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- Welcoming refugees in Portugal: preliminary assessment through the voices of refugee familiesPublication . Barbosa, Mariana; Santos, Mafalda; Veiga, Elisa; Martins, Filipe; Ribeiro, Maria Teresa; Faria, JoanaThe Refugee Support Platform (PAR – Plataforma de Apoio a Refugiados) was created in September 2015 through the establishment of a network of organisations and volunteers from the Portuguese civil society. PAR Families is a program that aims to provide support to refugee families in Portugal. PAR Families model implies that for each family of refugees arriving in the country there will be an institution directly responsible for the following dimensions: independent accommodation, food and clothing; support regarding access to healthcare services, education, labour market, Portuguese language classes and social and cultural integration. From the total of families (n = 73) hosted by PAR at the time data collection began (March 2018), members of 40 families were interviewed (35 women and 26 men). Through in-depth qualitative interviews the study gave voice to their perspectives as experiential experts of the PAR Families program, and with this gathering important feedback and recommendations our research aims to: (1) identify the good practices that should be maintained and reproduced with new refugee families that may be hosted by PAR; (2) recognise the aspects that appear as counter-productive to a successful integration and autonomisation of the refugee families in the six dimensions targeted by the PAR Program.
- Promover e avaliar competências em cidadania nas escolas portuguesas: a experiência do projetopiloto “Educação para a Cidadania”Publication . Martins, Filipe; Ribeiro, Luı́sa Mota; Barbosa, Mariana; Cardoso, Jorge
- Entre a maioridade penal e a menoridade civil: perspetivas de profissionais da área da JustiçaPublication . Silva, Tiago; Barbosa, Mariana Reis; Matos, Raquel; Fernandes, Raquel VeludoO presente estudo tem por objetivo examinar as perceções de profissionais que traba-lham na área da justiça, relativamente à aplicação da medida de prisão preventiva a jovens com idade inferior a 18 anos. Para esse efeito, 17 profissionais foram entrevistados. A análise dos dados revelou que a medida de prisão preventiva pode, na perspetiva dos profissionais, constituir-se como um fator positivo quando é considerada a segurança da sociedade; porém, pode constituir-se como um fator negativo quando somente o jovem ofensor é considerado. lém do mais, a medida de prisão preventiva parece carretar consequências negativas a longo prazo, quer para o jovem quer para a sociedade
- Lives on hold: the experiences of asylum seekers in Moria refugee campPublication . Moreira, Ana Luísa; Barbosa, Mariana; Maia, Margarida; Veiga, Elisa; Martins, Filipe; Santos, MafaldaOf the hundreds of thousands of people that formed the huge migratory flow of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, many are currently living in refugee camps, at times without basic conditions. This research aims to describe the lived experience of these people and amplify their voices. In order to pursue this goal, we conducted 15 semi-structured interviews with asylum seekers accomodated in the Kara Tepe refugee camp but who had also had experience of life in Moria refugee camp (both camps are in Greece). We complemented these data with participant observations carried out in the Kara Tepe refugee camp and some visits at the surroundings of Moria camp. Our results highlight a much worse experience of asylum seekers in Moria refugee camp if compared to asylum seekers’ experience in Kara Tepe, with reports of overcrowding, hunger, lack of hygiene, poor healthcare, insecurity and violence. The psychological impact of the high number of adversities affecting people living under these circunstances also stood out, with evidence of distress experienced. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings in terms of policy change.