This book provides an engagingaccount of the moral lives of young black South Africans once the struggle against apartheid ended and took away their object of political resistance.It shows howpartial-parenting, partial-schooling, and pervasive poverty contributes to how a group of young people construct right and wrong andwhat rules govern their behavior.

Around the world today, young people are being called upon to develop civic competence and carry the burden of forging a political future in the midst of impoverishment, exclusion and inequality. In societies that have experienced civil war, military occupation, mass immigration of displaced people or social conflict, the conditions under which young people attempt to build their citizenship are not well understood. Youth Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging contributes to the field of youth citizenship studies by purposively exploring the experiences of young adults in the context of...