Refugees, Immigrants, and Education in the Global South
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The unprecedented human mobility the world is now experiencing poses new and unparalleled challenges regarding the provision of social and educational services throughout the global South. This volume examines the role played by schooling in immigrant incorporation or exclusion, using case studies of countries in Eastern Asia, Africa, Central America, and the Middle East. Drawing on key concepts in anthropology, the authors offer timely sociocultural analyses of how governments manage increasing diversity and how immigrants strategize to maximize their educational investments. The findings…mehr

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The unprecedented human mobility the world is now experiencing poses new and unparalleled challenges regarding the provision of social and educational services throughout the global South. This volume examines the role played by schooling in immigrant incorporation or exclusion, using case studies of countries in Eastern Asia, Africa, Central America, and the Middle East. Drawing on key concepts in anthropology, the authors offer timely sociocultural analyses of how governments manage increasing diversity and how immigrants strategize to maximize their educational investments. The findings have significant implications for global efforts to expand educational inclusion and equity.
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Autorenporträt
Lesley Bartlett is an Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. She recently published Teaching in Tension: International Pedagogies, National Policies, and Teachers' Practices in Tanzania (co-edited with Frances Vavrus, Sense Publishers, 2012) and Additive Schooling in Subtractive Times: Bilingual Education and Dominican Immigrant Youth in the Heights (co-authored with Ofelia Garcia, Vanderbilt University Press, 2011). Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Director of the International Educational Development Program at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education. Her areas of expertise are in migration and education, citizenship and transnationalism, and curriculum and pedagogy in international contexts.