Ferreira, Vítor Sérgio2018-12-102018-12-102018Ferreira, V. S. (2018). Youth and generations in times of crisis: Portugal in the global situation. Lobo, M. C., Silva, F. C. da, Zúquete, J. P. (Eds.), Changing societies: legacies and challenges. Vol. 2. Citizenship in crisis, pp. 135-160. Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais978-972-671-504-7http://hdl.handle.net/10451/35732The discourse on generations is, presently, prolific and widespread in the public and political spheres. There is a sequence of letters to identify age cohorts born in distinct decades (generation “x”, “y” or “z”), as well as multiple categories to describe today’s young people as a generation distinct from the previous ones. The label Millennials – a chronological qualification initiated by Howe and Strauss (2000) to name the young people born after 1980 – became the most popular generational category in the media, underlining supposed specificities of the age cohorts that live the transition to adulthood in the turn of the millennium or later.engYouthMillennialsbook part10.31447/ics9789726715047.06