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Sep 1, 2021 · Given increasing policy attention to the consequences of youth marginalisation for development processes, engaging with the experiences of socially marginalised adolescents in low- and middle-income countries (including those who are out of school, refugees, married, with disabilities or adolescent parents) is a pressing priority. To understand how these disadvantages—and adolescents ...
- Sarah Baird, Laura Camfield, Anita Ghimire, Bassam Abu Hamad, Nicola Jones, Kate Pincock, Tassew Wol...
- 2021
Feb 1, 2021 · While the concept of intersectionality helps us understand the spaces that youth occupy as a function of their unique personal and social identity configurations, further research and theory building on the development of identity intersectionalities and their consequences for young individuals' daily lives is needed.
Embedding intersectionality in program development recognizes that AYA are developing multifaceted, intertwined identities and that structural inequities deeply impact identity development. Mobilizing for systemic change demands directing actions against discrimination and oppression to address not solely individual behaviors but also adolescent development.
The evidence that gender norms affect health has led many UN agencies and civil society partners to embrace gender-responsive programming that begins in early adolescence. 7 However, few of these programmes have applied an intersectionality lens to tackle how gender norms intersect and interact with other dimensions of young adolescents’ social and structural realities—such as their social ...
May 14, 2020 · While previous studies have identified independent roles of these dimensions in adolescent development, there has been a limited understanding in the intersectionality of these dimensions depicted by various configurations exhibiting different developmental implications (Chatman et al., 2001). In this study, ethnic/racial adolescents’ profiles of ERI, American identity, and SSS were explored.
Jan 30, 2020 · As was discussed in the recent special issue of New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, intersectionality is not a falsifiable theory of the kind generally applied within developmental science (Syed and Ajayi, 2018). Instead, it is a humanistic theory recognizing, questioning, and pushing against interlocking structures of inequity ...
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Research on the development of social identities in early and middle childhood has largely focused on gender; increasingly, however, theory and research have addressed the development of ethnic/racial, social class, sexual, and immigrant identities. Moreover, it is assumed that individuals’ thinking about and articulating of the intersectionality between their social identities emerge in ...
