GUEVARA PEREA, M. y CANDÓN-MENA, J., 2024. El papel de las redes sociales digitales en la integración de los jóvenes migrantes marroquíes en España. Encrucijadas: Revista Crítica de Ciencias Sociales, vol. 24, no. 3, ISSN 2174-6753.
This study analyzes the use of digital social networks among migrant youth of Moroccan origin currently residing in Spain. A qualitative methodology has been applied that combines non-systematized participant observation and fourteen in-depth interviews with young people who migrated to Spain from Morocco as minors. We try to analyze two questions. The first, discover the influence that digital platforms have had in the integration process of this migrant youth in the host society. The literature on this matter is totally divided between those who think that new technologies favor the integration of the migrant population, and, on the other hand, those who believe that it is harmful to them. The second issue lies in analyzing how digital social networks have affected the communication that migrant youth have with their loved ones who remain at their origin. In this case, there is a greater consensus in the literature that advocates an enormous facilitation of transnational communications. We found as a result that migrant youth have appropriated digital platforms and have learned to use them in their integration processes, as well as in their daily communications. Digital social networks have not only improved transnational family relationships, generating well-being in both migrants and their families, but they have also facilitated the communication of migrant youth with the new actors that are appearing in their contexts in the host society.
RECALDE ESNOZ, I., 2024. Del flirteo a la agresión: análisis sociológico de la violencia sexual en el ocio nocturno universitario español. Universidad de Alcalá.
Nightlife emerges as one of the most common settings for incidents of alcohol and drug-mediated sexual violence. In response to this situation, a research was proposed to delve deeper into this phenomenon, with the main objectives being to understand the characteristics of sexual violence in nightlife, analyze the attitudes of young people towards drug-facilitated sexual violence, and comprehend the social dynamics around the issue of sexual violence from the perspective of the people who use this environment. Firstly, a scientific literature review was conducted, leading to a systematic review of the term Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault (DFSA). Secondly, a quantitative methodological block of work was developed, in which two scales were constructed and validated to measure the attitudes of young people towards DFSA. Finally, a qualitative research design was implemented – through individual and group interviews with university students – to analyze the social dynamics and interactions experienced in nightlife by the youth. The findings of this Doctoral Thesis lead to the affirmation that in alcohol and/or drug-facilitated sexual violence, the most frequent victims are young women, with the perpetrators being men, most often known to the victims. Likewise, the exploration of youth discourse has allowed glimpses into the challenges presented by alcohol-mediated consent, the strategies for rejecting unwanted sexual attention implemented by youth in nightlife, and the multiple motivations for engaging in sexual relationships in this same space. These findings converge on the conclusion of the necessity to implement a holistic sexual education, a psycho-sociosexual education, that enhances and promotes fair and egalitarian sexuality.
SARASA CAMACHO, H., 2025. ¿Por qué no estoy en mi barrio? La sostenibilidad social como reto del sistema de acogimiento residencial de menores. Cuadernos de trabajo social, vol. 38, no. 1, ISSN 1988-8295, 0214-0314.
Reducing the current high number of minors in residential care is one of the current challenges facing the child and adolescent protection system in Spain. However, the current reality shows that this dein-stitutionalization is not taking place to the extent intended; in many cases, residential foster care resources are “overflowing”, mainly with adolescent minors.In parallel to these efforts to reduce the number of institutionalized adolescents, it would seem to be a public responsibility to safeguard the best psychosocial development during, at least, the time they remain under the care of the public administration.To this end, during this institutionalization process, the entities responsible for the protection of these adolescents make a strong effort to improve the relationship between them and their families of origin. But what happens with the relationship and protective potential of other agents during the residential foster care process? This article focuses on two protective agents that have been little mentioned so far and that could be key to this better development: the territorial communities of origin and the original peer groups that interact in these communities. Thus, the paper presents a series of interesting conclusions, which have to do both with the return of adolescents and young people to their community of origin after passing through residential foster care re-sources (and after the chronic territorial distancing caused by the protection system), and with the involution of relationships with these protective agents mentioned. Finally, the article presents a series of recommen-dations, in the form of effective strategies and applicable tools for practice, to reverse this situation, betting on socially sustainable protection resources.
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