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Young people in a globalizing world
- Author: United Nations
- Main Title: World Youth Report 2003 , pp 290-309
- Publication Date: October 2006
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/8abc2468-en
- Language: English
The ambiguous relationship between globalization and youth is examined in this chapter. Globalization offers clear economic opportunities and benefits, but comes with substantial social costs that often appear to affect young people disproportionately, given their tenuous transitional status within an uncertain and rapidly evolving global context. The chapter explores the economic impact of globalization on young people, with specific examples provided in country-level and more localized case studies. The phenomenon of cultural globalization and its connection with the youth culture is then examined, with particular attention given to the role of 1CT and media resources and the local-global synthesis that has occurred in identity formation. The final section returns to the ambiguities and contradictions that characterize this phenomenon, providing an assessment of its different implications for various groups, its contribution to local-global tensions, and its tendency to simultaneously promote linkages and divisions, inclusion and exclusion, and connectedness and isolation. The final conclusion is that young people’s experience with globalization has been negative thus far; efforts are therefore needed to ensure that they become active and productive global citizens.
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