Youth Migration and Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries

<p><strong>Youth Migration and Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries </strong></p><p> </p><p>THE ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science<br /><br />July 2013 Volume 648</p><p> </p><p><strong>Editors:<br /></strong>Fatima Juarez Thomas LeGrand Cynthia Lloyd Susheela Singh and Véronique Hertrich</p><p>Currently it is estimated that there are 1.1 billion young people aged 15–24 in the developing world accounting for nearly one-fifth (18.6 percent) of the total population. During this time of life young people experience enormous changes due to physical maturation which is accompanied by cognitive social/emotional and interpersonal changes. It is a period when the influence of par­ents and families gradually diminishes and the influence of external factors such as peers; the media; the educational environment; and more generally the eco­nomic social and cultural environments in which they live are increasingly prominent.</p><div style=text-indent: 0px;><span style=font-size: 9pt; text-indent: 12pt;>The articles in this volume of </span><strong style=font-size: 9pt; text-indent: 12pt;>The ANNALS </strong><span style=font-size: 9pt; text-indent: 12pt;>can be classified by three themes: migration in the context of transitions to adulthood including schooling employment and family formation; consequences of migration for health reproductive outcomes and childbear­ing; and migration strategies and consequences. All the articles presented here are innovative in their approach and their findings advance our understand­ing of youths’ migration and transitions to adulthood in developing countries. These studies and their findings clearly attest to the enormous diversity of situations of youth migration transitions to adulthood and the con­texts in which they occur across developing countries. For some adolescents and young adults migration brings with it very serious risks and often negative consequences while for others it opens horizons and is associated with expanding opportunities in both the social and economic spheres.</span></div><div id=productContent class=book yui-content><div id=wrapper><div id=body class=book><div id=description><p>Paperback: $35.00 Sale Price $28.00 ISBN: 9781483333182<br />Hardcover: $48.00 Sale Price $38.40 ISBN: 9781483333175</p></div></div></div></div>