“…Specific intervention strategies are needed to both, support the integration of refugees and asylum seekers as well as to promote the education and information about the country's inhabitants towards the demystification of certain recurrent preconceptions of embodied danger, violence, and trauma (Varvin, 2017, Eide et al, 2018, Vervliet et al, 2014 towards the acknowledgment of the importance of including this migrant population for a peaceful and sustainable future of the society in which are being integrated. Peer mentoring has been a strategy implemented in a few EU countries for the integration of refugees and asylum seekers (Thommessen et al, 2015, Atkinson, 2018, Rodriguez and Dobler, 2021, Jaschke et al, 2022. Youth mentoring programs in particular have been identified as a low-cost strategy for youth at risk of developing a range of psychological, social, and behavioural problems (Raposa et al, 2019, Burton et al, 2021.…”