Vocational Education and Training for Migrant Young People in Spain

This contribution intends to discuss the profile of young people of migrant origin attending vocational training in second chance schools. Data have been taken from a larger study on the population attending second chance schools and the services they provide; and the data portrayed here come mainly from a questionnaire applied in Autumn 2020 to young people enrolled in accredited second chance schools in Spain. Our findings indicate some features which these youngsters share while also showing differences among those whose native language is Spanish and those with a different one. Data also show the particularly hard living conditions many of them have and hence the harder obstacles they have to overcome in order to accredit their training and entering the labour market. These data will be discussed in relation to those obtained with migrant and refugee youngsters attending training programs in other European countries.