Abstract
ABSTRACT This article explores what youth movements do when their political participation in international organizations (IOs) is limited. Using the examples of young migrants in the European Union and transnationally organized working children, we argue that these actors resort to social media to make their arguments visible. While IOs have been striving to become more ‘open’ to affected (youth) actors, the two cases show that their access to policy debates remains limited. We argue that this is linked to the ambivalent representation of their subjectivity: young migrants and working children are considered to be particularly vulnerable and at the same time they are denied political agency. Given limited room for self-representation in IO debates, social media posts represent a practice of aesthetic reversal. Through Twitter (X) and Instagram posts these youth actors challenge the ways they are represented in and by IOs and claim political subjecthood.
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