ADJ.
able, desperate
VERB + FOOTLOOSE
move
FOOTLOOSE + NOUN
youth
PREP.
in, on
ADV.
also
adj
Tending to travel or do as one pleases; readily without many commitments or responsibility.
He was footloose in his youth.
Because we often imagine that immigrants are constantly on the move, footloose, able to change course at any moment.
Of a sail: not properly secured at the bottom.
[…] They are footloose but also desperate, squeezed by rising inequality and a frayed safety net.