Berta Palou Julián

Convivencia y participación de jóvenes en Sant Boi de Llobregat (Barcelona)

This paper presents the design, implementation and analysis of the results of a survey carried out amongst young people from Sant Boi de Llobregat. The main aim of this study was to diagnose the degree of coexistence and participation of young people aged 14 to16, so as to offer educational proposals for improvement in this area for the development of a more active and engaged citizenship with reality. The data collection tool is a Questionnaire for Coexistence and Participation. The original theoretical framework is based on the idea that in order to develop an active and committed citizenship, coexistence and participation of young people is necessary. The current social and cultural changes give us the opportunity to create new challenges for dialogue between people, but it is also true that diversity makes social relations systems more complex. The results highlight friendship between young people is influenced by their origins, prevailing a climate of coexistence rather than a truly intercultural coexistence. Finally, we see that for youth participation to develop both in the district and at school, prior experience of youth participation is particularly important, the lack of it limiting well-needed community opening at school.

Reflexiones sobre el proceso de integración de la juventud extranjera en Cataluña: un enfoque socioeducativo

This paper presents an analysis of the process of integration among migrant young people in Catalonia aged from 14 to 18. For this purpose, a study was made, using a survey and four discussion groups probing the points of view of both the migrant and native youth. Results are organised around a model of integration based on four core dimensions: structural, cognitive-cultural, social and of identity; and confirm that a society which is plural in its beliefs, convictions and forms should be reflected in democratic systems and social and educational policies based on a concept of integration as reciprocity and understood as a fundamental principle in the management of diversity.