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Marginalized Youth: Age Discrimination as a Fundamental Inequality

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Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Child poverty; Generation precaire; Participation; Precarious work; School dropouts; Young unemployed; Youth discrimination

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Youth and marginalization can be interpreted mainly in three perspectives: Being young is a discrimination by itself. Young people who have got a significant higher exposure to risk factors (dropping out of school, health problems, unemployment, and sexual exploitation) also face barriers of society (discrimination, no or fewer chances for cultural or social participation, harder access to health care, consulting as well as legal assistance). Youth is mostly defined as the time of life between 14 and 25 years of age, sometimes even 30 or 35. The approach to being part of the youth population is mostly spontaneous. Being young as well may be a marginalization as politics mostly does not care about youth issues. Even if children and younger people are better off in contemporary societies there are still millions far away from any improvement of...

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  1. Diploma European Colleges, Hannover, Deutschland

    Martin Gloger

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Amanda Lange Salvia

  5. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  6. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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    Golda A. Edwin

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Gloger, M. (2022). Marginalized Youth: Age Discrimination as a Fundamental Inequality. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71066-2_41-1

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