Comparative Perspectives on Refugee Youth Education: Dreams and Realities in Educational Systems Worldwide

by Alexander Wiseman (Editor), Lisa Damaschke-Deitrick (Editor), Maureen F. Park (Editor)

This volume explores the shared expectations that education is a panacea for the difficulties that refugees and their receiving countries face. This book investigates the ways in which education is both a dream solution as well as a contested landscape for refugee families and students. Using comparative, cross-national perspectives across five continents, the editors and contributors critically analyze the educational structures, policies, and practices intended to support refugee youth transition from conflict and post-conflict zones to mainstream classrooms and schools in their new communities.

302 pages, Hardcover

Published June 10, 2019