Dedication

pp iii-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

List of tables and figures

pp vii-vii

Notes on contributors

pp viii-x

Acknowledgements

pp xi-xi

Foreword

pp xii-xx

Part One - Youth policy, pariahs and poverty

pp 1-2

one - Critically theorising young adult marginality: historical and contemporary perspectives

pp 3-22

two - Broken society, anti-social contracts, failing state?Rethinking youth marginality

pp 23-42

three - Youth poverty and social exclusion in the UK

pp 43-64

four - Routine sanctions, humiliation and human struggle: qualitative biographies of young people's experience of live marginality

pp 65-80

five - Normalisation of youth austerity through entertainment: critically addressing media representations of youth marginality in Britain

pp 81-102

Part Two - Intersections of youth marginality: class, gender, ethnicity and education

pp 103-104

six - Pramface girls? Early motherhood, marginalisation and the management of stigma

pp 105-116

seven - Leisure lives on the margins: (re)imagining youth in Glasgow's East End

pp 117-132

eight - Asylum rejected: ‘appeal rights exhausted’ Afghan care leavers facing return

pp 133-148

nine - Responses to the marginalisation of Roma young people in education in an age of austerity in the United Kingdom

pp 149-162

ten - Apprentice or student as alternatives to marginalisation?

pp 163-176

eleven - A school for our community: critically assessing discourses of marginality in the establishment of a free school

pp 177-190

Twelve - The marginalisation of care: young care leavers’ experiences of professional relationships

pp 191-206

Part Three - Resistance and ethnography

pp 207-208

thirteen - [B]othered Youth: marginalisation, stop and search and the policing of belonging

pp 209-224

fourteen - On the margins: the last place to rebel? Understanding young people's resistance to social conformity

pp 225-238

fifteen - ‘Binge’ drinking devils and moral marginality: young people's calculated hedonism in the Canterbury night-time economy

pp 239-252

sixteen - The new ‘spectral army’: biography and youth poverty on Teesside's deprived estates

pp 253-268

seventeen - Conclusions: advanced youth marginality post-Brexit

pp 269-280

Index

pp 281-289