• 1ST GLOBAL FORUM ON YOUTH POLICIES

    28-30 October 2014 Baku, Azerbaijan     The programme of the First Global Forum on Youth Policies follows its original idea to organise discussions between youth policy leaders, experts and practitioners – a space for our professional community to exchange, reflect and discuss. Against that backdrop, most sessions are build around discussion formats. There will…

  • African Immigrant Families in Another France, by Loretta E. Bass

    Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014  The incorporation of Sub-Saharan African immigrant families is a key issue for France and Europe at large. Using the voices of first and second-generation immigrants to describe their integration experiences, this book illustrates how racial and immigrant statuses are assigned simultaneously and inseparably for those of African-descent in France, and in turn limit…

  • Child Protection & Online Safety Forum

    Advancing strategies and child protection systems to protect our children and their rights  20th – 21st November 2014 Cape Town Lodge Hotel & Conference Centre Cape Town (South Africa)   The Inaugural Child Protection & Online Safety Conference brings together family members (and the child where appropriate), supporters/advocates and those professionals most involved with the…

  • New IBYR email address

    New IBYR email address

      IBYR has a new email address: ibyr@unisa.it RC34 members, as well as those who work in the youth field or who are interested in the activities carried on by the ISA RC34 “Sociology of youth”, can use this email address to communicate with the IBYR Editor and for sending information and news to be…

  • RC34 Activities Report 2010-2014

    Activities report RC34 2010-14

  • RC34 Business Meeting

    International Sociological Association Research Committee 34 (Youth) BUSINESS MEETING World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan Tuesday, 15th July 2014   Minutes In attendance: James Côté (President), Tomohiko Asano (VP: Asia), Shen Jie (VP: Asia), Ani Wierenga (VP: Oceania), Sharlene Swartz (VP: Africa and the Middle East), Rosa Maria Camarena-Cordova (VP: Latin America), Jeylan Mortimer (VP:…

  • RC34 (Youth) Executive Board Meeting

    International Sociological Association Research Committee 34 Executive Board meeting Yokohama, Japan 17th July, 2014   Minutes In attendance: Ani Wierenga (President), James Côté (Past President), Clarence Batan (VP: Asia), Rosa Maria Camarena-Cordova (VP: Latin America), Maurice Devlin (VP: Europe), Jeylan Mortimer (VP: North America), Sharlene Swartz (VP: Africa and the Middle East), Natalia Wæchter (VP:…

  • RC 34 Brochure 2010-2014

    Click image to download. Preview of what’s inside Some recent member publications: René Bendit, Marina Hahn & Ana Miranda (Eds.) (2008). Youth and the future: social inclusion processes and vulnerability patterns in a globalized world, Prometeo Books (in Spanish) Daniel Faas (2010). Negotiating Political Identities: Multiethnic Schools and Youth in Europe. Ashgate. Charlotte Fabiansson (2010).…

  • Call for Papers: “Interactive Futures: Young People’s Mediated Lives in the Asia Pacific and Beyond”

    There is a call for papers to be presented in a conference this Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd December, 2014 in Monash University Caulfield Campus, Melbourne. It’s theme is Interactive Futures: Young People’s Mediated Lives in the Asia Pacific and Beyond and this conference explores young people’s engagement with new modes of mediated communication, self-expression…