Young people and inequality: marginality as a case of epistemological fallacy

This study investigates new forms of marginality through the most recent theoretical acquisitions developed within youth studies. In particular, we analyse youth marginality as a product of individualisation contradictions. This perspective considers marginality as lack of participation and as a specific case of epistemological fallacy theory. This approach is confirmed by the results of a case study on immigrant and Italian adolescents, which show that individualisation is produced by the systemic conditions of society.