Well-being amid (im)mobility struggles: Youth's experiences in Casamance, Senegal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Large numbers of young people worldwide, especially in the Global South, wish to migrate but lack the capacity to do so, with potentially detrimental consequences for their well-being and mental health. Termed 'involuntary immobility', this phenomenon is numerically larger than migration, but remains for now a largely underexplored area of research. Focusing on young Senegalese living in Casamance, this paper contributes to the limited literature on the implications of immobility for subjective well-being. It does so by (i) considering different degrees and types of involuntary immobility and their intersections, (ii) laying out the implications of (interacting) social and spatial immobilities for well-being with particular attention to youth's agency in navigating a lac

SUBMITTER: Debray A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11329987 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature