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Community Development Journal Advance Access published online on August 22, 2005
Community Development Journal, doi:10.1093/cdj/bsi096
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Including Young Mothers: Community-based participation and the continuum of active citizenship

Saara Greene 1*

1 Assistant Professor and Director of Field Education at the School of Social Work, York University, Kinsmen Building, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Saara Greene, E-mail: sgreene{at}yorku.ca


  Abstract

In the United Kingdom, the role of the active citizen is often understood in terms of the importance and value attached to community-based citizen involvement. However, the structural issues that prevent people from participating are often ignored. Drawing on in-depth interviews with twenty young mothers living in Greater Pilton, Edinburgh, this paper argues that the involvement of young mothers in their community must be viewed as existing along a ‘continuum of active citizenship’ that highlights the factors that influence how and when young mothers participate in their communities as well as the barriers that young mothers experience regarding their inclusion in community based participation.


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