While some of MENA's recent macro-economic and political developments have created further obstacles for the region's youth, young peoples' responses to these constraints have differed remarkably. As such, the process by which we expand our understanding of young people should be informed by a...

Most typically, analyses of youth have employed either the neo-classical economic framework of human capital or the socio-demographic framework of life-course research in the Middle East. While both have produced important findings and insights, their focus on supply-side processes of...