Young people's schooling trajectories and transitions to social adulthood in the context of Brazil's Bolsa Família

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Young people's schooling trajectories and transitions to social adulthood in the context of Brazil's Bolsa Família

Jones, H; (2022) Young people's schooling trajectories and transitions to social adulthood in the context of Brazil's Bolsa Família. Critical Social Policy 10.1177/02610183221137818. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

As cash transfers have become key tenets of social protection systems in the global South, much effort has gone into evaluating their outcomes. Less attention has been paid, however, to young beneficiaries’ experiences of cash transfers and the contextualised and differentiated impacts on their lives at the micro-level. Based on a qualitative study of young recipients of Brazil's Bolsa Família programme, this article explores the factors that shape young people's schooling trajectories. The article demonstrates the complexity of young people's lives vis-à-vis the CCT policy model; particularly, how their trajectories do not conform to its linear logic, but rather reflect a more complex interaction of gender norms and social and economic inequalities. The tension between the linearity of the policy model and these differentiated and gendered trajectories in turn complicates how young people navigate the transition to social adulthood, by marking out ‘problematic’ vs ‘successful’ transitions and trajectories.

Type:	Article
Title:	Young people's schooling trajectories and transitions to social adulthood in the context of Brazil's Bolsa Família
Open access status:	An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI:	10.1177/02610183221137818
Publisher version:	https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221137818
Language:	English
Additional information:	© The Author(s) 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Keywords:	cash transfers, education, poverty, transitions, youth
UCL classification:	UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute
URI:	https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10162456