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‘If we want, they help us in any way’: How ‘unaccompanied refugee minors’ experience mentoring relationships

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Raithelhuber, Eberhard·2021·European Journal of Social Work
DOI 10.1080/13691457.2019.1606787
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Little is known about the growing phenomenon of ‘mentorship for “unaccompanied refugee minors”’. This article looks into one serious gap, based on a case study in Austria, asking: How do these young people, most of them seeking asylum, represent relationships in a mentorship programme? Here, youth mentoring is understood as a community-based form of social intervention carried out by an organisation that connects trained adult volunteers with young people. The findings from two multilingual group interviews focus on various dimensions of social support and social capital, e.g. with regard to settling in and life course transitions. Reacting to calls for methodological reflection in studies on the refugee experience, the article presents in detail the setting and approach, which partly built on the concept of the ‘tripled Otherness of “unaccompanied minors”’. An analysis of their narrations is discussed against the wider context, particularly that of systematic discrimination by welfare agencies and efforts by various actors to rearrange URMs’ differential inclusion. The conclusion proposes that research should better reflect the political dimension in mentoring for marginalised populations. It argues that the potential of such programmes should be tapped to develop progressive protection arrangements extending beyond the limits of the welfarist nation state.

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  • Qualitative studies on asylum seekers in Sweden and Australia have underscored the culturally specific needs of mentees to feel safe and protected, the need for social support and social capital, and their strong desire to fit in and move forward with their lives.

    “Several qualitative studies on asylum seekers in Sweden and Australia have underscored the culturally specific needs of mentees to feel safe and protected, the need for social support and social capital, and their strong desire to fit in and move forward with their lives [167].”

    From Unpacking Community-Based Youth Mentoring Relationships: An Integrative Review (2021) · cites this paper as [167]

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Authors
Raithelhuber, E.
Affiliations
University of Salzburg (AT)
Corresponding author
Raithelhuber, Eberhard
ORCID
Raithelhuber, Eberhard
Venue
European Journal of Social Work
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2019-04-22
Volume
24
Issue
2
Pages
251-266
ISSN
  • 1369-1457 (ISSN-L)
  • 1468-2664
DOI
10.1080/13691457.2019.1606787
OpenAlex
W2941367403
Cited by
32
References
54
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1
FWCI
10.79
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
European Journal of Social Work (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Exile Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Keywords
unaccompanied refugee children, youth mentoring, mentoring programs, social support, social capital, asylum seekers, life course transitions, otherness, differential inclusions, marginalised populations

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