty-five patrons of a youth drop-in centre, thisimportant work resituates the nexus of the problem from theidentification of individual "risk factors" to therecognition of the contradictions and barriers contained in the verysocial-aid structures ... Read more

Intervention is indeed necessary, but more to challenge theprevailing structures that incorrectly presume how youth themselvesinterpret risk, poverty, and, most important of all, their ownpotential.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774823319
SKU
V9780774823319
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About Karen R. Foster
Karen R. Foster is Banting Post-Doctoral Fellow inthe Management Department of the Sobey School of Business at SaintMary's University, Halifax. Dale C. Spencer is anassistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University ofManitoba.

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