Transitioning To Adulthood In Asia School Work And Family Life

Author : Wei-Jun Jean Yeung,Cheryll Alipio,Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452299747

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Transitioning to Adulthood in Asia: School, Work, and Family Life by Wei-Jun Jean Yeung,Cheryll Alipio,Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. Pdf

In the past decade or so, scholars in the United States have identified the emergence of a new, distinct stage of life, as adolescence has become protracted, and most young people of recent generations take longer to achieve economic and psychological autonomy than they did a half century ago. This new life stage, in between adolescence and adulthood when young people are in a semiautonomous state, has come to be known as "early adulthood." Main characteristics of this new life stage include a later entry into the work force, a longer period of time living in the natal home, and a delayed age at marriage and childbearing. These trends not only have profound implications for young adults' well-being and intergenerational relationships but also challenge social institutions, such as family, schools, labor markets, and many youth-serving institutions.

Author : Stella R. Quah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134712908

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Routledge Handbook of Families in Asia by Stella R. Quah Pdf

Research on the family has expanded considerably across Asia but studies tend to be fragmented, focusing on narrow issues within limited areas (cities, towns, small communities) and may not be accessible to international readers. These limitations make it difficult for researchers, students, policy makers, and practitioners to obtain the information they need. The Routledge Handbook of Families in Asia fills that gap by providing a current and comprehensive analysis of Asian families by a wide range of experts in a single publication. The thirty-two chapters of this comparative and multi-disciplinary volume are organized into nine major themes: conceptual approaches, methodological issues, family life in the context of culture, family relationships across the family life cycle, issues of work and income, stress and conflict, family diversity, family policy and laws, and environmental setting of homes. Each chapter examines family life across Asian countries, studying cultural similarities and differences and exploring how families are changing and what trends are likely to develop in the future. To provide a fruitful learning experience for the reader, each chapter offers examples, relevant data, and a comprehensive list of references. Offering a complete interdisciplinary overview of families in Asia, the Handbook will be of interest to students, academics, policy makers and practitioners across the disciplines of Asian Studies, Sociology, Demography, Social Work, Law, Social Policy, Anthropology, Geography, Public Health and Architecture.

Author : Jeffrey Jensen Arnett,Malcolm Hughes
Publisher : Longman
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Adolescence
ISBN : 1408253909

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Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett,Malcolm Hughes Pdf

Combines the most significant approaches and ideas in developmental, social and behavioural psychology to produce a comprehensive picture of what it means to experience adolescence today. Drawing upon European research, data and examples, the text takes a fresh approach to understanding adolescent development from a broad range of perspectives.

Author : E. Anne Marshall,Jennifer E. Symonds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190941536

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Young Adult Development at the School-to-Work Transition by E. Anne Marshall,Jennifer E. Symonds Pdf

The school-to-work transition is a critical part of the human life-span for young adults, their families, and society. The timing of the transition varies greatly and its co-occurrence with a number of other life transitions make it challenging to summarize or generalize. Individual differences and normative developmental factors, as well as external contextual factors such as global pandemics, changing economic circumstances, workplace demands, and cultural shifts, intersect to create a range of challenges and opportunities for those navigating this transition. Written by internationally renowned scholars in developmental psychology, applied psychology, counseling, and sociology, the chapters in this book highlight the trends, issues, and actions that researchers, academics, practitioners, and policy makers need to consider in order to effectively support young adults' transition to work pathways. This volume provides an explicitly international perspective on this area, broad coverage of psychological topics on the school-to-work transition, and an inclusive focus on sub-groups and minority groups, making it a must-read for those who support young adults as they move from school to work.

Author : Chin-Chun Yi,Ming-Chang Tsai
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529612417

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Journey to Adulthood by Chin-Chun Yi,Ming-Chang Tsai Pdf

Young people in East Asia are increasingly experiencing a prolonged transition to adulthood. They are spending longer in school, entering the labour market later, and getting married later still. This protracted young adulthood interacts with forces of both tradition and modernization, as social and economic changes generate profound effects on the transition from school to work, on family formation, on personal relationships, and on subjective well-being. Journey to Adulthood explores the special characteristics of young adulthood in East Asia. It uses Taiwan as illustrative example, with comparative findings from its East Asian neighbours Japan, Korea and Hong Kong. It describes the particular growth context of a millennial generation, and the challenges they face as they attempt to balance family formation, personal development and entry into a market economy. Edited by Chin-Chun Yi and Ming-Chang Tsai, this collection helps us to understand the structural configurations East Asian young adults collectively represent. Taking a cross-cultural and comparative perspective, it enables meaningful policy suggestions on family dynamics, educational strategy, and health and well-being across the globe. Dr Chin-Chun Yi and Dr Ming-Chang Tsai both work within the Institute of Sociology, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Author : Martin Bell,Aude Bernard,Elin Charles-Edwards,Yu Zhu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030440107

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Internal Migration in the Countries of Asia by Martin Bell,Aude Bernard,Elin Charles-Edwards,Yu Zhu Pdf

This book explores how population mobility varies among the countries of Asia. While much attention has been given to international migration, movement within countries is numerically much more significant. Coupling innovative methods developed in the global IMAGE project with the contextual knowledge of experts on 15 Asian countries, the book measures and explains how people across Asia differ in the probability of changing residence, the ages at which they move, and the impact of these migrations on the distribution of human settlement within each country. It demonstrates how stage of economic development, coupled with historical events, local contingencies, cultural norms, political frameworks, and the physical environment shape human migration. By using rigorous statistics in a robust comparative framework, this book provides a clear understanding of contemporary migration in Asia for students and academics, and a valuable resource for policy-makers and planners in Asia and beyond.

