Òscar Prieto-Flores's research while affiliated with Universitat de Girona and other places

... Mobility is a fundamental and important feature of human activity as it fulfils the basic need to get from one place to another in order to participate in employment, kinship and education. Thus, mobility enables social, cultural, political, and economic activities to take place with relative ease (Gasparovic & Prieto Flores, 2021). Accessibility is parameter which is crucial part of the function of determining transport disadvantaged space. ...

... Realizing this vision requires boosting young people's access to green jobs, land, youth-sensitive credit and financial services, productive resources and equipment, and markets.Aspirational career paths should provide opportunities and remove barriers for youth seeking to work in agricultural value chains. For young people not inclined to work on farms, including those without access to land or productive resources, governments and the private sector could help position them in nonfarm activities that drive agricultural transformation, such as improving rural markets and promoting environmental sustainability(Geza et al. 2021). Improving rural markets would entail investing in infrastructure for transportation, water, electricity, and postharvest handling and storage, as well as ...

... Cuando la mentoría termina prematuramente, ésta es menos efectiva y puede acarrear consecuencias perjudiciales para el menor como, por ejemplo, una disminución de la autoestima y peores resultados académicos (Spencer et al., 2017;Kupersmidt et al., 2017;Grossman y Rhodes, 2002). Ante este panorama, han aparecido numerosas voces apuntando a la necesidad de ampliar la investigación sobre este tipo de intervenciones (Pryce et al., 2021;Sánchez-Aragón et al., 2021;Brumovská y Seidlová, 2020;Rhodes et al., 2017), así como a la conveniencia de diseñar nuevas herramientas que ayuden a comprender mejor cómo se desarrollan en la práctica las relaciones entre adultos y menores en la comunidad (Deutsch y Spencer, 2009), cuyos encuentros tienen lugar fuera del horario escolar, alejados de la observación directa del personal del programa. ...

... Furthermore, the tendency to rely on educators is even more pronounced for them, which further demonstrates the need to expand the informal support networks of these young people to avoid becoming dependent on services and enhance their options for integration, since the help from professionals constitutes an essential source of both emotional and practical support (Sulimani-Aidan, 2016). In this sense, previous studies have highlighted that the combination of maintaining the transnational family and supporting the development of new support networks is especially beneficial for UMYP leaving care (Alarcón and Prieto-Flores, 2021). ...

... Research shows that relationships of this kind can be one of the central mechanisms driving the development of social capital (Raithelhuber, 2019). They can help provide various kinds of social support that service users do not get from professional social workers (or not in sufficient quantity), if they even turn to them for such support at all (Alarcón, Bobowik, & Prieto Flores, 2021;. The establishment and negotiation of personal relationships often proves to be one of the main ways to help people in precarious life circumstances gain access to social rights. ...

... For example, mentoring programs can foster such supportive social relationships. In that regard, Sánchez-Aragón et al. (2021) found positive effects of mentoring on young immigrants' psychosocial well-being and adaptability to stressful events resulting from migration. ...

... The present study evaluates the effectiveness of the Nightingale mentoring programme in Spain, whose main objective is to promote the social, cultural and linguistic inclusion of students of immigrant origin. The project, which is part of the European-wide Nightingale Mentoring Network, was first carried out in 1997 at the University of Malmö, Sweden; since its success, it has been implemented by twenty-seven other universities in six European countries and one in Africa [1]. The programme is based on the voluntary action of university students who, during the school year, act as mentors of immigrant, refugee or irregular status children and adolescents with the aim of helping them navigate the new educational context and develop a sense of belonging that enables them to find their place within the new country. ...

... En los últimos años, se ha reflejado el crecimiento de las consultas ciudadanas a nivel nacional, regional y local. Bajo este epígrafe, es la iniciativa en que los gobiernos desarrollen una política de transparencia que incluya la información activa y acceso sin restricciones (Brugué et al., 2019;Briceño 2019;Villoria, 2015). ...

... -Consultes. En el marc de l'aprofundiment dels processos democràtics i amb la voluntat d'anar més enllà de la democràcia representativa, han aparegut amb força aquesta forma de democràcia directa (Brugué et al., 2018), moltes vegades emparada en la Llei de consultes populars i no refrendàries (Llei 10/2014). De fet, 3 dels 8 municipis han realitzat consultes recentment: sobre la creació d'una nova comarca, la data de la festa major o intervencions en espais públics. ...

... In the United States, more than 2.5 million children and adolescents receive mentoring every year (Raposa et al., 2017). Mentoring programs are also growing rapidly in many countries such as Israel, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and continental Europe (Preston et al., 2019). ...