Immigration Article of the Day: Refugee Education: The Crossroads of Globalization by Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Refugee Education: The crossroads of Globalization by Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Educational Researcher, Vol. 45, Issue 9, December 2016, 473–482
Abstract: This article probes a question at the core of comparative education—how to realize the right to education for all and ensure opportunities to use that education for future participation in society. I do so through examination of refugee education from World War II to the present, including analysis of an original data set of documents (n = 214) and semistructured interviews (n = 208). The data illuminate how refugee children are caught between the global promise of universal human rights, the definition of citizenship rights within nation-states, and the realization of these sets of rights in everyday practices. conceptually, I demonstrate the misalignment between normative aspirations, codes and doctrines, and mechanisms of enforcement within nation-states, which curtails refugees’ abilities to activate their rights to education, to work, and to participate in society.
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