ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates that although global insecurities have exposed and heightened some young people's sense of fear, the most salient of these fears are embedded in threats other than terrorism, and encountered by young people within their everyday lives. It focuses specifically upon the local dynamics of the other fears, and their implications for the kinds of social participation upon which active citizenship depends. The chapter utilises social and democratic notion of citizenship, taken from the influential work of Marshall, who insisted that citizen rights refer not only to the political and civil rights embedded in national constitutions, but also to a spectrum of social rights. Pantazis has employed the notion of vulnerability to demonstrate that the poorest people in society suffer most, both from insecurities relating to crime and from situations including job loss, financial debt and illness.