Author : Zheng Mu,Wei-Jun Jean Yeung
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000508253

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Migration and Marriage in Asian Contexts by Zheng Mu,Wei-Jun Jean Yeung Pdf

This book analyses how Asian migrants adapt and assimilate into their host societies, and how this assimilation differs across their sociodemographic backgrounds, ethnic profiles, and political contexts. The diversities in Asian migrants’ assimilation trajectories challenge the assumption that given time, migrants will eventually integrate holistically into their host societies. This book captures the diverse patterns and trajectories of assimilation by going beyond marriage migration to look at how family formation processes are shaped by migration driven by reasons other than marriage. Using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method analyses, not only does this book uncover the nuances of the link between marriage and migration, but it also widens methodological repertoires in research on marriage and migration. It also captures various social outcomes that may have been influenced by migration, including migrants’ economic well-being, cultural assimilation, subjective well-being, and gender inequality vis-à-vis marriages. This book further embeds the studies in the Asian contexts by drawing on individual countries’ unique policies relevant to cross-cultural marriages, the persistent impacts of extended families, the patriarchal traditions, and systems of religion and caste. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Author : L. Hoang,B. Yeoh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137506863

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Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family in Asia by L. Hoang,B. Yeoh Pdf

The contributors investigate the inter-relationships between migrant remittances and the family in Asia. They argue that, in the context of Asian transnational labour migration where remittances tend to become a primary currency of care, the making or breaking of the family unit is mainly contingent on how individuals handle remittance processes.

Author : Mariske Westendorp,Désirée Remmert,Kenneth Finis
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789208962

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Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia by Mariske Westendorp,Désirée Remmert,Kenneth Finis Pdf

Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations. Delving into topical issues such as education, social inequality, family pressures, changing values, precarious employment, and political discontent, the book explores how young people are pushing boundaries and imagining their future. In this way, they explore and create the identities of their local and global surroundings.

Author : Jenny Chesters
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839106972

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Research Handbook on Transitions into Adulthood by Jenny Chesters Pdf

This prescient Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges that young people from across the globe face as they navigate the transition from adolescence to adulthood.

Author : Ingrid Schoon,John Bynner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107172975

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Young People's Development and the Great Recession by Ingrid Schoon,John Bynner Pdf

This book provides a dynamic and contextualized account of how young people's lives are shaped by economic instability and uncertainty.

Author : Wing On Lee,Phillip Brown,A. Lin Goodwin,Andy Green
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 2588 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811968877

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International Handbook on Education Development in the Asia-Pacific by Wing On Lee,Phillip Brown,A. Lin Goodwin,Andy Green Pdf

The Springer International Handbook of Educational Development in Asia Pacific breaks new ground with a comprehensive, fine-grained and diverse perspective on research and education development throughout the Asia Pacific region. In 13 sections and 127 chapters, the Handbook delves into a wide spectrum of contemporary topics including educational equity and quality, language education, learning and human development, workplace learning, teacher education and professionalization, higher education organisations, citizenship and moral education, and high performing education systems. The Handbook is grounded in specific Asia Pacific contexts and scholarly traditions, using unique country-specific narratives, for example, Vietnam and Melanesia, and socio-cultural investigations through lenses such as language identity or colonisation, while offering parallel academic discourse and analyses framed by broader policy commentary from around the world.

Author : Suzanne Naafs,Tracey Skelton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429560927

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Realities and Aspirations for Asian Youth by Suzanne Naafs,Tracey Skelton Pdf

This comprehensive volume explores the remarkable expansion of higher education systems and institutions in Asia in recent decades, alongside changing forms of consumerism, mobility and global economic conditions. It demonstrates how recent changes in training, education and employment have sparked new aspirations for possible and desirable livelihoods among the younger generation, while also generating fresh problems and tensions. The authors in this volume critically interrogate the links between education and employment; normative understandings about youth and adulthood; as well as personal, national and regional level aspirations for economic ‘success’. Comparative chapters on Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Singapore and Taiwan illustrate how young people are having to forge innovative pathways into the future, while being confronted with ever increasing insecurities. Offering important insights into the kinds of education and employment landscapes that Asian youth are navigating, reworking or trying to avoid, this collection is an essential reference for students and scholars of Asian Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Development Studies, Human Geography and Youth Studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Children’s Geographies.

Author : Sandra V. Constantin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031572166

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A Life Course Perspective on Chinese Youths by Sandra V. Constantin Pdf

Author : Leta Hong Fincher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350323667

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Leftover Women by Leta Hong Fincher Pdf

A China Books Review Best China Book of 2023 Leta Hong Fincher's landmark book Leftover Women shone a light on the resurgence of gender inequality in 21st-century China. Ten years on, women in China continue to experience a dramatic rolling back of rights and gains in the increasingly patriarchal political climate of the Xi Jinping era. Leftover Women explores the structural discrimination against women and the broader problems with China's economy, politics, and development that lie behind it. This updated edition includes a new preface exploring developments in China in the 10 years since the book's original publication, including the new "three child policy", the growth in online feminist and LGBTQ activism and the state's increasingly repressive moves against dissent.