Both these trends have contributed to the risks of exclusion and disengagement for a number of young adults who find themselves in vulnerable positions, for example as migrants or NEETs (not in education, emplo
Richards’ reference, above, to “age-grades” in East Africa, and the contrasting absence of a role for such grades among the Bemba, may also be thought to undermine Malón’s claim that “an anthropological constant is the fundamental organization throughout society into age groups or generati...