Journal article
'Don't let your child become a NEET!' The strategic foundations of a Japanese youth scare
- Abstract:
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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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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Journal:
- Japan Forum Journal website
- Volume:
- 23
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 407-429
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1469-932X
- ISSN:
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0955-5803
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:8254
- Deposit date:
- 2014-03-25
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- Copyright holder:
- British Association for Japanese Studies
- Copyright date:
- 2011
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2011 British Association for Japanese Studies. This article is not currently available in ORA.
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