Boundary Youth Work - Bridging and Community: Building in Marginalized Residential Urban Areas

How do youth projects facilitate co-production of inclusive communities, where marginalized youth may become legitimate participants together with diverse youth? How does boundary youth work engage youth, staff, and local citizens to make a difference locally for the young people, and their (life and learning) trajectories in critical transition in youth life? Practice research is conducted with
youth projects in Vollsmose, Odense and Mjølnerparken, Copenhagen. Boundary youth work is explored as counter-hegemonic practices in dialectic relationship with hegemonic (formal educational, ghetto-laws and criminal preventive) policy and practices. We explore ‘liminal boundary -relations’ as neither ordinary leisure nor just education. They are not ordinary education, but still they conduct learning-activities of a transformative kind. This liminality (Stenner) requires a wider understanding of what learning is for (Lave) and how it can be organized around societal causes as a ‘common third’.