The International Development Research Center/Centre de Recherches pour le Développement International (IDRC/CRDI) of Canada has sponsored and financed a series of research studies, coordinated by FLACSO Costa Rica, which have attempted to assemble three issues: young people from working-class urban communities, violence, and job opportunities. This text systematizes this set of studies by proposing an analytical framework to address the interaction between violence and work, and the actions of male and female young people. Based on it, four scenarios of youth agency are identified in this type of contexts where violence is too much, and work lacks. The text concludes with a series of questions that the current pandemic poses to these scenarios and that outline research issues for the immediate future.
Keywords:
young people from working-class communities, violence, work
Author Biography
Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO)
Investigador de FLACSO Costa Rica. Correo electrónico: jpps@flacso.or.cr
Pérez Sáinz, J. P. (2021). When violence is too much and work lacks. Scenarios for young people from working-class urban communities in Latin America. Última Década, 29(55), 33–61. Retrieved from https://congresotransporte.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/64782
