How do vulnerable youth complete secondary education? The key role of families and the community This article demonstrates how the engagement of families and other community members in decision-making processes in a school may prevent early school leaving among vulnerable youth and simultaneously increase their enrolment in secondary education. Based on a large-scale, EU-funded study, this article focuses on the case of one school located in a deprived area inhabited mainly by Roma people-one of the vulnerable populations most affected by early school leavingwhere a specific egalitarian participatory process of Roma families was implemented. According to the analysis of the collected data, this participation contributed to a reduction in student dropout rates during primary education, led to the implementation of compulsory secondary education in the same school, and increased the numbers of students who graduated from secondary school. These achievements transformed the educational and social prospects of vulnerable youth who were following the path to failure and who now dream of continuing their studies. Furthermore, these youth are acting as role models for younger children in primary education, helping to prevent school dropout and early school leaving from early ages. The case shows how the community participation in decision-making processes transformed the climate and expectations regarding education in the neighbourhood.

This article is based on qualitative analysis of interviews and focus groups conducted with participants enrolled in the Senior Programme of the University of Lleida, the City Council of Lleida, and care homes, as well as professional workers in the field of gerontology and related areas. It presents the analysis of interviews focused on the participants’ life trajectories, ageing, creativity, self-perception, and quality of life. The study aimed to examine how creativity influences the maintenance and improvement of a sense of wellbeing in older adults, and to reflect on how the perception of old age and of oneself changes through creative activity and active engagement across the life span. The article is framed within a new concept in sociology and the social sciences—‘profiguration’, which is the key element in the promotion and strengthening of intergenerational interdependence, education, wellbeing, social participation, and active ageing.

Although Spain has social and healthcare systems based on universal coverage, little is known about how undocumented immigrant women access and utilise them. This is particularly true in the case of Latin Americans who are overrepresented in the informal labour market, taking on traditionally female roles of caregivers and cleaners in private homes. This study describes access and utilisation of social and healthcare services by undocumented Latin American women working and living in rural and urban areas, and the barriers these women may face. An exploratory qualitative study was designed with 12 in-depth interviews with Latin American women living and working in three different settings: an urban city, a rural city and rural villages in the Pyrenees. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and analysed, yielding four key themes: health is a tool for work which worsens due to precarious working conditions; lack of legal status traps Latin American women in precarious jobs; lack of access to and use of social services; and limited access to and use of healthcare services. While residing and working in different areas of the province impacted the utilisation of services, working conditions was the main barrier experienced by the participants. In conclusion, decent working conditions are the key to ensuring undocumented immigrant women's right to social and healthcare. To create a pathway to immigrant women's health promotion, the 'trap of illegality' should be challenged and the impact of being considered 'illegal' should be considered as a social determinant of health, even where the right to access services is legal.

This study describes and analyses the role of a Senior Programme of the University of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain) aimed at fostering older people's lifelong learning, active ageing, social participation and intergenerational relationships. Based on qualitative Action Research and Participant Observation, this article examines the participation of senior students as stakeholders in this Programme and in two European projects, SIforAGE and TOY, developed between 2012 and 2017. The findings reveal the importance of these learning and research activities to promote intergenerational solidarity, the quality of life of older people, and the development and improvement of the Senior Programme itself.

Diversity is a structural part of all societies. Nor are those that are perceived as homogeneous. Even so, the debate on intercultural education, coexistence between groups of origins, ideologies and different thoughts has gained scientific interest from the social changes that have occurred in the population displacements of this century. Gender education has reappeared imbricated in all of this (as an urgent need). This article shows the positioning and the assessments that, based on the results of a quantitative research on a large sample of adolescents of Catalonia, say they have about alterity and differences. The variables place of birth, gender, frequency of relationships and environment have been studied. The results are statistically significant. Differences are observed in the opinions expressed according to these variables, especially between girls and boys. Although they generally express a favorable attitude to contact with the different, more of them show thoughts that reproduce traditional cultural stereotypes. Quantitative data reveal influences of educational socialization both in the classroom and in its environment. The adolescents identify the school and the neighborhood as the main spaces of social relation and place the network in third place. Keywords ResumenLa diversidad forma parte estructural de todas las sociedades. Ni las que se perciben como homogéneas lo son. Aun así, el debate sobre la educación intercultural, la convivencia entre grupos de orígenes, ideologías y pensamientos distintos ha cobrado interés científico a partir de los cambios sociales acaecidos por los desplazamientos poblacionales de este siglo. Imbricado en él ha reaparecido, como urgente necesidad, la educación de género. Este artículo muestra el posicionamiento y las valoraciones que, a partir de los resultados de una investigación cuantitativa sobre una amplia muestra de adolescentes de Cataluña, dicen tener sobre la alteridad y las diferencias. Se han estudiado las variables sexo, lugar de nacimiento, frecuencia de relaciones y entorno. Los resultados son estadísticamente significativos. Se advierten diferencias en las opiniones expresadas según estas variables, especialmente entre chicas y chicos. Aunque en general manifiestan una actitud favorable al contacto con el diferente, un mayor número de ellos que ellas muestran pensamientos que reproducen los estereotipos culturales tradicionales. Los datos cuantitativos revelan influencias de la socialización educativa tanto en el aula como en su entorno. Los adolescentes identifican la escuela y el barrio como los espacios principales de relación social y sitúan la red en tercer lugar.Palabras clave: diversidad cultural, adolescencia, alteridad, interculturalidad, sociología de la educación intercultural, identidad, género 28 Sanvicén, Fuentes & Molina -Alteridad e Interculturalidad l artículo que se presenta tiene como objeto describir los resultados del proyecto de investigación titulado "Educación cívica en las aulas interculturales: análisis de las repre...