On 12 June, at 11:00, in the Assembly Hall of the Faculty of Social Sciences, David Gil Solsona defended his doctoral thesis titled “Complex emancipation. Changes in the juvenile independence process in Spain from 1990 to 2020 in comparative perspective.”
The Youth Chair of the Universitat de València and the Valencian Institute for Young People (IVAJ) both attended the defence of this thesis, in which the author analysed the changes in the models for juvenile emancipation in Spain over the period of 1990-2020 with a specific focus on the de-standardisation of the process and the diffusion of intermediate forms of the process.
The analyses point to a relative modification of the classical linear model, typical of emancipation in Mediterranean countries, and toward the spread of more flexible ways of becoming independent: moving away from home without financial independence, living in non-family circumstances, such as shared flats, or alone; or even alternating life with parents with life outside the home.
This modified model of emancipation is the consequence of the great changes that Spanish society has undergone in two specific areas: the weakening of the ownership-based housing model, and the spread of new family values.
