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Australia's regional youth exodus

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posted on 2023-05-16, 13:27 authored by Gabriel, MB
In this paper, I report on preliminary findings arising from a more extensive doctoral project on Australia's regional youth exodus. One aim of this project is to stress the political moment lost in technical socio-demographic accounts of youth migration. Here, I examine the ‘taken for granted’ assumptions that frame conversations about regional youth migration, as well as the exclusionary limits of such discourse. In my review of popular media, I focus on the way young people are constructed by others (journalists, politicians, bureaucrats, and parents), and on how young people are positioned in other people's visions of their regional home towns. I discuss two narratives that recur in regional (Tasmanian) newspapers: support for strategies to keep young people at home and a preoccupation with the ‘best and brightest’ young people. I also discuss the emergence of these narratives in national forums.

History

Publication title

Journal of Rural Studies

Volume

18

Pagination

209-212

ISSN

0743-0167

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Pergamon

Place of publication

Oxford, United Kingdom

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Socio-economic Objectives

Children's services and childcare

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