A A focus on programs for the labor inclusion of poor youth: The institutional as a subjective support

Authors

  • Claudia Jacinto Universidad de París III
  • Verónica Millenaar Universidad de Buenos Aires

Abstract

The problems of employment and exclusion of youth have become a true challenge for the public policies and action of the civil society. For a long time, programs and diverse strategies are implemented and that, to a great extent, share an unspecific diagnosis on the background of the problems in the area of employment which are also called «deficits» of formation. These approaches are limited ahead of the complex plot of structural, institutional, familiar, individual and subjective dimensions that place youth, in particular the poorest, in disadvantaged situations. The present article is set out to raise the discussion one of these aspects in particular: the institutional level; in order to reflect on the forms in which the institutions try to take part in the youth transition, facing the processes of individualisation and institutional weakening. In this way, two cases of organizations in Argentina have been selected who set out to generate an intense impact on the subjectivities of these young people, through approache which take into account the «constellations of youth disadvantages», in an ample way. The analysis of two institutions that give preferential rise to the subjective approach, opening the way for reflection on institutional possibilities to provide new collective supports and to contribute to the individualization of the subjects and the development of their own strategies.

Keywords:

labor insertion trajectories, youth, institutions