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The forced mobility of unemployed Portuguese young people Carlos Ribeiro
The Brasserie Room in Sutton is ready to welcome its first customers. The tables have been set. The red sofas with their throw pillows signal good taste and organization. The menus are waiting to guide the first customers in giving their orders. On the esplanade outside, a few plants and discrete lighting invite customers to enter. Jessica arrived two hours ago. This top-quality welcome setting is the result of her work. Two months ago she was living in Lisbon, unemployed and in despair.
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She feels that she has succeeded in the chances she has taken because she is very obviously open to learning and is dissatisfied with her knowledge in view of the challenges that she encountered and is encountering in giving shape to her plans for her life.
“This isn’t what I want to do for the rest of my life, but I’m happy to be working and to be able to count on a pay check at the end of the month,” the 18-year-old Portuguese woman with African forebears confesses. In secondary school she dreamed of becoming a fashion designer. Now she’s waiting tables in London.
YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT | DESEMPREGO JOVEM | MARÇO 2013 |