This article examines the role of natural mentors in facilitating the transition of unaccompanied immigrant minors from state care to independent living. The authors explore how natural mentors—adults who spontaneously develop supportive relationships with youth—provide emotional support, guidance, and access to social networks, thereby strengthening the social support and social capital available to these young […]
Tag: adolescents
‘If we want, they help us in any way’: how ‘unaccompanied refugee minors’ experience mentoring relationships
This article explores the experiences of unaccompanied refugee minors participating in mentoring programs in Austria. Based on two multilingual focus group interviews with young people involved in a pilot “godparenthood” project for unaccompanied minors, the author examines how these youths perceive their relationships with mentors and how these relationships affect their social support and social […]
“I am a lot of colours, because I have a lot of lives, a lot of me, a lot of myself”. Identities of adolescent refugee students in Greece.
The study attempts to bring to light the voice of Afghani refugees, girls and boys aged between 14 and 17. The adolescents, having been forced to cross many geographical borders, but also to suddenly ‘grow up’, got trapped in Greece, are being ‘hosted’ in a container within a refugee camp and are attending a state […]