Suzanne Naafs is a Lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology/Development Sociology at Leiden University, the Netherlands.Tracey Skelton is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore, and Visiting Professor at Loughborough University, UK.

Select Guide Rating

• 1. Introduction: Youthful futures? Aspirations, education and employment in Asia Suzanne Naafs and Tracey Skelton 2. From water to tears: extra-curricular activities and the search for substance in China’s universities Chun-Yi Sum 3. Learning by ‘design’: how undergraduates in Singapore learn to become engineers Arthur C. K. Chia and Mihye Cho 4. Rural youth and urban-based vocational training: gender, space and aspiring to ‘become someone’ Lyda Chea and Roy Huijsmans 5. Youth aspirations and employment in provincial Indonesia: a view from the lower middle classes Suzanne Naafs 6. ‘Every household will be a micro-enterprise’: a youth micro-loan scheme’s role in restructuring Nepal Amanda Snellinger 7. The precarious and the transitional: labor casualization and youth in post-bubble Japan Colin S. Smith 8. Opportunities, challenges, and transitions: educational aspirations of Pakistani migrant youth in Hong Kong Wai-chi Chee 9. Globalised Dreams, Local Constraints: Migration and Youth Aspirations in an Indian Regional Town Trent Brown, Timothy J. Scrase and Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase 10. Sunflowers, youthful protestors and political achievements: lessons from Taiwan Yu-Chieh Hsieh and Tracey Skelton

Suzanne Naafs is a Lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology/Development Sociology at Leiden University, the Netherlands.Tracey Skelton is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore, and Visiting Professor at Loughborough University, UK.

Select Guide Rating

• 1. Introduction: Youthful futures? Aspirations, education and employment in Asia Suzanne Naafs and Tracey Skelton 2. From water to tears: extra-curricular activities and the search for substance in China’s universities Chun-Yi Sum 3. Learning by ‘design’: how undergraduates in Singapore learn to become engineers Arthur C. K. Chia and Mihye Cho 4. Rural youth and urban-based vocational training: gender, space and aspiring to ‘become someone’ Lyda Chea and Roy Huijsmans 5. Youth aspirations and employment in provincial Indonesia: a view from the lower middle classes Suzanne Naafs 6. ‘Every household will be a micro-enterprise’: a youth micro-loan scheme’s role in restructuring Nepal Amanda Snellinger 7. The precarious and the transitional: labor casualization and youth in post-bubble Japan Colin S. Smith 8. Opportunities, challenges, and transitions: educational aspirations of Pakistani migrant youth in Hong Kong Wai-chi Chee 9. Globalised Dreams, Local Constraints: Migration and Youth Aspirations in an Indian Regional Town Trent Brown, Timothy J. Scrase and Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase 10. Sunflowers, youthful protestors and political achievements: lessons from Taiwan Yu-Chieh Hsieh and Tracey Skelton