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Contents: Introduction: young people and contradictions of inclusion Andreas Walther; Part One: Risks and contradictions in young people's transitions to work: Yo-yo-transitions and misleading trajectories: towards integrated transition policies for young adults in Europe Manuela du Bois-Reymond and Andreu López Blasco; Youth unemployment and the risk of social exclusion: comparative analysis of qualitative data Thomas Kieselbach; Part Two: European research on young people and transition policies: Transition policies: strategies of actors and employment policies for young people in Europe Lorenzo Cachón Rodríguez; The European strategy for youth employment: a discursive analysis Amparo Serrano Pascual; State policies for youth unemployment in the European Union: rights, responsibilities and life-long learning Wallace McNeish and Patricia Loncle; Transitional labour markets and training: re-balancing flexibility and security for life-long learning Harm van Lieshout and Ton Wilthagen; The third sector: ghetto for the disadvantaged or springboard toward integration? Paul Burgess; The art of learning: empowerment through performing arts Steven Miles; Part Three: Dilemmas and perspectives of integrated transition policies: Empowerment or 'cooling out'? Dilemmas and contradictions of transition policies Andreas Walther; Competence and employability Sven Mørch and Barbara Stalder; Of roofs and knives: the dilemmas of recognising informal learning José Machado Pais and Axel Pohl; Flexibility and security: the supposed dilemma of transition policies Barbara Stauber, Siyka Kovacheva and Harm van Lieshout; 'Disadvantage': transition policies between social construction and the needs of vulnerable youth Dermot Stokes and René Bendit.