%0 Journal Article
%A Kiss, L
%A Fotheringhame, D
%A Quilan-Davidson, M
%D 2021
%F discovery:10138444
%I ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
%J Journal of Youth Studies
%K NEETs, young people, youth unemployment, marginalisation, social inequalities, social exclusion
%T Latin American young NEETs: Brazil as a case study for systemic risks of youth social exclusion
%U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10138444/
%X Globally, one fifth of individuals aged 15–24 are ‘not in  employment, education or training’ (NEET). NEETs have become  an increasingly important notion in international debate,  although criticisms are directed at its all-encompassing nature  and lack of concern with the intergenerational, gendered, social  and systemic inequalities that influence young people becoming  NEETs. Prevalence of youth NEETs is especially high in Latin  America, with women disproportionally affected. Brazil has one of  the highest absolute numbers of NEETs in LAC. This paper uses  data from the last Brazilian census to examine contextual drivers  of NEETs in Brazil, and to critically assess broader implications for  policy. In Brazil, states with higher coefficients of social inequality  and levels of criminality are more likely to have higher proportion  of youth NEET. Globally, social inequalities associated with  gender, race and crime are pervasive drivers of young NEET  status. Latin American youth are in a particularly disadvantageous  position. Policies that aim to overcome social exclusion and  marginalisation of youth need to focus on systemic drivers of the  NEET condition among vulnerable subgroups of young people.
%Z © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License  (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).