A New Youth?

Contents: Foreword, Andy Furlong; Introduction, Carmen Leccardi and Elisabetta Ruspini. Reconceptualizing Youth. New Perspectives and Challenges: Facing uncertainty. temporality and biographies in the new century, Carmen Leccardi; Coping with yo-yo-transitions. young adults' struggle for support, between family and state in comparative perspective, Andy Biggart and Andreas Walther; Individualization and the changing youth life, Sven Mørch and Helle Andersen; The sky is always falling. (un)changing views on youth in the US, Gunilla Holm, Toby Daspit and Allison J. Kelaher Young; Social changes and multicultural values of young people, Helena Helve. Young People and Relations Between Generations: Solidarity in New Zealand. parental support for children in a three-generational context, Sarah Hillcoat-Nallétamby and Arunachalam Dharmalingam; Living with parents: a research study on Italian young people and their mothers, Monica Santoro; Work and care in the life-course of young adults in the Netherlands, Manuela du Bois-Reymond and Yolanda te Poel; Daughters of the women's movement: generation conflicts and social change, Ute Gerhard. Transitions to Adulthood, Social Change and Social Exclusion: Young people and family life in Eastern Europe, Ken Roberts; Transition to adulthood in Georgia: dynamics of generational and gender roles in post-totalitarian society, Nana Sumbadze and George Tarkhan-Mouravi; Going against the tide: young lone mothers in Italy, Elisabetta Ruspini; The transitions to adulthood of young people with multiple disadvantages, Jane Parry; Growing up transgender: stories of an excluded population, Surya Monro; Index.