Òscar Prieto-Flores

• University of Girona

This study investigated the experiences of college-student mentors to gain a nuanced understanding of ‘humility’ in higher education (HE) and to illuminate how it operates within mentoring dyads. Seventeen mentors, comprising both undergraduate (9) and graduate (8) students, were interviewed in this exploratory qualitative research. One-on-one semi...

Key rural stakeholders at European, national, regional and local levels lack the knowledge and tools to design future-oriented policies, programmes and services aiming at younger rural generations aged 18-29. Specifically, these stakeholders are faced with the lack of methods and indicators for capturing these youths future visions in multiple doma...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of college-age mentors in a school-based mentoring (SBM) program with the aim of understanding mentor perceptions of “power.” Design/methodology/approach Seventeen mentors, comprising both undergraduate (9) and graduate (8) students, participated in this exploratory qualitative study...

En este estudio piloto, efectuado entre febrero y junio de 2022, se realiza una evaluación de resultados, con métodos mixtos, de los programas desarrollados por FUNDAEC en la localidad de Tuchín, Córdoba. Nuestro objetivo es observar a través de escalas validadas internacionalmente las diferencias existentes en algunos indicadores como movilidad so...

This article analyzes the extent to which the councils of five Catalan cities have modified their integration policies. The structural transformations of contemporary societies have had a great impact on city councils and local integration policies, especially from the point of view of planning and policy orientation. The article studies the polici...

El presente artículo pretende comprender los mecanismos de resistencia que utilizan los niños en situación de calle en Tánger, en el norte de Marruecos. Desde una mirada de agencia hacia ellos, este trabajo reflexiona sobre su participación en el espacio público, así como sobre los cambios necesarios que los profesionales que trabajan con ellos con...

Stemming from the research "The Fourth Impulse of Pedagogical Renewal in Spain", this article addresses three key issues: firstly, and as a terminological exercise, it differentiates three concepts that are too often treated interchangeably. These are: reform, renewal and innovation. Secondly, some of the defining aspects that, in our view, charact...

In 2020, the European Commission relaunched the Youth Guarantee (YG) Programme, its flagship policy for youth unemployment since 2013. This action aims to renew the European Union efforts on promoting the employment of those below 30 years old in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. All EU member states adapted this EU directive to their nationa...

Subjective well-being is of paramount importance when support is offered to young individuals seeking employment and social inclusion in general. The present study looks at different dimensions of youth well-being and the growing demands for skills to enable labour market integration. Based on survey data, this article examines the relationships be...

Este estudio tiene como objetivo ahondar en como el apoyo de la mentoría social en los adolescentes de origen inmigrante favorece la adquisición de la lengua de instrucción del contexto de acogida. Para ello, en este estudio se analizaron los principales efectos que tienen relaciones de mentoría de los proyectos Ruiseñor y EnTàndem en Cataluña. Cor...

A myriad of factors influence young people’s vulnerability and the likelihood of becoming NEET. Moreover, the share of young NEETs in European countries is very high. Institutional and governmental initiatives aiming to promote the inclusion of young people in the labour market are of paramount importance. However, the socio-economic conditions and...

The NEET phenomenon in southern Europe is particularly alarming. Most studies have focused on analysing the socio-demographic characteristics of NEET and policies directed towards them, but more research is needed regarding the psychological aspects that underlie this condition. This paper, grounded in the bioecological model, aims to analyse the p...

One decade on from the launch of the European Youth Guarantee Initiative, there is still limited research into its efficacy in rural areas. In Spain, a country with significant urban-rural disparity, the complexity of the governmental structure across the country has made investigations into the effectiveness of youth employment strategies less com...

The Covid-19 pandemic provoked critical changes to welfare in Europe, requiring the dematerialisation of programmes and services while relying mainly on remote support. This study aims to present insights into how European public employment services have coped and adapted to the pandemic challenges, particularly regarding the digitalisation and del...

Some contemporary social phenomena, despite secularization, are still linked to religion. However, this same secularization seems to have accompanied a progressive process of religious illiteracy. Therefore, the capacity to address religious inspired issues is lower than the magnitude of the problems at work, be violent right-wing movement and Isla...

NEET (‘’Not in Education, Employment, or Training’’) refers to those who are unemployed, not in school or vocational training programmes. The percentage of NEETs in the age category 15-34 in EU is 13.60% ; the proportion is higher in rural areas. High importance to deal with rural NEETs from policy, social and other types of planning perspectives....

El seguimiento y evaluación de las parejas en los programas de mentoría se han destacado como elementos de vital importancia para el desarrollo de un apoyo social efectivo en los jóvenes. Con el fin de mejorar los procedimientos que aseguren la calidad de las relaciones, este artículo presenta la experiencia de implementar una aplicación digital qu...

Mobility is a fundamental and important characteristic of human activity: it fulfils the basic need of going from one location to the other in order to partake in employment, kinship, and education [...]

Este artículo ofrece una revisión sistemática de las distintas metodologías, técnicas y estrategias en la investigación evaluativa de la mentoría social dirigida a jóvenes vulnerables. Se analizan treinta y cinco evaluaciones de programas durante la década 2010-2020. Los resultados obtenidos muestran el uso mayoritario de una metodología experiment...

