Italy is not a country for young people. Why? This book provides a unique and in-depth collection of empirical and theoretical material providing multiple answers to this question whilst investigating the living conditions of young people in Italy today.

Introduction:ITALIAN YOUTH IN CONTEXT: AN ANALYSIS THROUGH MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS; I. ACTIVISM, PARTICIPATION AND CITIZENSHIP; 1. Young People and Politics in Italy in Times of Populism; 2. When Millennials Protest: Youth Activism in Italy; 3. Discourses and Practices of Citizenship Among Young People of Different Ethnic Backgrounds Living in Italy; 4. Strategy, Performance and Gender: An Interactionist Understanding of Young Activists within the Italian LGTB Movement and the Catholic Countermovement; II. WORK, EMPLOYMENT AND CAREERS; 5. The Social Investment Challenge and Young Italians; 6. The Synchrony of Temporary Young Workers: Employment Discontinuity, Income Discontinuity, and New Social Inequalities in Italy; 7. Young Graduates' Access to the Labour Market: Cumulative or Trade Off Effects Between Occupational Level, Contracts and Wages; 8. When Age is Academically Constructed: The Endless Status of 'Young Researchers' in Italy; III. MOVES, TRANSITIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS; 9. Young Italians: Individualization, Uncertainty and Reconquesting the Future; 10. Pathways toward Adulthood in Times of Crisis: Reflexivity, Resources and Agency Among Young Neapolitans; 11. From South to North: Internal Student Migration in Italy; 12. Becoming an Adult in the New Millennium: How the Transition to Adulthood is Changed.