Abstract Three: Joint analysis – experiences of marginalized lives In this abstract we will present how marginalized young people, professionals, and researchers from Sweden, Denmark and Spain worked together in an analytical workshop that created and developed a new transnational perspective on pedagogy and social work. This methodological approach was based on the critical education perspective and participatory and collaborative research traditions (Freire 1973, 1991; Fals Borda, 1990; 2001; Martí, 2000, Husted & Tofteng 2014) and it was adapted to each country specific research experiences and needs. The results illustrate the young people's joint analysis of experiences of being marginalized with both similarities and differences across the national contexts. The dominated common themes across the national context were about police violence and racism. In each country, the researchers and the partner organizations organized local workshops with marginalized youth to study their local conditions and social reality. These local analyses were the basis for transnational workshops with marginalized youth from the three participant countries. The transnational workshop can be characterized as analytic workshop and the method used to structure it has been developed by the partners from 3B, inspired by the ‘future workshop’ (Jungk & Mullert 1986, Tofteng & Bladt 2020). The method included three phases. In the first phase, the young participants shared their experiences of growing up in marginalized positions and being excluded from society. In phase two, the young people were asked to describe what they imagine it would be like to be part of society – i.e. what inclusion looks like for them. In the third and final phase, the young people were asked to illustrate their own actions for their inclusion in society. This presentation will present further the analytic work of the youth.

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