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The previous chapter described the country. Here, we turn to what it is like to grow up, to move from child to adult, in Saudi Arabia. First, we present our approach which is to treat youth as a transitional life stage.
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Fadaak, T.H., Roberts, K. (2019). Youth. In: Youth in Saudi Arabia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04381-0_2
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