Análise lexical sobre o/a jovem nem-nem no documento trabalho decente e juventude/OIT

Abstract

Young people who neither study, work, or seek employment have been named neither-nor youth in different social contexts. Both in Brazil and other countries around the world, youth neither has nor-nor has occupied a prominent place in academia, in the media, and interventions by the State and other social actors, all seeking ways to act on the problem. Given this scenario, we seek to understand the notions built on young people named as neither-nor, as well as the proposals for control and regulation produced by different actors in society for them. Based on documental research, we present in this article the results of a lexical analysis carried out with the aid of the ALCESTE program – Lexical Analysis by Context of a Set of Text Segments. The results highlight the main semantic universes about the young people named neither in excerpts taken from eleven (11) editions of the document Decent Work and Youth of the International Labor Organization. We problematize some notions that invite us to think about the so-called young people neither as vulnerable subjects nor as a risk group as a dangerous class, without considering the social reproduction of our inequality.