Negotiating Labor Under Patriarchal Pandemic Conditions: Female NEET in Tunisia

突尼斯四分之一的人口是没有接受教育、就业或培训(NEET)的青年，他们特别容易遭受挫折、社会孤立和政治抗议(世界银行，2014年；马奎尔，2015年)。据估计，随着新冠肺炎对全球经济和突尼斯经济的冲击对青年的打击最大，青年NEET的数量将大幅上升(OECD2020)。对跨学科研究日益增长的兴趣揭示了用简化的经济解决方案解决当代失业问题的缺点，产生了应用跨学科思维来充分解决青年工作经验的复杂性的需要(Huang 2016；Kareem 2011，Elyachar 2005；Zouari 2014；Kabbani 2019)。随着人道主义机构在流行病恢复期间追求体面的工作目标，妇女如何以及以什么方式谈判跨越社会-空间边界的流动性问题已成为国际发展领域的一个重要研究重点。针对将青年观点纳入失业和就业不足政策制定的需要(Barford和Coombe，2019；Barford和Cieslik，2019；O‘Higgins，2017；Restless Development，2019)，本研究将“NEET”作为一个研究类别，探讨突尼斯妇女中与工作有关的多重立场，目的是更透彻地分析青年女性NEET与就业的关系。

A quarter of Tunisia's population are youth not in education, employment or training (NEET), and particularly vulnerableto frustration, social isolation and political protest (World Bank 2014; Maguire 2015). It is estimated that the number ofyouth NEET will rise dramatically as COVID-19 shocks to the global and Tunisian economy hit youth the hardest (OECD2020). Growing interest in interdisciplinary research reveals the drawbacks to approaching contemporary unemploymentissues with simplified economic solutions, creating a need for the application of interdisciplinary thinking to fully addressthe complexity of the youth experience in relation to work (Huang 2016; Kareem 2011, Elyachar 2005; Zouari 2014;Kabbani 2019). As humanitarian institutions pursue decent work goals in the midst of pandemic recovery, the question ofhow and by what means women negotiate mobility through socio-spatial boundaries has become an important researchfocus for the field of international development. Responding to the need to integrate youth perspectives in policyformation on unemployment and underemployment (Barford and Coombe 2019; Barford and Cieslik 2019; O'Higgins2017; Restless Development 2019), this study utilizes 'NEET' as a research category and explores multiplepositionalities relating to work among women in Tunisia, aiming to provide a more thorough analysis of the perspectivesof female youth NEET with regards to their relationship with employment.