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'Don't let your child become a NEET!' The strategic foundations of a Japanese youth scare

Abstract:

This article contributes to the growing body of literature on Japanese youth problems by tracing and unpacking a recent moral panic surrounding young people identified as ‘NEETs’ for being ‘not in education, employment or training’. While sharing many key features with other mainstream youth problems in Japan, the case of ‘NEETs’ illuminates particularly well the strategic interplay of social labels and more technical policy categories. To this end, a clear distinction is made between the soc...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
OSGA
Sub department:
Japanese Studies
Oxford college:
Green Templeton College
Role:
Author

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Publisher:
Routledge
Journal:
Japan Forum Journal website
Volume:
23
Issue:
3
Pages:
407-429
DOI:
EISSN:
1469-932X
ISSN:
0955-5803
Language:
English
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uuid:3adca5ba-2aac-4456-85c4-f710aa6e09a5
Local pid:
ora:8254
Deposit date:
2014-03-25

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