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Causes for the Lack of Mobility Among Low-Status, Impoverished Rural Youths

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March 27, 2023
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Czibere, I. (2023). Causes for the Lack of Mobility Among Low-Status, Impoverished Rural Youths. CROSS-SECTIONS - Social Science Journal, 8(3), 134-152. https://doi.org/10.18392/metsz/2019/3/7
Abstract

This study explores the lack of mobility and the lack of motivation for mobility among poverty- stricken youths with low levels of education who live in small villages. I strive to find out why underprivileged young individuals stay in their local village instead of moving to areas with more abundant opportunities and employment. My manuscript also examines their family life and their relationship with their parents, and how those factors could impact their attachment to their village. The main question to analyze is whether young people stay in impoverished rural villages voluntarily or as a result of a lack of choice and a rational decision, or whether they are drifting. My analysis of the data indicates that the lack of mobility among destitute rural youths is not driven by free decisions. My results suggest that these young people belong to a drifting social group, not in charge of their own fate, unaware of the world beyond their immediate surroundings, uninformed, dependent, vulnerable, living in an environment based on mere reciprocity, and thus, in a sense, they are a marginalized social group.