Department of Social Psychology, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.
International Protection Area, Federación Andalucía Acoge, Sevilla, Spain.
J Community Psychol. 2020 Jul;48(5):1438-1451. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22338. Epub 2020 Mar 5.
This study aims to analyze the processes of resilience and empowerment experienced by refugees in southern Spain during their participation in a community-based intervention. Intervention design covered two phases over 15 weeks: (a) accompanying a group of 10 settled refugees to become mentors, making use of a peer-support-group format; and (b) holding four cultural peer-support groups made up of newly arrived refugees led by the previously trained settled refugees, following a peer-mentoring format. We analyzed the mentors' narratives and written evaluations produced over the course of the intervention program. Mentor resilience increased during the first program phase and remained high and stable during the second phase. Mentor empowerment steadily increased throughout the duration of the program, and was fueled when participants became mentors to newly arrived refugees during the second phase. This study highlights how a peer-support and peer-mentoring approach is useful for enhancing the resilience and empowerment of refugees in receiving societies.
本研究旨在分析西班牙南部难民在参与基于社区的干预措施期间所经历的适应力和赋权过程。干预设计涵盖了 15 周的两个阶段：(a) 陪伴一组 10 名定居难民成为导师，利用同伴支持小组的形式；(b) 按照同伴指导的形式，由之前接受过培训的定居难民领导，成立四个由新抵达难民组成的文化同伴支持小组。我们分析了导师在干预计划过程中产生的叙述和书面评估。导师的适应力在第一阶段的项目中有所增加，并在第二阶段保持较高且稳定。导师的赋权在整个项目期间稳步增加，当参与者在第二阶段成为新抵达难民的导师时，这种赋权得到了加强。本研究强调了同伴支持和同伴指导方法如何有助于增强接收社会中难民的适应力和赋权。
