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Author:   Suzanne Naafs ,  Tracey Skelton
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.260kg
ISBN:  

9780367730444

ISBN 10:   0367730448
Pages:   132
Publication Date:   18 December 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Youthful futures? Aspirations, education and employment in Asia Suzanne Naafs and Tracey Skelton 2. From water to tears: extra-curricular activities and the search for substance in China’s universities Chun-Yi Sum 3. Learning by ‘design’: how undergraduates in Singapore learn to become engineers Arthur C. K. Chia and Mihye Cho 4. Rural youth and urban-based vocational training: gender, space and aspiring to ‘become someone’ Lyda Chea and Roy Huijsmans 5. Youth aspirations and employment in provincial Indonesia: a view from the lower middle classes Suzanne Naafs 6. ‘Every household will be a micro-enterprise’: a youth micro-loan scheme’s role in restructuring Nepal Amanda Snellinger 7. The precarious and the transitional: labor casualization and youth in post-bubble Japan Colin S. Smith 8. Opportunities, challenges, and transitions: educational aspirations of Pakistani migrant youth in Hong Kong Wai-chi Chee 9. Globalised Dreams, Local Constraints: Migration and Youth Aspirations in an Indian Regional Town Trent Brown, Timothy J. Scrase and Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase 10. Sunflowers, youthful protestors and political achievements: lessons from Taiwan Yu-Chieh Hsieh and Tracey Skelton

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Suzanne Naafs is a Lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology/Development Sociology at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Tracey Skelton is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore, and Visiting Professor at Loughborough University, UK.

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