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    Rural youth in southern Nigeria: fractured lives and ambitious futures

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    Date
    2021
    Author
    Crossouard, B.
    Dunne, M.
    Szyp, C.
    Madu, T.
    Teeken, B.
    Type
    Journal Article
    Review Status
    Peer Review
    Target Audience
    Scientists
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    This article draws on recent research (2017–20) into the livelihoods and imagined futures of rural youth in four communities in southern Nigeria. The research involved observations, sex-segregated focus group discussions and individual interviews. Taking up insights from sociologists of education and work, our analysis shows how rural youth simultaneously navigated schooling, farming, low-paid vocational work and family obligations in ways that were highly gendered. We show the gulf between youth’s daily lives and their imagined futures, and how their desires for better lives, whether through ‘white-collar’ work or expanded farming activities, often involved moving to more ‘civilised’ or ‘developed’ contexts. Commitment to family nevertheless ran through youth’s narratives, in ways that reflected a deeply gendered, sexual economy. We conclude by highlighting the relevance of a connected sociology that embraces postcolonial and feminist scholarship to advance future studies of rural youth, gender and work in the Global South.
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14407833211042422
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    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/7811
    IITA Authors ORCID
    Bela Teekenhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3150-1532
    Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14407833211042422
    IITA Subjects
    Capacity Development; Gender; Livelihoods; Smallholder Farmers; Socioeconomy
    Agrovoc Terms
    Education; Gender; Nigeria; Rural Youth; Work
    Regions
    Africa; West Africa
    Countries
    Nigeria
    Hubs
    Headquarters and Western Africa Hub
    Journals
    Journal of Sociology
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