Citations:waithood

English citations of waithood

Noun: "a period of limbo faced by young college graduates in developing countries, in which activities belonging to the traditional transition into adulthood, such as marriage and buying a home, are put off to allow the securing of employment or money"

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• 2007, Diane Singerman, “The Economic Imperatives of Marriage: Emerging Practices and Identities Among Youth in the Middle East”, in Working paper (Middle East Youth Initiative)‎^[1], number 6:

  Economists speak of the phenomenon of “wait unemployment,” or enduring long periods of unemployment, particularly by educated young people in countries with large public sectors, to secure a high paying ‘permanent’ position with good benefits. Ina similar vein, many young people in Egypt and throughout the region experience “wait adulthood” or “waithood” as they negotiate their prolonged adolescence and remain single for long periods of time while trying to save money to marry.

• 2009, Navtej Dhillon & Tarik Yousef, "Looking Ahead: Making Markets and Institutions Work for Young People", in Generation in Waiting: The Unfulfilled Promise of Young People in the Middle East (eds. Navtej Dhillon & Tarik Yousef), The Brookings Institution (2009), →ISBN, page 248:

  Knowledge is lacking on how young people make use of their time during the period of "waithood" (the period of time spent waiting between schooling and employment) and how they interpret market signals.

• 2009, Ben Simpfendorfer, The New Silk Road: How a Rising Arab World Is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China, Palgrave Macmillan (2009), →ISBN, page 109:

  Young Arabs who do not have sufficient wasta must wait long periods before finding a full-time job. Arab economists call this "waithood." It describes the situation of young men who are still living at home and working in part-time jobs while searching for full-time jobs.

• 2009, "The fever under the surface", The Economist, 23 July 2009:

  The frustrations they experience as they turn into adults—notably the years of "waithood" that are typical before they find jobs and, therefore, before they can marry and enjoy sex (premarital relations are taboo in much of the Arab world)—are hardly the stuff of which political revolutions are generally made.

• 2011, Jack Shenker, "Egypt's frustrated young wait for their lives to begin, and dream of revolution", The Observer, 23 January 2011:

  Last year's UN human development report for Egypt said many of the nation's young people were trapped in "waithood", defined as a prolonged period "during which they simply wait for their lives to begin".

• 2012, Magdi Amin et al., After the Spring: Economic Transitions in the Arab World, Oxford University Press (2012), →ISBN, page 59:

  In Jordan, when the government introduced programs to significantly increase job creation, the openings were filled with foreign workers as young Jordanians preferred to wait for better jobs, entering what has been called "waithood": a stretch of time that a large proportion of Arab youth spend waiting to marry, move out of their parent's house, and become full-fledge adults.

• 2012, James L. Gelvin, The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know, Oxford University Press (2012), →ISBN, page 20:

  The lack of employment opportunities for young people in the Arab world has given rise to a phenomenon one political scientist calls "waithood," a period in which youths "wait for (good) jobs, wait for marriage and intimacy, and wait for full participation in their societies."