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Autor/in | Raithelhuber, Eberhard |
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Titel | Turning into a "Godparent". How adult volunteers negotiate their personal life to become a mentor for "Unaccompanied Refugee Minors". |
Quelle | In: Social work and social welfare, 1 (2019) 1, S. 23-36
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Beigaben | Literaturangaben |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 2591-782X |
DOI | 10.25082/SWSW.2019.01.003 |
Schlagwörter | Mentoring; Migration; Soziales Netzwerk; Zivilgesellschaft; Sozialpädagogik; Kinder- und Jugendhilfe; Flüchtlingshilfe; Patenschaft; Ehrenamtlicher Helfer; Österreich |
Abstract | This article looks into how mentors deal with their biographies and social embeddedness to make sense of their engagement in mentoring before they are matched. It draws on a qualitative investigation carried out during a pilot youth mentoring program for "unaccompanied refugee minors" in Austria. This article reveals how already trained, local adult volunteers actively relate to "family," "migration" and "previous activities" in their meaning-making. It shows how they negotiate their personal life and existing relationships in the process of turning into a future "godparent." The discussion of findings against the state of the art leads the way to two heuristic claims: firstly, the study provides grounded arguments for an extension of the conventional mentoring concept on the side of the mentor. Secondly, for a more relational and processual approach towards the mentors' side, both biographical and social network dimensions need to be integrated in methods and designs of youth mentoring research. (Orig.). |
Erfasst von | Externer Selbsteintrag |
Update | 2024/1 |