{"title":"Self-Focus","authors":"Douglas Magnuson, Mikael Jansson, C. Benoit","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190624934.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190624934.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"In Chapter 4, accounts of street-involved youth about their separation from guardians are described. These stories show that how and why these youth separate or are separated from guardians affect their unusual experiences of self-focus, emerging adulthood, and experiences on the street. The youth’s explanations for leaving guardians included the desire to grow up, the need to escape intolerable conditions at home, and the urge for freedom. On the other hand, much like other emerging adults, in this period street-involved youth were “freed” of the routines of school and family life.","PeriodicalId":190698,"journal":{"name":"The Experience of Emerging Adulthood Among Street-Involved Youth","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116819172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Possibilities","authors":"Douglas Magnuson, Mikael Jansson, C. Benoit","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt22rbjbv.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt22rbjbv.8","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 6 describes the desire for further change shown by the street-involved youth as they grew older and more mature. They were responding to recognition that their friendships need to change if their life is to change; boredom and wanting something more meaningful; unhappiness with their own drug use; weariness with being financially vulnerable; being frightened about the direction of their lives; a desire to be better than their parents; responsibilities to others, including a partner or a child; and utopian aspirations. The chapter also presents the experiences of some youth who had hopes but, at the time of the authors’ final meeting with them, were discouraged and had absorbed the street identity into their long-term idea about who they were.","PeriodicalId":190698,"journal":{"name":"The Experience of Emerging Adulthood Among Street-Involved Youth","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132352548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implications for Policy and Practice","authors":"Douglas Magnuson, Mikael Jansson, C. Benoit","doi":"10.4324/9780203978290-18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203978290-18","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 9 illustrates the circumstances of the authors’ street-involved youth sample at the time of the last data collection point, further implications of early life trauma, and the unfairness of social policy, with suggestions for helping street-involved youth reintegrate into mainstream social institutions more easily. The youth at this point in their lives were either stable and engaged, stable and unengaged, unstable and engaged, or unstable and unengaged. Only youth in the last category were truly in difficulty, but youth in the other three categories were often left out of supports that other young people take for granted. This points to the mismatch between age and social structure, and in part this is a consequence of education, work, and social services not being responsive to their life circumstances or focused on short-term goals rather than inclusion.","PeriodicalId":190698,"journal":{"name":"The Experience of Emerging Adulthood Among Street-Involved Youth","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129260662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identity","authors":"Douglas Magnuson, Mikael Jansson, C. Benoit","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190624934.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190624934.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 8 describes how identity exploration and “enduring choices” are more difficult for street-involved youth, in part because they do not receive much help from familial and societal institutions. Identity exploration is in large part the experience of disengagement from street life and engagement with something else. This process is interpretable as a change in worldview, from a reactive need for independence and self-determination, away from “not being who I want to be,” and toward a greater focus or need for meaningfulness, security, and support that comes with interdependence with others. This process was the mirror image of what these youth experienced during their separation from parents and guardians, a time when individuating themselves from their family was important. Identity achievement is a challenge for all youth, and it is an acute problem for street-involved youth who are not situated in social and structural locations where adult identities are easily accessible.","PeriodicalId":190698,"journal":{"name":"The Experience of Emerging Adulthood Among Street-Involved Youth","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133524220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}