Power2Youth aims at offering a critical understanding of youth in the South East Mediterranean (SEM) region through a comprehensive interdisciplinary and multi-level approach. By combining the economic, political and socio-cultural spheres and a macro (policy/institutional), meso (organizational) and micro (individual) level analysis, Power2Youth will explore the root causes and complex dynamics of the processes of youth exclusion and inclusion in the labour market and civic/political life, while investigating the potentially transformative effect of youth agency. The project has a cross-national comparative design with the case studies of Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Occupied Palestinian Territories and Turkey.
Introduction
1. Understanding Relevant Concepts
Conceptualizing Youth
Youth Exclusion and inclusion
Youth and Social Change
2. A Comprehensive Analytical Approach to the Understanding of Youth
Macro-level Analysis (policy/institutional factors of youth exclusion/inclusion)
Meso-level Analysis (organizational factors of youth exclusion/inclusion and youth collective agency)
Micro-level Analysis (individual factors of youth exclusion/inclusion and youth individual agency)
3. General Methodology
(a) Multi-level analysis
(b) A gender sensitive and socially differentiated approach
(c) Quantitative and qualitative methods
(d) A comparative approach
(e) Young people involved in academic research and policy debates
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