Marginalized, Changemaker, Workforce, Migrant. An Exploratory Case Study of Youth Representations in the Danish Arab Partnership Programme 2022-2027
Author
Petersen, Katrine Hauberg
Term
4. term
Publication year
2022
Submitted on
2022-10-15
Pages
58
Abstract
Mange udviklingspolitikker fremhæver i stigende grad unge som nøglen til at opnå en bred vifte af mål. Denne udvikling omtales som et "globalt fokus på unge" og forstås af nogle forskere som knyttet til neoliberale logikker, fx markedsløsninger, iværksætteri og et stærkt ansvar på individet. Specialet undersøger, om – og hvordan – denne tendens viser sig i national udviklingspolitik. Med et eksplorativt casestudie af Danmarks officielle udviklingssamarbejde med Mellemøsten og Nordafrika, Det Dansk-Arabiske Partnerskabsprogram (DAPP), analyseres, hvordan "unge" fremstilles i denne sammenhæng. Konkret anvendes en What's the Problem Represented to be?-analyse (WPR) af DAPPs strategiske ramme 2022–2027, som undersøger, hvordan politikteksten definerer problemer og former foreslåede løsninger. Analysen trækker på teorier om repræsentation (hvordan grupper fremstilles), generationing (hvordan aldersbaserede kategorier skabes og bruges), intersektionalitet (hvordan alder, køn, klasse m.m. krydser hinanden) og New Political Economy of Youth (hvordan politiske og økonomiske idéer former forventninger til unge).
Many development policies increasingly highlight young people as essential to achieving a wide range of goals. This trend is often called a "global turn to youth" and, according to some scholars, is linked to neoliberal logics such as market solutions, entrepreneurship, and individual responsibility. This thesis examines whether—and how—this trend appears in national development policy. Through an exploratory case study of Denmark’s official development cooperation with the Middle East and North Africa—the Danish Arab Partnership Programme (DAPP)—it analyzes how "youth" is represented in this context. Specifically, it applies a What's the Problem Represented to be? (WPR) analysis of DAPP’s 2022–2027 strategic framework, which investigates how the policy text defines problems and shapes proposed solutions. The analysis draws on theories of representation, generationing (how age-based categories are constructed and used), intersectionality (how age, gender, class, etc. intersect), and the New Political Economy of Youth (how political and economic ideas shape expectations and roles for young people).
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