Abstract

MORCUENDE, Alejandro. Emigration and youth: how catalan young people escape from an unsuccessful production model. GOT [online]. 2015, n.8, pp.103-131. ISSN 2182-1267.  https://doi.org/10.17127/got/2015.8.006.

This article, that belongs to a more wide research of final Master report, takes as principal aims the characterization of the situation of the catalan youth in the last decades, the study of the migratory process of the qualified youth framed inside the current  european economic and social dynamics, as well as the search of explanation elements of the reasons of this emigration. Is already well known that the current youngest generations are the most qualified of last decades; is well known also, not without many doubts about his reasons and his consequences, that this young emigration process is already a fact as an attempt to unsuccessfully search of some job opportunity in their own cities. The current economic crisis, and the policies of response, they have come spoiling the material conditions of the European populations, and especially of many young people, who see denied their basic rights for a full emancipation. This useless emancipation is considered as the principal way of explanation of the current exit of catalan young people abroad.

Keywords : youth emigration; emancipation; youth unemployment; job insecurity; housing.

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