Critical Perspectives on Refugee and Migrant Integration in Education

Marcus Otto is Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media, Georg Eckert Institute, Germany.Tania Saeed is Associate Professor in the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan.

• Peace and Human Rights Education Series Foreword, Monisha Bajaj and Maria HantzopoulosForeword, Katharina Baier, Eckhardt Fuchs and Wendy Anne Kopisch (Georg Arnhold Program)Acknowledgments, Marcus Otto (Georg Eckert Institute, Germany) and Tania Saeed (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)Introduction: “Education for Integration”—Beyond Deconstruction? Potentials, Challenges, and Problems around “Integration” in Educational Discourses and Practices, Marcus Otto (Georg Eckert Institute, Germany) and Tania Saeed (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)Part I: Narratives from Practice 1. The Power of Educational Actors: Transformative Pedagogies in Contexts of Forced Displacement in Latin America, Noé Abraham González-Nieto (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)2. Inclusive Ways of Educating and Interacting with Migrant Children in a School in Northern Chile: Questions and Contradictions, Andrea Monserratt Cortés Saavedra (UCL, UK)3. Learning as Rohingya in Myanmar: IDP camps and Educational Attainment in Temporary Learning Centers, Jessica Gregson (University of Cambridge, UK)4. The Role of Education in Integrating Refugees into National Systems: The Case of Ethiopia, Teshome Mengesha Marra (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia) 5. “There Is No Future Here”: Refugee Youth, Resettlement Tunnel Vision, and Barriers to Integration, Sally Wesley Bonet (Colgate University, USA)6. Experiences of Syrian Refugee Students in Turkish Higher Education: Nasir’s Story, Melissa B. Hauber-Özer (University of Missouri, USA)7. The Role of Education for Social Cohesion in Nepal: A Practitioner’s Reflection, Bhasker Kafle (United Nations Development Programme)8. A Day in the Educational Life of a Teenage Refugee in Thessaloniki, Greece, Lucy Hunt (University of Oxford, UK)9. “Turkish for Europe”: The West Berlin Turkish Textbook Project and Education for Integration, 1980–1987, Brian Van Wyck (University of Maryland, USA)10. Problematizing Integration: Impediments to Integrative Education in Cyprus, Dilek Latif (Cyprus International University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Cyprus) 11. Community-building and Integration through Education, Denise R. Muro (University of Massachusetts, USA)Part II: Analytical Commentaries on the Narratives 12. Integration as a Practice of Pluralism: Challenges in Migration and Education, Mneesha Gellman (Emerson College, USA)13. Education and Integration: The Importance of Incorporating Refugee Youths’ Agency and Perceptions, Annett Graefe-Geusch and Johanna Okroi (German Center for Integration and Migration Research, Germany) 14. Reflections on Host Communities and the State: An Intersectional Perspective, Tania Saeed (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)15. Integration or Inclusion? A Discussion on the Diversification of Concepts of Integration in the Field of Education, Imke Rath (Leibniz Institute for Educational Media, Germany)16. Diversity at the heart of education systems: Shifting the Paradigm to Build Something New, Giovanna Modé MagalhãesConclusion and Outlook: Bringing Together and Rethinking Diverse Strands around a Troubled Concept, Tania Saeed (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan) and Marcus Otto (Georg Eckert Institute, Germany) Index

Weaving together compelling ethnographic insights from a range of contexts, Otto and Saeed’s volume pushes us to reconsider how we think about integration in and through education for refugee and migrant children and offers captivating perspectives on the dynamic tensions, contradictions and contested meanings of integration—and the possibilities beyond.