Stuck : Rwandan youth and the struggle for adulthood / Marc Sommers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sommers, Marc.

Series:

Studies in security and international affairs.

Studies in security and international affairs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--Rwanda.

Youth.

Youth--Rwanda--Social conditions.

Youth--Rwanda--Economic conditions.

Youth and violence--Rwanda.

Youth and violence.

Rwanda--Social conditions.

Rwanda.

Rwanda--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press ; [Washington, D.C.] : published in association with the United States Institute of Peace, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Young people are transforming the global landscape. As the human popu­lation today is younger and more urban than ever before, prospects for achieving adulthood dwindle while urban migration soars. Stuck demonstrates how the Central African nation of Rwanda provides a compelling setting for grasping new challenges to the world's youth.

Contents:

Part 1. Introduction: youth views: 1. Youth in waithood

2. Doing research in Rwanda

Part 2. Fear of failure: rural youth lives: 3. Living in a vertical world: rural youth and the government

4. Low horizons

5. Striving for adulthood

Part 3. Quest for cash: urban youth lives: 6. Desperation on the new frontier: urban youth and the government

7. An inconstant existence

8. Prostitution, aids and fatalism

Part 4. Visions and realities: Rwanda and beyond: 9. Stuck youth.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613432032

9781283432030

128343203X

9780820338927

0820338923

OCLC:

775075458

Publisher Number:

heb40355 hdl