Posts tagged Integration
Political Economy of Refugees: How responsibility shapes the politics of education

Research | The political economy for refugees can be understood as distinct from the political economy for citizens as it requires addressing fundamental questions of responsibility and assumptions about time horizons. This is particularly true in education, which is by nature a long-term engagement and investment and for which responsibility is presumed to lie with governments. As host countries and the global community grapple with decisions about how to provide refugee education, it is critical to understand how the political economy for refugees and for citizens may differ to ensure that approaches are equitable and effective for refugees and host communities.

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Refugee Stories: Education: Obstacles and Aspirations

Resource | Refugee Stories: Education: Obstacles and Aspirations draws on findings from a doctoral research on young refugees’ educational experiences in England. The study investigated how young refugee people and their families have encountered the education system while considering the implications of living as refugees in England. Young refugee people’s right to education is enshrined in British law; however, the UK has no specific educational policy for them.Invisibilizing practices add to the silence around their experiences and needs. Refugee Stories tells young refugees’ and families’ stories to amplify their voices and shine a light on the social and material conditions they experience.

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Pedagogies of Belonging: Educators Building Welcoming Communities in Settings of Conflict and Migration

Resource | Pedagogies of Belonging: Educators Building Welcoming Communities in Settings of Conflict & Migration is a book is about educators, and for educators, and the practices they have developed to create welcoming communities in settings of migration. Each page of the book is a “microportrait” of one educator who we have come to know by spending time in their classroom and school. We learn from educators how they build welcoming communities, how they create space for dissent, for dialogue, for trust, for new identities, for future-building, and how they envision and build newly imagined communities.

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Cultivating Trust: How Educators Can Build Relationships with their Afghan Refugee Students

Resource | This new resource is for educators who seek to know about their Afghan students’ experiences to better support them. The resource highlights three central elements that can cultivate trust: Safe classrooms, Community connections, and Quality learning. It ends with suggested questions for educators to facilitate conversations about each of the three elements of trust with students, families, and community leaders.

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نشعر بكم: ما يتمنّى الطلاب اللاجئون السوريون أن يعرفه أساتذتهم

Video | New animation and research by the Refugee REACH team examines pedagogies of care and belonging in refugee contexts. Research included 8 months of observations in public and private schools in Lebanon and over 100 hours of interviews with Syrian Grade 9 students, their teachers, and families.

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