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Author Sommers, Marc.

Title Stuck [electronic resource] : Rwandan youth and the struggle for adulthood / Marc Sommers.

Imprint Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press ; [Washington, D.C.] : published in association with the United States Institute of Peace, 2011.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xxiv, 281 p. : ill.
Series Studies in security and international affairs
Studies in security and international affairs.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part 1. Introduction: youth views: 1. Youth in waithood -- 2. Doing research in Rwanda -- Part 2. Fear of failure: rural youth lives: 3. Living in a vertical world: rural youth and the government -- 4. Low horizons --5. Striving for adulthood -- Part 3. Quest for cash: urban youth lives: 6. Desperation on the new frontier: urban youth and the government --7. An inconstant existence -- 8. Prostitution, aids and fatalism -- Part 4. Visions and realities: Rwanda and beyond: 9. Stuck youth.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Youth -- Rwanda.
Youth -- Rwanda -- Social conditions.
Youth -- Rwanda -- Economic conditions.
Youth and violence -- Rwanda.
Rwanda -- Social conditions.
Rwanda -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0820338907 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780820338910 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0820338915 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820338903
9780820338927 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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