El sinhogarismo femenino representa una problemática dentro del contexto español que requiere ser analizada. En los últimos años, la llamada feminización de la pobreza ha puesto de manifiesto un auge del número de mujeres sin hogar, que hace necesario desarrollar estudios empíricos sobre la cuestión. Por ello, la finalidad de este trabajo basado en una investigación cualitativa ha sido conocer la experiencia femenina del sinhogarismo, tratar de dilucidar el modo en que las violencias sociales y la vulnerabilidad de género se inscriben en las historias de vida de estas mujeres. Del mismo modo, también se ha prestado atención a los efectos del entramado y de la praxis asistencial en la condición del sinhogarismo femenino. Los resultados obtenidos revelan el impacto que tienen las experiencias de victimización en las trayectorias biográficas de las mujeres sin hogar, donde las situaciones de violencia de género y maltrato son recurrentes. Las narrativas de estas mujeres permiten reconocer las carencias del modelo de intervención asistencialista exponiendo los efectos negativos que el entramado asistencial genera.

Aiming to tackle the high levels of youth unemployment and rates of Not Employed, in Education, or Training (NEET), the European Union launched the flagship policy Youth Guarantee in 2013. In this article we evaluate this policy in order to reveal the lessons it can teach us and possible ways for its improvement to achieve a sustainable active labor market policy. We use the data collected through the Indicator Framework for Monitoring the Youth Guarantee to analyze the policy impact, limited to some of the countries with the highest NEET rates: those of the Mediterranean European Economic Area (Cyprus, Greece, Italy, and Spain). We used the data to create regression models for the evaluation of policy measures, spread, and achievements. In our findings we reveal the importance of time in the policy implementation, the differences and commonalities between the countries, and hidden problems in the data collection that lead to biases and misleading results. We conclude that it is too soon to judge the usefulness of the policy and recommend an improvement in the data collection process.

During the last decade, the policy efforts aiming to tackle the NEET situation (young people who neither study nor work) have increased dramatically in the European Union. Meanwhile, many studies challenged those policies, showing how they failed due to lack of understanding the NEETs. Thus, we analyse the factors that influence the appearance, modification and elimination of a NEET identity. The results reveal the presence of a shared NEET identity in the countries with high NEET rates, despite the considerable differences in the countries’ and NEETs’ characteristics. The NEET rate stands out as the key factor influencing the NEET identity, showing that this identity depends more on economic cycles than on the specific country or its culture.

The rates of young people Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) in the Mediterranean European Economic Area (MED EEA) are high. Hence, the European Union and national governments have developed and implemented different policies aimed to tackle the NEET situation. In this article, we try to identify and understand the most relevant barriers that keep vulnerable people as NEETs. We focused on youth as being at the highest risk of becoming NEETs: migrant women aged 25–29. By using semi-structured interviews and focus groups with key stakeholders and NEETs in the Spanish region of Murcia, we collected their views on and experiences with different programs and strategies. We conclude that this group is exposed to additional barriers due to the intersectionality of their characteristics. There are structural and contextual aspects, such as motherhood, a lack of social networks, or not knowing the language, which NEET policies do not address. We highlight the need of (i) improving the adaptiveness of relevant policies by being tailored to specific problems NEETs face, (ii) expanding the focus of NEET policies, and (iii) including the regional perspective in NEET policy design. In our comprehensive approach, we stress that the NEET policy alone cannot solve the NEET problem.

The objective of this study is to measure the relationship between the different dimensions of self-concept - academic, social, family, physical and social - and academic performance. The questionnaire of self-concept form 5 (AF5) was administered to 180 teenagers of both sexes aged between 13 and 18 years (M = 15.25; DT = 1.09. A Pearson correlation and a discriminant analysis are performed to analyze the data. The results indicated that there is a direct relationship between academic self-concept and academic performance and that relations between the social and physical self-concept and academic performance are significant. The data did not show a significant relationship between family self-concept and the academic self-concept. Keywords: Self-concept, adolescence, academic performance, social change Resumen: El objetivo de este estudio es medir la relación existente entre las diferentes dimensiones del autoconcepto –académico, social, familiar, físico y social- y el rendimiento académico. El cuestionario de Autoconcepto forma 5 (AF5) se administró a 180 adolescentes de ambos sexos con edades comprendidas entre los 13 y 18 años (M = 15.25; DT = 1.09. Para analizar los datos se realiza una correlación de Pearson y un análisis discriminante. Los resultados obtenidos indicaron que hay una relación directa entre el autoconcepto académico y el rendimiento académico y que son significativas las relaciones entre el autoconcepto físico y social y el rendimiento académico. Los datos no mostraron una relación significativa entre el autoconcepto familiar y el autoconcepto académico. Palabras clave: Autoconcepto, adolescencia, rendimiento académico, cambio social.

La feminización de la pobreza ha dado lugar a un aumento del número de mujeres sin hogar. El objetivo de este trabajo, basado en una investigación cualitativa, es conocer la presencia de experiencias de victimización en población sin hogar femenino tanto de manera previa a la situación de calle como durante la misma. Los resultados han puesto de manifiesto el impacto que tiene la vulnerabilidad y violencia de género en sus trayectorias biográficas. Asimismo, muestran cómo la vulnerabilidad sexual está muy presente en la experiencia de sinhogarismo femenino entendida como una particularidad de género de esta población. The feminisation of poverty has give rise to the number of homeless women. The aim of this work, based on a qualitative research methodology, is to know about the existence of victimisation experiences among the women homeless population both before and during the homeless situation. The results have shown vulnerability and gender´s violence impact on biographical trajectories of the interviewed women. As well, it showed how the sexual vulnerability has a significant presence in the women homelessness experience, being possible understanding that as a real gender particularity.