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Young People and Long-Term Unemployment examines the consequences of long-term unemployment for the personal, social, and political lives of young adults aged 18–34 across four European cities: Cologne (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland), Lyon (France), and Turin (Italy). Adopting a multidimensional theoretical framework aiming to bring together insights based on the contextual (macro), organizational (meso), and individual (micro) levels, and combining quantitative and qualitative data and analyses, it reaches a number of important conclusions. First, our study shows that the experience of long-term unemployment has a negative impact on different dimensions of young people's lives. When compared to employed youth, unemployed youth are less satisfied with their lives, more isolated, and less independent financially. Second, however, there are important variations across the four cities. This means that, in spite of widespread retrenchments, in some places the welfare state still acts as a buffer against unemployment. Third, although young unemployed people participate in politics equally if not slightly more than employed youth, the young unemployed are often disconnected from politics. This is so even when they have important grievances to express in the face of high youth unemployment, precarious working conditions, and grim future perspectives on the labor market. This book will be useful for scholars interested in unemployment politics and youth politics, researchers and teachers in political science, sociology, and social psychology.

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This book examines the everyday-life patterns of young adults under circumstances of vulnerability and precariousness. Its main focus is on the web of social relations that structure the everyday life of young people, for instance by providing resources and tools of solving problems, exerting pressures and voicing expectations, and shaping the person's self-conception, identity, and well-being. Based on more than 120 in-depth interviews with young long-term unemployed in six European countries, this book puts social support and the young jobless' webs of social relations at center stage. It expands knowledge by raising awareness of the multidimensionality and complexity of the social conditions of young jobless, drawing, on the one hand, a more differentiated picture of unemployment, vulnerability and social exclusion amongst young people and, on the other hand, taking a close look at the social reality of young adults' unemployment in different European cities.

This paper was originally presented at the Conference “The European Legal Field-Le champ juridique européen” organized by Bruno de Witte and Antoine Vauchez with the Robert Schuman Centre and the Academy of European Law (European University Institute, 25-26 September 2008). This paper argues that European public affairs is a growing labour market exposed to a gradual institutionalization, albeit important internal cleavages and fragmentations. The primary focus of the analysis is on the position and orientation of legal firms and consultants. The author agrees to scholarly writing by underlining that commercial consultants and lobbyists do not belong to the powerful actors and stakeholders of the European arena. However, he argues that these companies do have an important impact on European politics on another dimension of analysis, because they play an active role (along with the European institutions, amongst others) in the construction and organization of public affairs as a labour-market of paid work on the basis of specific skills, shared claims to superior knowledge and ethical commitments. While the legal profession tries to preserve its own professional status and privilege, and attempts to dissociate itself from the dusky work of interest representation and lobbying, it cannot detach itself from the steady institutionalization and professionalization of European public affairs, which is having indirect effects on European politics.

Die Proteste französischer und deutscher Arbeitsloser in den Jahren 1994 bis 2004 belegen, dass eine Mobilisierung marginalisierter Personengruppen unter bestimmten Randbedingungen gelingen kann. Der vorliegende Beitrag geht von der Annahme aus, dass die vorhandenen Organisationsstrukturen der lokalen Erwerbslosenarbeit zwar eine notwendige Bedingung darstellen, das Protestaufkommen und die Unterschiede zwischen den Ländern aber nicht hinreichend erklären können. Deshalb wird auf die Unterstützung durch 'Dritte' - hier vor allem durch die Gewerkschaften - verwiesen, welche wiederum deutlich von der landesspezifischen Struktur des Gewerkschaftssystems abhängt. Die vergleichende Fallanalyse der französischen und deutschen Protestepisoden kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die kompetitive Kooperation der Erwerbslosen mit linken Gewerkschaftsdissidenten in Frankreich wesentlich förderlicher war als die Aktivitäten der Erwerbslosen in Deutschland, die sich lange Zeit im Windschatten der nationalen Gewerkschaftsverb ände bewegten., Protests by the unemployed in France and Germany (1994-2004) proved that the mobilization of marginalized groups may well succeed, yet requires conducive conditions to happen. This paper assumes that the existing interorganizational structures of local unemployment groups and networks represent a necessary prerequisite, but that they are not in a position to provide an adequate explanation of the intensity of protests and the differences in the two countries. We, therefore, refer to "third parties" - above all trade union - support, which in its turn is strongly dependent on the country-specific structure of trade unionism. The comparative case analysis of the German and French protest episodes concludes that the competitive cooperation with left-wing trade union dissidents in France was far more conducive than the activities of the unemployed in Germany, which have long moved in the shadow of the national trade unions.

Soziale Bewegungsakteure unterstreichen zunehmend die Globalität der behandelten Themen (Menschenrechte, Umweltverschmutzung, Frieden, etc.), betonen, daß die internationale Arena für effektives politisches Handeln immer ausschlaggebender wird und erkennen, daß die Internationalisierung ein Mittel bereitstellt, um ihr Schicksal von nationalen und lokalen Mobilisierungszyklen abzukoppeln. Daher wird Kampagnenführung in zunehmendem Maße eine Sache international koordinierten kollektiven Handelns. Dieser Internationalisierungsprozeß übt jedoch seinerseits einen Zwang auf die involvierten Akteure aus, der das Gesicht der beteiligten Bewegungsorganisationen und ihrer politischen Mobilisierungsanstrengungen deutlich prägt.

Defence date: 18 November 1994 Examining board: Michel Dobry (Université de Paris - Nanterre) ; Prof. Klaus Eder (supervisor - EUI) ; Prof. Hanspeter Kriesi (Université de Genève) ; Prof. Richard Münch (Universität Düsseldorf) ; Prof. Alessandro Pizzorno (co-supervisor - EUI) PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017

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This book examines the ‘European refugee crisis’, offering an in-depth comparative analysis of how public attitudes towards refugees and humanitarian dispositions are shaped by political news coverage. An international team of authors address the role of the media in contesting solidarity towards refugees from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Focusing on the public sphere, the book follows the assumption that solidarity is a social value, political concept and legal principle that is discursively constructed in public contentions. The analysis refers systematically and comparatively to eight European countries, namely, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Treatment of data is also original in the way it deals with variations of public spheres by combining a news media claims-making analysis with a social media reception analysis. In particular, the book highlights the prominent role of the mass media in shaping national and transnational solidarity, while exploring the readiness of the mass media to extend thick conceptions of solidarity to non-members. It proposes a research design for the comparative analysis of online news reception and considers the innovative potential of this method in relation to established public opinion research. The book is of particular interest for scholars who are interested in the fields of European solidarity, migration and refugees, contentious politics, while providing an approach that talks to scholars of journalism and political communication studies, as well as digital journalism and online news reception. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

International audience; Drawing upon information collected through 20 in-depth qualitative interviews with young long-term unemployed aged 18–34, we argue in this chapter that there is something quite specific about the way young people experience unemployment in France, and that their experience does not conform to the broader patterns laid out by sociologists. Overall, the analysis emphasizes on a number of key variables such as age, social position, cultural capital, gender, and the effect of specific processes of socialization in a given territory. Although unemployment undeniably affects social ties and heightens the risks of isolation, we show that the wide variety of experiences among young people is not always severe, and certainly not entirely aligned with the catastrophic experience of the unemployed in Marienthal.