Youth in the Global South face material differences in social, economic, and political contexts that distinctly shape the nature, obstacles, and opportunities offor their wellbeing. Compared to their Northern counterparts, young adults in the Global South face significant hardship, such as joblessness and poverty, digital inequality through restricted access to digital infrastructure and services, and far fewer social nets with regard to unemployment.

Research in this area focuses on strategies for engaging those who are Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEETS), as well as consider how education might better prepare young people for what will be an overwhelming technological future. In this regard we are particularly interested in the increasing strengthening the relationship between inequality in the digital realm and its effect on opportunities for wellbeing, and where it is important to understand how young people construct themselves as relational subjects in a digital age.

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