The Making of an Outsider

Growing Up in Poverty in Northern Ireland

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2328880
AutoresGoretti Horgan (University of Ulster, Jordanstown, UK,, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume43
Fascículo2
Páginas453-467
Data de publicação2011-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoYouth & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0044-118X • E-ISSN: 1552-8499
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0044118x10383543
OpenAlexW1976029258
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas7

The young people who are the focus of this article grow up in communities ravaged by poverty and conflict. School is where they spend most of their time, but their experience of school is, generally, not motivating and increases their feelings of social exclusion; almost one in ten young people whose family depends on benefits leaves school with no educational qualifications and the future they see is bleak. Small wonder, then, that so many suffer from emotional and mental health problems and engage in self-harming behavior. This article will use qualitative data from two studies carried out over the past 5 years to explore the experiences of young people growing up in poverty in Northern Ireland and look at the extent of their exclusion from the norms of society. It will argue that this exclusion is such that some of them feel 'outsiders' even within their own, disadvantaged, community, and this is dangerous in a society which is still emerging from conflict

Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Feeling · Mental health · Political science · Poverty · Qualitative research · Social exclusion · Social science · Sociology · Wonder · Youth studies · Children's Rights and Participation · Gender Studies · Irish and British Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics