Comparative Perspectives on Refugee Youth Education

Abstract

This volume explores the shared expectations that education is a cure-all for the difficulties that refugees and their receiving countries face. Rather than focusing on pedagogy and language, as other volumes on refugee education have done, 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 receiving countries.