June 4-6, 2025 (SAVE THE DATE)
12CEA, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
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SSEA Webinars
April 2025
A Cross-National Analysis of the Labor of Emerging Adults in a Time of Widening Economic Injustice
Presenters:
Valérie Cohen-Scali, Ph.D., Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France
Gabriela Aisenson, PhD., University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina
Donna Marie San Antonio, EdD., Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, USA
Join Dr. Valerie Cohen-Scali, Dr. Gabriela Aisenson, and Dr. San Antonio to learn about international research on emerging adults without a diploma in seven developed and developing countries. The presenters will examine the differences and similarities of these young people’s representations of work as a function of different contextual and work situations and discuss implications for practice with social and economic justice at the ethical core of what we do as mentors, teachers, and counselors going forward.
Date: April 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM CEST/9:30 AM EST
Zoom registration link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/meeting/register/IsCe1pZSSEemRjAJeeDzpw
Hosts: Byron G. Adams, Melissa Fenton
May 2025
Transitions to adulthood in sub-Saharan Africa: Comparative trends and case studies from coming-of-age in Senegal
Date: May 15, 2025 6:00 PM GST/3:00 PM CEST/9:00 AM EST
Registration Link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/meeting/register/rN6f_TZaRNe5u9S-nQH6mw
Presenter: Luca Maria Pesando is Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYU-AD). Before joining NYU-AD, he was an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Demography in the Department of Sociology and Centre on Population Dynamics, McGill University. His research lies in the areas of social, economic, and digital demography. He is interested in issues of family poverty, inequality, gender, social stratification, intra- and inter-generational processes, technology adoption, and interactions between life-cycle events and human capital accumulation. His overarching research aim is to produce better knowledge on the link between family change, gender, and educational inequalities in areas where these dynamics are changing rapidly and scant research is available.
Large-scale evidence suggests that, despite persistently high fertility, transition to adulthood markers have been delayed in sub-Saharan Africa. This study adopts a mixed-methods approach to investigate transition to adulthood markers in sub-Saharan Africa. We explore family formation trajectories among women and men in Senegal, as well as young adults’ narratives around delayed family formation. We do so by combining data from the Demographic and Health Surveys with rich longitudinal in-depth interviews among young Senegalese adults. Findings from quantitative analyses reveal a pronounced delay in age at first sex and age at first union, especially until the 1980s birth cohort, after which we observe a plateau. Findings from qualitative analyses identify three cross-cutting themes behind the observed delays, namely i) lack of economic preconditions for marriage, tied to labor-market insecurities and informality; ii) perceptions of adverse generational change, whereby young adults witness higher hardship today vis-à-vis their parents’ generation, and iii) ambivalent dynamics of strong social control in extended family networks.
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