Socio-Labor Insertion: The Role of Families from the Socio-Educational Agents' Perception. A Qualitative Study

Abstract

The family environment is the place where vital projects begin, accompanying people in the transit that life itself entails. One of these transitions is labor insertion, and families play a key role in this process. This study is part of a broader research developed around Social Education and COVID-19 in Ibero-America: social and labor exclusion after the pandemic and good practices for inclusion. This is an exploratory study, with a qualitative methodology, with data collected through group interviews (focus groups), with semi-structured questions. The data analysis has been carried out through the qualitative software ATLAS.ti (v.22). The focus groups consist of professionals implied in socio-educational intervention with families, who participate in services and programs aimed at socio-labor insertion after the pandemic. These key informants come from four countries of the Ibero-American context: Brazil, Colombia, Spain and Mexico, and through the data they have provided, it is intended to know the situations of social exclusion, the populations that are most affected, as well as the proposals for intervention and insertion indicators on which they are based. Results of this research are interpreted within the framework of the two main categories that have guided the study. These categories derived from the focus groups information: a) Young people and family support during and after the pandemic; b) Gender and care (support linked to gender roles); The professionals participating in this study show agreement regarding the assessment of the proactive role of fathers, mothers and caregivers in promoting the personal and family autonomy of the members. Likewise, the intervention of socio-educational agents (entities of the 3rd sector) it is considered pertinent to guide, accompany and identify the main social and labor skills, and consequently, facilitators of social and labor insertion.