The aim of this study was to design, develop, and validate a questionnaire evaluating attitudes toward refugee children. Method: The questionnaire was analyzed using SPSS Software version 21.0 (IBM Corp., 2012, Armonk, NY, USA). Results: Cronbach’s α was greater than 0.9. According to an expert’s review, the instrument provided arithmetic means higher than 2.5, the dimensions evaluated had interclass correlation coefficients greater than 55, and the corrected correlation values of the item-total were greater than 0.35. Conclusions: The Attitude Questionnaire toward Refugee Children was found to be an adequate instrument for better understanding and measuring the attitudes of host countries’ citizens toward refugee children.
Refugee women are a vulnerable group, due to their life stories, which leads to these aspects being the first to be intervened by the different institutions and NGOs that work with these women. The objective of this paper is to analyze the interventions made, from the perspective of maintaining the culture and language of origin. For this, the M-IBQ Scale was used in a sample of 264 women, of a total of 1910 people relocated and resettled in Spain, out of which 650 are women. This scale analyses socio-demographic variables of ethnicity, geographic residence, age, and length of time in Spain, and contains five subscales: "Speak Native Language", "Speak English Language", "Enjoy Native Activities", "Enjoy American Activities", and "Desired Ideal Culture". The scale was sent to the NGOs, in which the women are attended and it was passed by the professionals and volunteers of the same, needing, for this, a period of 9 months. The results of the analysis of the data show that, although refugee women are adequately cared for, in none of the cases has intervention in the maintenance of the language and culture of origin, producing a process of acculturation.
“An Unaccompanied Refugee children is a person under the age of 18, who is afraid of being persecuted, whose rights are threatened and is forced to leave his / her habitual residence and / or country of origin and is outside it, without the accompaniment of parents, relatives or other adult person, who, by law or custom, is responsible. “ (Angelidou & Aguaded, 2016). According to the Human Rights Watch researches (2016), serious crimes against refugees and immigrants children are being committed. The Government of Spain announced that they expect to relocate a total of 586 people before the end of 2017. At present, the number of refugees in Spain is more than 470. Specifically, Andalusia became, in September 2016, the first Spanish community that manages to relocate unaccompanied refugees children. The objective of this research is to analyze the socio-educational intervention, which is being carried out with these children. For this, the method used was in-depth interviews, y cuestionarios, which results offer very diverse information, from which we can conclude that there is a way forward, which is leading to improvements for children.
Los conflictos armados y la persecución, que llegaron a su apogeo en 2015, han causado un nuevo recórd en el número de personas forzadas a abandonar sus hogares. En Grecia se registraron 66.966 solicitantes de asilo durante el año fiscal 2018, mientras en España durante los cinco primeros meses de 2019, más de 45.000 personas han solicitado protección internacional. En el caso de los Estados Unidos, durante el año 2017, unas 53,691 personas han sido reconocidas como refugiados. Se considera que, mundialmente, más del 50% de las personas refugiadas corresponde a menores de edad, los que tienen una serie de derechos establecidos por las normas internacionales, como por ejemplo el derecho a la educación. Esta investigación mide las actitudes de los adultos griegos, españoles y puertorriqueños hacia los menores refugiados utilizando una encuesta cuantitativa. En total participaron 215 griegos, 180 españoles y 140 puertorriqueños. Resultados: la mayor parte de los encuestados respetan los derechos de los menores refugiados. De la misma manera, los datos revelaron que los encuestados tienen una actitud positiva en cuanto a la recepción de los menores refugiados.
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