Coping with uncertainty : youth in the Middle East and North Africa / edited by Jörg Gertel and Ralf Hexel.

Includes bibliography

1. Youth in the MENA Region / Jorg Gertel
2. Uncertainty / Jorg Gertel
pt. I HABITS & VALUES
3. Values / David Kreuer
4. Religion / Rachid Ouaissa
5. Gender / Ines Braune
6. Family / Christoph H. Schwarz
pt. II ECONOMY
7. Economy and Employment / Jorg Gertel
8. Middle Class / Rachid Ouaissa
9. Hunger and Violence / Tamara Wyrtki
10. Mobility, Migration, and Flight / Ann-Christin Wagner
pt. III POLITICS & SOCIETY
11.Communication / Carola Richter
12. Politics / Sonja Hegasy
15. Mobilisation / Isabelle Werenfels
14. Civic Engagement / Friederike Stolleis
pt. IV COMPARING YOUTH
15. The FES MENA Youth Study and the German Shell Youth Study / Jorg Gertel
APPENDICES
Appendix I Methodology / Jorg Gertel
Appendix II Questionnaire
Appendix III Strata Index

"Seven years after the Arab uprisings, the social situation has deteriorated across the Middle East and North Africa. Political, economic and personal insecurities have expanded and, against a backdrop of escalating armed conflicts and disintegrating state structures, many have been forced from their homes, creating millions of internally displaced persons and refugees. Young people are often the ones hit hardest by the turmoil. How do they cope with these ongoing uncertainties, and what drives them to pursue their own dreams, in spite of these hardships? This landmark volume offers the most in-depth, comprehensive study on young people in the Arab world to date. In 2016 and 2017, an international interdisciplinary team of researchers conducted interviews with nine thousand young people aged 16-30 from Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen. Given how rapidly events have moved in the Middle East and North Africa, their findings, which are drawn together in this volume, are in many regards unexpected."--The publishers