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Introduction

Vulnerability Across the Life Course

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Abstract

This issue defines vulnerability as a key interdisciplinary concept for understanding life trajectories. Moreover, it develops a life course framework to study vulnerability along three structuring axes of research: multidimensionality, multilevel, and multidirectionality.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The authors thank Annahita Ehsan for revising the English in the last version of this article.

FUNDING

This publication benefited from the support of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES – Overcoming Vulnerability: Life Course Perspectives, financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The authors are grateful to the Swiss National Science Foundation for providing financial assistance.

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Funding

This publication benefited from the support of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES – Overcoming Vulnerability: Life Course Perspectives, financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The authors are grateful to the Swiss National Science Foundation for providing financial assistance.

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