The current cohort of young adults have grown up as ‘natives’ of the new social organisation. They have learned to live in new spatial and temporal dimensions, characterised by the mediation of new technologies, the possibility–real or virtual–of travelling easily and coming into everyday contact with different cultures and points of view. They have learned to take into account the uncertainty related to the persistence of economic instability, the rapid changes in labour markets, the risks of environmental disasters, the fragility of democracies and the threat of violence and terrorism of a constant ‘war at home’. So as not to succumb to subalternity and marginality, they have needed to learn new languages, new codes and new rules to adapt to the different contexts in which they must act. In this book we consider observation of the practices and experiences of young people facing the challenges of a globalised society, the uncertainty of the future, the continuous transformations of the job market and the growing presence of cultural diversity as yielding important insights into how the overall society is transforming. It is from the specific standpoint of a ‘generational gaze’that this book analyses, in situated European contexts, the locations of agency as ‘politics of the present’.