..., and the introduction of youth and young adult migration programs to liberalize access to English language learning (Jeon 2012 ; Yoon 2015 ). With regard to migration, the government initiated a number of programs having to do with language exchange, internships, and labor migration (Yoon 2015 ). In particular...

... and microprocesses of social life in relation to urban inequality. Drawing on fifteen months of ethnographic research conducted between 2009 and 2011 and in-depth interviews with twenty-two South Korean young adults, the author analyzes how a host of young adults strive for their belonging as they confront their own...

... the former group adapted to the cutthroat competition, the latter accepted disenfranchisement. This article concludes by considering what politics these young people might develop that would enable them to combat their ever-decreasing chances of becoming self-sustaining adults. Copyright 2015 by Duke...

.... Chen’s online store attracted many young adults who enthusiastically entered bidding wars for her services. While she initially took all offers, the volume of requests quickly allowed her to be selective. She soon began choosing only...

... by brokers because she has no parents to care for her. As soon as the adult Mokran witnesses this, she cries. The scene, in weaving an overlapping complex web in which the adult Mokran goes back to North Korea and where the young Mokran goes into an asylum, dissects the tragic image of strangers...

... marginalization and alienation. Jung peeks behind Seoul’s facade to reveal the tenuous nature of belong- ing under conditions of increasing urban inequality in Asia. “Precarious Seoul” uses the cases of three young adults living in new forms of substan...

... thrive on direct audience par- ticipation, Idol aims to cultivate a consumer- oriented generation of youth to expand its human and cultural capital. Like other Idol programs, Vietnam Idol exclusively prefers young adult contestants aged eighteen...

...: University of Michigan Press, 2002). 11. Fengshu Liu, “Constructing the Autonomous Middle-Class Self in Today’s China: The Case of Young-Adult Only-Children University Students,” Journal of Youth Studies 11 (2008), 198...

... 2019a : 133), and many of my interlocutors raised now-adult foster children from the time they were young. Foster parents receive a stipend to cover daily needs and schooling, but many pay some expenses out of pocket. Many foster families have long-term, affectively significant parent-child...

... with.” As an object that both winked and clung, Dakko-chan not only embodied familial embrace but also flirtatious suggestion and relentless desire. Correspondingly, although Dakko-chan was a children's toy, young adults also coveted the doll, latching onto its fetishistic connotations. Because Dakko-chan could...

..., the video concluded with five key verb phrases to sum up advertising: “to imagine,” “to create,” “to communicate,” “to move,” “to make widely known.” The video was modified in 2013 to show young adults as narrators, reflecting the museum's popularity with university students. But the message...

... depictions of violence common to sh nen manga for young boys, and seinen manga for adult men. A Brief History of Sketching Semitism in Japan While a prolonged discussion of Jewish representation in modern Japanese literature and popular culture is beyond the scope of this article, manga and proto- manga...

.... Participants’ accounts were contextualized through observation and informal unstructured interviews with young people in the villages. Local government officials, teachers in a primary school, and adult caregivers—including grandmothers, aunts, fathers, other family members, and neighbors—were also interviewed...

... that advocate at best moderation and at worst abstinence responded by articulat- ing widespread adult anxiety onto the fear of rampant sexual exploration and experimentation spearheaded by the young. Motivation crisis was thus effectively described...

... conditions in the interest of national devel- opment, many young adults choose to embrace more risk and uncertainty by attempting to earn an income from activities not normally acknowledged as productive work. This issue interprets the recent rise...

..., terms. Indeed, I would argue that in posing these questions, Lu Xun has placed us within a second, and structurally parallel, moment of modernist mise-en-abyme. How can the children be saved by adults who have yet to be (and indeed, cannot...

..., forcing people to radically alter their life scripts. In the Working Poor documentary, for example, painful montages of photos from interviewees’ earlier lives mark them as victims of unexpected falls into theretofore unthinkable poverty. Especially for young adults, institutional networks of support...

... the world. Comprising young, Asian American male producers, Bananapocalypse brings together Justin Lin, arguably the premiere Hollywood director of the millennial generation, and two of YouTube’s top twenty biggest megastars, Ryan Higa and Kevin...

... highbrow publica- tions (magazines for young women such as JoseiJishin, for adult women such as Fujin @-on, and for mixed adult audiences such as Gendai no me), the tale of mother-son incest knits together two plots. The first narrative...

.... Although it was not an easy task, and it took two years of grassroots community orga- nizing, coalition building with adult organizations, and vigilant contact with her of ce, young people did bring to her attention an issue...