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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788382103321

Autore

Sommers Marc

Titolo

Stuck [[electronic resource] ] : Rwandan youth and the struggle for adulthood / / Marc Sommers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press

[Washington, D.C.], : published in association with the United States Institute of Peace, 2011

ISBN

1-283-43203-X

9786613432032

0-8203-3892-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Studies in security and international affairs

Disciplina

303.6/208350967571

Soggetti

Youth - Rwanda

Youth - Rwanda - Social conditions

Youth - Rwanda - Economic conditions

Youth and violence - Rwanda

Rwanda Social conditions

Rwanda History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1. Introduction: youth views: 1. Youth in waithood -- 2. Doing research in Rwanda -- Part 2. Fear of failure: rural youth lives: 3. Living in a vertical world: rural youth and the government -- 4. Low horizons --5. Striving for adulthood -- Part 3. Quest for cash: urban youth lives: 6. Desperation on the new frontier: urban youth and the government --7. An inconstant existence -- 8. Prostitution, aids and fatalism -- Part 4. Visions and realities: Rwanda and beyond: 9. Stuck youth.