Changes in young people’s discourses about leaving home in Spain after the economic crisis
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Elsevier
Materia
Transition to adulthood Leaving home’s discourses Economic recession Qualitative analysis
Date
2023-01-10Referencia bibliográfica
N. Fuster et al. Changes in young people’s discourses about leaving home in Spain after the economic crisis. Advances in Life Course Research 55 (2023) 100526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2023.100526
Patrocinador
European Research Council (ERC); Proyect I + D + i: Aproximacion Multi-Metodologica al Compor- tamiento Residencial y la Vida Cotidiana (MARBEL) under the MCIN/AEI 740113 PID2020-119569GA-I00Résumé
recession, has led to an upturn in academic interest in this question. Nevertheless, the impact of the economic
recession on young adults’ housing imaginary has yet to be extensively addressed. This article analyses the way
social discourses on leaving home evolved before and after the economic downturn. Using a diachronic, qualitative
design to compare discussion groups from 2007 and 2014 in Spain, a relevant change can be observed:
flexible patterns of leaving home appear that were previously rejected or only mentioned by upper-middle class
young. Our findings highlight the way that expectations, values and norms about leaving home have altered,
opening the debate about how Spanish young people will approach this transition in the future, but also how
they did in the past.