Namibia: Unemployment Becomes Industry for the Youth

17 September 2014

Windhoek — To the unemployed Namibian youth, unemployment has also become an industry which not everyone will understand, until they are unemployed.

Life in the unemployment industry recording the experiences of unemployed youths in Namibia in their own words, is a study by Ndeshi Namupala from the Department of Sociology at the University of Namibia among the unemployed youths in the regions of Khomas and Ohangwena. The study brings stories of how young people experiences unemployment in their everyday lives. The study is based on a 14-day self-completion diary in which the youths wrote what it mean to be unemployed in their everyday lives, record how they spent time as unemployed individuals, whether or not they went out to look for work and what type of job they aspired to have. Therein they also had to indicate how often they received support such as clothes, food and money and from whom?

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