Resumen

RIVERA-AGUILERA, Guillermo. Governing vulnerable youth: an analysis of the youth employment policy discourse in Chile. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2016, vol.11, n.21, pp.192-213. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2016.21.14.

This article is an inquiry into how vulnerable youth have been governed from the perspective of the youth employment policy discourse in Chile. The analysis of this discourse was drawn from public documents drafted between 2008 and 2015. Four streams of ideas were identified in the Chilean youth employment policy: a) the equity-inequity discourse; b) the human capital discourse; c) vulnerable youth; and d) productive youth. From the standpoint of an analysis based on a governmentality approach, this article discusses the policy elements that prescribe forms of «conduct» for vulnerable youth and their inclusion into the labor market.

Palabras llave : governmentality; vulnerable youth; employment policies; discourse analysis.

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