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Towards effective social mentoring practices for migrant newcomers. A research-informed and practitioner-approved good practice guide. KU Leuven
Social mentoring for adult migrant newcomers is a new and emerging type of mentoring that has particularly gained in popularity in the wake of the European ‘refugee crisis.’ It is known by a multitude of names including ‘buddy programs’, ‘parrainage’, ‘mentoring’, ‘patenschaften’… As a new and barely studied field, good practices of social mentoring for newcomers are largely unknown or anecdotal. Yet, the design of a mentoring program will, to a ...
Matching mentors and recent immigrants: matching criteria in social mentoring programmes for newcomers KU Leuven
To improve the social participation of newcomer immigrants, social mentoring programs for newcomers have gained in popularity. This paper attempts to bring some clarity to the practice of social mentoring for newcomers by focusing on an important step in the mentoring process: matching. Through insights from practice, this research provides an overview of the most common matching criteria in social mentoring programs for newcomers. Criteria ...
Towards effective mentoring practices for migrant newcomers. Guidelines for social mentoring programs for newcomers. KU Leuven
Social mentoring for adult newcomers is a new and emerging type of mentoring that has particularly gained in popularity in the wake of the European ‘refugee crisis.’ They are known by a multitude of names including ‘buddy programs’, ‘parrainage’, ‘mentoring’, ‘patenschaften.’… A meta-analysis of mentoring programs showed that mentoring programs are generally effective but the effects are limited in size (Eby et al., 2007; Dekker et al., 2013). ...
Towards minimum quality criteria for mentoring-to-work programmes KU Leuven
An instrument that is increasingly being used to integrate people of foreign origin into the labor market is "mentoring-to-work" in which a newcomer (mentee) and a volunteer with knowledge of the local labor market (mentor) are paired ("matched") so that the latter can help the mentee on the road to employment. It is a relatively new concept that is gaining popularity in Europe and Canada. An evaluation of start-up projects showed that mentoring ...