This book draws on a wealth of evidence including young people's own stories, to document
how they are now faring in increasingly unequal societies like America, Britain, Australia …

Purpose This study aims to understand the engagement between an indigenous social
service provider and marginalised clients deemed “hard-to-reach” to gain an insight into …

Meaningful inclusion of young people's perceptions and experiences of inequalities is
argued to be critical in the development of pro-equity policies. Our study explored young …

This paper explores the interdependency of food relations through young people's accounts
of food insecurity. Drawing on ethnographic research with a youth urban agriculture program …

Relative deprivation theory suggests that perceived socioeconomic standing has
implications for multiple aspects of life. Early childhood is critical for later development and …

Despite the expectation that welfare participation—because of its direct monetary payments—
fosters strong attachments to the Democratic Party, the evidence to date suggests that …

This article aims to contribute to understandings of how children experience family troubles.
It considers how children's family troubles are socially situated and interlinked with the …

In this chapter we account for our engagement with existing social sciences literature and
consider how men might, often inadvertently, be rendered 'absent', through the discursive …

Much is known about the negative experiences and long-term effects of persistent poverty
on the health and well-being of tamariki/children. What is less well understood is how …

This article interrogates childhood politics through a case study of voluntary sector
responses to benefit sanctions in the UK. This article explores the absent 'voices' of children …