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Causes for the Lack of Mobility Among Low-Status, Impoverished Rural Youths

Summary/Abstract: This study explores the lack of mobility and the lack of motivation for mobility among povertystricken youths with low levels of education who live in small villages. I strive to find out whyunderprivileged young individuals stay in their local village instead of moving to areas withmore abundant opportunities and employment. My manuscript also examines their family lifeand their relationship with their parents, and how those factors could impact their attachmentto their village. The main question to analyze is whether young people stay in impoverishedrural villages voluntarily or as a result of a lack of choice and a rational decision, or whetherthey are drifting. My analysis of the data indicates that the lack of mobility among destitute rural youths is not driven by free decisions. My results suggest that these young people belongto a drifting social group, not in charge of their own fate, unaware of the world beyond theirimmediate surroundings, uninformed, dependent, vulnerable, living in an environment based onmere reciprocity, and thus, in a sense, they are a marginalized social group.

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