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I. Transformations -- Reconceptualising inner city education? Marketisations, strategies and competition in the gentrified city -- Youth migration to Lima : vulnerability or opportunity, exclusion or network-building? -- Sleepless in Seoul : understanding sleepless youth and their practices at 24-hour cafes through neoliberal governmentality -- 'Live like a college student' : student loan debt and the college experience -- 'Everywhere feels like home' : transnational neoliberal subjects negotiating the future -- II. Intersections, inequalities -- Negotiating social and familial norms : women's labour market participation in rural Bangladesh and North India -- Marginalised youth perspecties and positive uncertainty in Addis Ababa and Kathmandu -- Infantilised parents and criminlised children : the frame of childhood in UK poverty discourse -- Learning to pay : the financialisation of childhood -- Immigration, employment precarity and masculinity in Filipino-Canadian families -- The undeserving poor and the happy poor : interrelations between the politics of global charity and austerity for young people in Britain -- III. Futures -- Looking towards the future : intersectionalities of race, class and place in young Columbians' lives --'My aim is to take over Zane Lowe' : young people's imagined futures at a community radio station -- Dependent subjects and financial inclusion : launching a credit union on a campus in Taiwan -- 'If you think about the future you are just troubling yourself' : uncertain futures among caregiving and non-caregiving youth in Zambia -- Conclusions and futures.