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As part of social policy regimes, terms such as ‘disengaged’, ‘disadvantaged’, and ‘at-risk’ are used to identify and delineate different populations of young people according to their personal characteristics, relationship to social institutions, and possible educational and labour market futures.
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Farrugia, D., Smyth, J., Harrison, T. (2015). ‘Vulnerable’, ‘At-Risk’, ‘Disengaged’. In: Riele, K.t., Gorur, R. (eds) Interrogating Conceptions of “Vulnerable Youth” in Theory, Policy and Practice. Innovations and Controversies: Interrogating Educational Change. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-121-2_11
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