Olivier Galland: "The concerns of young people no longer have a political translation"

Olivier Galland is a sociologist, emeritus research director at the CNRS, and author of

Radiography of French Youth Today,

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- When political discourse is addressed to young people, it is most often by postulating that “

Olivier GALLAND.

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The youth of France is not as unhappy as they say, provided we go into a little detail.

In our survey, 82% of young people say they are “

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Other surveys have shown that they are also overwhelmingly optimistic about their personal future.

But of course, in reality there is not a single youth.

We interviewed 8,000 young people with the Institut Montaigne, and showed that young people who have a diploma, and even more so a higher education diploma, are doing rather well - despite a transition period before employment on a permanent contract which is often difficult.

At the age of 30, 80% of young graduates have a stable job...

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