The growing number of unaccompanied immigrant youths arriving through Mediterranean routes from North and West African countries to Spain is challenging established political and social interventions. Their transition to adulthood and resettlement is made more difficult by the physical and geographical distance with their parents and the availabili...

In the last few years, the number of unaccompanied youths arriving in Europe has increased steadily. During their settlement in host countries, they are exposed to a great variety of vulnerabilities, which have an impact on their mental health. This research examines the effects of participation in a mentoring programme on the psychological and edu...

This study examined the change processes associated with the Nightingale project, a community-based mentoring programme whose aim is to promote the social inclusion of minors of immigrant origin. A pre-test–post-test study was conducted on a group of 158 young immigrants between the ages of 8 and 15, in which the influence of the mentoring programm...

p>El debat sobre com apoderar als nostres joves a través de diferents tipus de suports és cada vegada més rellevant en un context on el nombre de menors no acompanyats i joves que migren sols o soles ha augmentat considerablement. En aquest article els autors presenten la mentoria social com un suport eficaç que s’ha estat posant en pràctica en dif...

In the last few years the number of local consultations has increased considerably in Catalonia. This formula was extended, from 2014 onwards, not only due to the knock-on effect of the self-determination referendums but also in order to resolve contentious issues related to the symbolic and urban management of public spaces. In this article we pre...

Aquest estudi presenta dades amb l’objectiu d’analitzar les expectatives educatives i ocupacionals dels estudiants immigrants de classe treballadora que varen participat en un programa de mentoria en el passat. Per tal de realitzar un seguiment longitudinal d’estudi de cas dels mentors, els adolescents immigrants van ser enquestats abans i després...

Durante los últimos años ha emergido un renovado interés por los referéndums y las consultas ciudadanas, tanto en ámbitos nacionales como locales. Se trata de formas de democracia directa que han sido poco estudiadas hasta el momento. Este artículo propone un marco conceptual para analizar cinco estudios de caso, experiencias locales que han permit...

Abstract This article begins with an observation of how, after two decades of municipal experiences in citizen participation, Catalonia-like many places in Europe-is witnessing the emergence of new citizen consultation practices. These new practices, exercised through voting, fall within the framework of direct democracy and need to be contextualis...

Most of the existing body of research on formal youth mentoring has focused on programs in the United States, with few inquiries into how mentoring programs have taken shape in other contexts. In this article, we compare and contrast programs in the United States and continental Europe to investigate how context shapes the ways in which programs ar...

The process of the independence of Catalonia has generated great interest on the part of international analysts as well as among a part of the citizenry while also producing disputes and controversy that have grown with the passage of time. This controversy lies, at first glance, in the opposition of interests defended by independentist sectors (wh...

This chapter describes how the migration crisis is constructed in Barcelona taking into consideration the role of political, media, and social movements. The chapter compares the response to the refugee population and to the Romani immigrant population. It argues that not all constructions of refugees as crises align with negative stereotypes and r...

This study carries out a review of the existing scientific literature in the field of so-cial mentoring and its effects on youth at risk of social exclusion as well as on other vulnerable groups. We start by presenting the range of programs evaluated and the different ways these evaluations have been approached. An analytical framework is also pres...

This article analyses the case of the Barcelona Anti-Rumour Network, an initiative promoted by the City Council and social organizations, in order to deal with the uncontrolled proliferation of rumours, prejudices and stereotypes about immigration. Rumours convey false information with the aim of exploiting the fears of citizens often disconcerted...

Traditionally, school efficiency has been measured as a function of educational production. In the last two decades, however, studies in the economics of education have indicated that more is required to improve school efficiency: researchers must explore how significant changes in school organization affect the performance of at-risk students. In...

This article explores different ways in which public primary schools sustain democratic governance structures created beyond those mandated by law in Spain. These new institutional designs, while not opposed to policy text requirements of having a governing body with representatives of parents, teachers and public administration, are being carried...

In the last decades, many higher education institutions have developed practices of internationalization of curricula aiming at developing intercultural competences among the non-mobile majority of students. Some of them have developed service-learning activities focusing on working with underserved communities from different cultures. This article...

The expectations held by secondary school teachers play a key role in university access of immigrant and ethnic minority students. Even so, the majority of scientific research conducted in Spain has paid little attention to this, as well as giving little consideration to the exclusive and inclusive dynamics that can occur in secondary schools. When...

Romani women, both immigrant and native, face a greater risk of social exclusion because of the prejudices that mainstream society has about the Roma, and especially because they are women and some of them immigrants as well. This paper analyses how Romani immigrant and native women are building pan-ethnic identities, sharing alliances and developi...

How are different ethnic groups dealing with upward social mobility and assimilation? This is a large question that social research has tried to address in recent decades. In the United States, this issue has been framed by the theory of segmented assimilation. In Europe, regarding the Romà, the assumption still exists that upward mobility paths ar...

This study aims to identify, from an ethnographic perspective, how panethnic boundaries are being created between Gitano people and Roma newcomers who have emigrated from eastern to western Europe. This migration has been driven mainly by discrimination and lack of opportunities in eastern Europe after the transition to a new economy. Although Roma...

This article focuses on the relation between mobility and assimilation among the Roma. Quantitative results from UNDP research in four Central and Eastern Europe countries provide new data and show the need for a new conceptualization of the evidence. These results demonstrate that there are no significant data to confirm the existence of a straigh...