Individual and Family
• 1. How old are you?
• 2. What is your birth date?
• 3. Where were you born?
• 4. Where does your family live? Which camp?
• 5. What languages do you speak?
• 6. What languages do you speak at home?
• 7. What languages do you study at school?
• 8. How much have you studied? (Or, what grade/year are you in?)
• 9. Who do you live with?
• 10. How old is your father? Did he study? To which level? What did he study? Does he work? In what?
• 11. How old is your mother? Did she study? To which level? What did she study? Does she work? In what?
• 12. How many brothers and sisters do you have?
• 13. What are their ages, education, and jobs?
• 14. When were you born in relation to your other brothers and sisters?
• 15. What do you do in the house – what are your responsibilities?
• 16. What money-making activities have you been involved in so far? Were these activities done for yourself or for your family? (Or, why did you work?)

Gender
• 17. Are boys and girls treated the same in your household? What differences do you see?
• 18. Do you think in Sahrawi society girls and boys are treated the same or differently?
• 19. In your opinion, what are the differences between the abilities of men and women?

Spain
• 20. Is this your first time in Spain or have you participated in Vacaciones en Paz before?
• 21. How many times?
• 22. How old were you when you first came? Do you remember what years you came or how old you were? Did you stay with the same family? If not, where did you stay? And the second time?
• 23. How is Spain different from the camps?
• 24. Are boys and girls treated the same in Spain?
• 25. What is it like to live with a Spanish family?
• 26. What kinds of things do you do while you are here in Spain?
• 27. When you are in Spain, what is it that you most miss about home (the camps)?
• 28. What do you like about Spain?
• 29. Is there something you do not like or would like to change about Spain?
• 30. What is the thing that you will remember most when you leave Spain?

The Camps
• 31. What do you like about living in the camps?
• 32. Why did your family move to the camps? What have you heard about your family’s migration? Who tells you these histories/stories?
• 33. Do you think your family will ever return to Western Sahara? How do you imagine Western Sahara?
• 34. When you are older, do you plan to live in the camps or to live somewhere else? Why would you want to leave?
• 35. Have you visited other countries? Would you like visit other countries? Which ones and why?

The Future
• 36. Do you want to marry some day and have a family?
• 37. Do you think you’ll choose your spouse, or will your family?
• 38. What is a good age to get married? For a boy? For a girl?
• 39. If you could change one thing about your life, what would it be?
• 40. What do you want to be when you are older?

Note: This refugee youth interview has been adapted from the one designed by H. Hoodfar for use in the Afghan study.