Exploring socio-ecological factors that support the navigation and negotiation of education by unaccompanied and separated children in Greece

Journal article

Abstract:: Greece is home to thousands of unaccompanied and separated children who continue to face education disruptions. Despite past adversities, recent research suggests that some children display educational resilience–conceptualised as a socio-ecological and socio-interactional dynamic between the child and their immediate environments leading to positive educational trajectories. This study explores the question further using a qualitatively driven mixed-methods approach. The study examined responses to a measure of socio-ecological resilience alongside in-depth interviews collected from a refugee youth sample (n = 25). Quantitative results revealed a possible connection between unaccompanied and separated children’s personal sense of resilience and their personal sense of being looked after, being known, feeling safe, and feeling celebrated. Qualitative results identified socio-ecological factors that supported these children in navigating and negotiating education in Greece. The study sheds light on factors that enable (resilience factors) or hinder (risk factors) the educational trajectories of unaccompanied and separated children in Greece.

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Language:: English
Keywords:: unaccompanied and separated children

educational resilience

refugee education

socio-ecological factors

navigation and negotiation

qualitatively driven mixed-methods
Pubs id:: 2025692
Local pid:: pubs:2025692
Deposit date:: 2024-10-25

Copyright holder:: Aleghfeli and Nag
Rights statement:: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any med ium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Notes:: Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2024.2393112.

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