지역사회에서 구성되는 청년 문제와 정책 담론 - 대구광역시 청년정책 기본계획에 대한 WPR 분석 - = Constructing Youth Issues at the Community Level: A WPR-Based Analysis of Daegu’s Youth Policy Master Plans

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to examine how youth issues are constructed through the Youth Policy Master Plans of Daegu Metropolitan City and to analyze which youth populations and structural realities remain invisible within this discourse. Focusing on the first, second, and third Youth Policy Master Plans of Daegu, this study analyzes the discursive construction of youth-related problems based on policy document analysis. The findings show that the problem framing of Daegu's youth policy has undergone a discursive shift over time—from a growth-oriented approach in the first plan, to life-course management in the second, and to vulnerability-focused protection in the third. Yet beneath these surface shifts, the core problem definition consistently centers on "youth out-migration" across all three plans. Correspondingly, policy interventions have been gradually reconfigured from "retaining youth" in the first plan, to "encouraging settlement" in the second, and to settlement management combined with governing youth vulnerability in the third. As a result, this out-migration-centered problem representation reveals a critical limitation in that it fails to adequately illuminate the structural constraints accumulated within the local community, as well as the experiences of "gray-zone youth" who remain in institutional blind spots between stability and vulnerability. Based on this analysis, the study argues that youth policy must shift from managing out-migration toward addressing the lived conditions and structural constraints facing youth who remain within the local community.