This study aims to reflect on the economic inclusion process of the Latinamerican rural youth. We are interested in inquiring how do the Latinamerican rural youth manage to get access to livelihoods that allow them to form a family and have fulfilling lives. We wonder what are the obstacles that rural youth face, the role of public policies and territorial conditions, considering a context of economic, social, political and cultural changes. Even if Latinamerican rural youth lives better than their parents and grandparents, and have better opportunities, the transition to adulthood involves a wall of obstacles and difficulties. This wall can be more or less defiant according to the individual conditions of every rural young person. Living in dynamic territories facilitates the task of getting over the wall while living in economical lagged territory makes it more difficult. It is even harder for women than for men, as for young indigenous people of ether gender.
This metaphorical wall is drifted from long term structural factors that Latinamerican rural territories present. There are fewer decent jobs in the rural areas, due to urban economies scale and the inequalities inherited from the XX century that favours urban agendas over rural ones. All these problems have been faced by older rural generations and are faced by the young ones too. But present rural youth face new problems which are drifted from the evolution of rural territories. The hardest of these problems are the challenges derived from demographic transition. As people live better and longer, intergenerational transmission of assets are postponed. As a result, even though Latinamerican rural youth lives in a better world, the wall they must get over in order to achieve an economic inclusion is higher than the wall that former rural generations had to face.
This study aims to reflect on the economic inclusion process of the Latinamerican rural youth. We are interested in inquiring how do the Latinamerican rural youth manage to get access to livelihoods that allow them to form a family and have fulfilling lives. We wonder what are the obstacles that rural youth face, the role of public policies and territorial conditions, considering a context of economic, social, political and cultural changes. Even if Latinamerican rural youth lives better than their parents and grandparents, and have better opportunities, the transition to adulthood involves a wall of obstacles and difficulties. This wall can be more or less defiant according to the individual conditions of every rural young person. Living in dynamic territories facilitates the task of getting over the wall while living in economical lagged territory makes it more difficult. It is even harder for women than for men, as for young indigenous people of ether gender.
This metaphorical wall is drifted from long term structural factors that Latinamerican rural territories present. There are fewer decent jobs in the rural areas, due to urban economies scale and the inequalities inherited from the XX century that favours urban agendas over rural ones. All these problems have been faced by older rural generations and are faced by the young ones too. But present rural youth face new problems which are drifted from the evolution of rural territories. The hardest of these problems are the challenges derived from demographic transition. As people live better and longer, intergenerational transmission of assets are postponed. As a result, even though Latinamerican rural youth lives in a better world, the wall they must get over in order to achieve an economic inclusion is higher than the wall that former rural generations had to face.