1st Edition

Forced Migration, Disability and Education Inclusion and Exclusion at the Intersection of Displacement and Disablement

Edited By Marketa Bacakova, Wayne Veck, Julie Wharton Copyright 2026
294 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

294 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

294 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Offering the first book-length analysis of the ways in which exclusion affects the lives and educational experiences of refugees with disabilities, this book examines the right to inclusive education for displaced persons with disabilities, arguing for an intersectional approach to advancing social justice in education globally. Effectively encountering twice the amount of discrimination,... Read more

About the editors

List of contributors

Introduction

PART I Theorizing intersectional possibilities

1 Attentive intersectionality and the inclusion of disabled refugees in education

Wayne Veck

2 I and thou, displacement and disability: teachers welcoming children and young people seeking sanctuary at the intersection

Julie Wharton

3 The right to inclusive education in situations of emergencies and forced migration

Marketa Bacakova and Therese Franklin

4 Disability exclusion within forced displacement context: the quantitative evidence of educational participation of refugee children

Ilgi Bozdag and Sebastian Steinmuller

5 The apparatus of integration and the entanglement of racism and ableism in the context of forced migration: impulses from dis/ability critical race studies in education

Jonas Becker

PART II Policies

6 “Neoliberal inclusion” and the structural exclusion of Syrian refugee children with disabilities from humanitarian education in Lebanon

Giada Costantini

7 Educational trajectories of refugee children with disabilities: the unique case of the Turkish context

Sultan Kilinc and Elif Karsli-Calamak

8 Refugees with disabilities in U.S. higher education: lived experiences of access, exclusion and support

Mustafa Rfat, Qusay S. Hussein Al-Mamari, Manar-ul Islam Swaby, Mary Joan Reutter and Thamera Al Maqsood

9 The right to inclusive education of refugees with disabilities within an integration system: lessons learned from Europe

Christos Tsevas

10 Displacement and educational disability: basic educational challenges for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Nigeria

Vivienne Kachollom Rwang

11 Students with migration background and special educational needs versus their rights to and in education – the Polish context

Urszula Markowska-Manista, Olha Ovcharenko and Magda Żelazowska-Sobczyk

12 Leveraging intersectionality for the educational inclusion of refugees with disabilities in Europe

Lucy Hunt and Joanna McIntyre

PART III Practices

13 Layers of forced migration: blind Syrian refugees and the road to education in Lebanon

Yomna El-Serafy

14 Social inclusion and world making: a narrative inquiry study into the experiences of Syrian refugee families with children living with disabilities

Vera Caine, Heather Raymond, Elin Eriksen Odegaard, Pam Steeves, Geert Van Hove, Geir Aaserud, Floor Verhaeghe, C. Aiden Downey and D. Jean Clandinin

15 Disability and displacement: the unmet rights of refugees in technical vocational education and training

David Monk, Roda Madziva, Robert Jjuuko, Aine Byoona Desire, Salome Joy Awidi and George Ladaah Openjuru

16 Neither here nor there: patterns of educational integration of Ukrainian young refugees with disability to Warsaw and Bucharest

Monika Nowicka, Bogdan Voicu, Alexandra Deliu and Magda Szarota

17 Forced to leave my home behind with (in) visible scars: examining the case of displaced rural women in postconflict Angola

Dina de Sousa e Santos

18 Families in England at the disability–sanctuary intersection

Wendy Conrad and Geraldene Codina

Conclusion: from invisibility to inclusion – towards justice for refugees with disabilities

Index

Biography

Marketa Bacakova is Professor of Early Childhood Education, IU International University of Applied Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.

Wayne Veck is Professor of Education, University of Winchester, UK.

Julie Wharton is Senior Lecturer and part of the Additional Needs team, Institute of Education, University of Winchester, UK.