Childhood and Migration in Europe explores the under-researched and often misunderstood
worlds of migrant children and young people, drawing on extensive empirical research with …

This article analyzes the governmental rationalities informing youth work policy in the
contemporary Irish context. Since 2008, the implementation of neoliberalized austerity in …

Childhood and Migration in Europe explores the under-researched and often misunderstood
worlds of migrant children and young people, drawing on extensive empirical research with …

This article examines the development of youth work policy and practice in Ireland over the
past decade. The paper emerged from a research project carried out by the author which …

This paper aims to explore the challenges to youth work in capturing the voices of young
people in a meaningful way within Meitheal and the Child and Family Support Networks …

Implicitly or explicitly, youth work practitioners, scholars and advocates typically invoke a set
of egalitarian values to explain, justify and promote the ethical basis of their work. Despite …

In the context of consumerism, individualism and the privatisation of young people's leisure,
youth work struggles to attract young people, especially those aged 15 to 19 years. Drawing …

Collaborative governance theories are well debated, however the current body of
knowledge identifies the evaluation of collaborative governance settings as problematic …

Debates about the implications of a targeted approach to youth work have been conducted
over the last few decades. While it is often argued that targeting is a means of reaching and …

Contemporary policy discourse about young people is frequently trapped in the
dichotomous paradigm of simplistically portraying them as either 'a problem'or a 'human …