The “NEET” category from the perspective of inequalities - Toward a typology of school-to-work transitions among youth from lower class neighborhoods in the Brussels Region (Belgium)

This paper proposes a critical analysis of the NEET category. We argue that it is both too focused on individual responsibility and too homogenizing to enable the development of public policies and measures capable of responding to the needs of the most excluded youth We respond to these needs by bringing qualitative sociology of inequality to bear on the analysis. We present socio-anthropological fieldwork inspired by the ECRIS method (Olivier de Sardan 1995), a qualitative approach that has allowed us to account for the diversity of young people, especially the most marginalized, living in w... Mehr ...