Migration and Youth Empowerment

Abstract

an Undiscovered RealityDespite their importance in quantitative and qualitative terms, our knowledge regarding young Latin American immigrants living in Spain remains far from exhaustive. There is much evidence of the need to continue investigating this group's situation and update those methodologies and analytical perspectives used to date (Cachón, 2003(Cachón, , 2011. The present work aims to highlight new dimensions of the youth migration phenomenon by approaching it from the novel perspective of youth migrant empowerment. Specifically, our starting hypothesis is that, during the period of youth, migration can also be thought of as an empowerment process in itself: it is an opportunity for individuals to increase their capacities and self-confidence and develop a wide range of sociocultural skills and learning (Úcar-Martínez et al., 2016;. These ideas are supported within the transitions perspective, which