Vulnerability of adolescents and youth in five municipalities of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua

Abstract

This article is based on the study “Socio-educational and economic situation of youth in a context of vulnerability” conducted in five coastal municipalities of the Southern Caribbean Autonomous Region. The study includes a survey conducted in 2012, together with 516 adolescents and young people aged fifteen to twenty-four, of indigenous, mestizo and Afro-descendant origin. The survey covered the variables of identity, family relationship, education, health, labor relationship, migration, community participation, youth organization, free time, values and family economy. The article analyzes the results of the survey based on a conceptual framework of vulnerability that identifies the sources that generate the vulnerability of young people from three dimensions - vital, institutional and socioeconomic insertion, and assesses opportunities and facilitating agents that can reduce this vulnerability.