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Education, Schooling, and Migration

Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2019

ISBN: 978-1-83867-724-4, eISBN: 978-1-83867-723-7

Publication date: 17 June 2020

Abstract

While migration has been part of the human experience for close to 200,000 years, we currently live in an era of mass migration. Children under the age of 18 are impacted by migration in multiple ways: a quarter of all children in OECD countries have an immigrant parent; in large cities across the developed world, between 40% and 65% of children are from immigrant or refugee families. Immigrant children and children of immigrants are the fastest growing demographic group in schools around the world. For at least the past two decades, evidence demonstrates that children and/or their parents arrive with high expectations for schooling and their children’s future aspirations, in general the longer the contact with schooling in their new countries, the lower their well-being. In this chapter, we will look at the data behind this evidence in a variety of contexts of displacement. We will highlight emerging new directions in education for newcomer/migrant populations as we look to promising practices in schools for migrant youths, their peers and their school communities.

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Mosselson, J. and Chinkondenji, P. (2020), "Education, Schooling, and Migration", Wiseman, A.W. (Ed.) Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2019 (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 39), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 323-334. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-367920200000039026

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