1st Edition

Migration, Borders and Education International Sociological Inquiries

Edited By Jessica Gerrard, Arathi Sriprakash Copyright 2019
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

This book brings together high-quality international research which examines how migration and borders are experienced in education. It presents new conceptualisations of education as a ‘border regime’, demonstrating the need for closer attention to ‘border thinking’, and diasporic and transnational analyses in education. We live in a time in which borders – material and political – are being... Read more
Introduction – Migration and the borders of education Section One: Understanding Borders in Education 1. Borders as the productive tension between the universal and the particular: challenges for education in a global era 2. Bordering education: migrants’ entitlements to post-compulsory education in the United Kingdom 3. Education inclusion as a border regime: implications for mobile pastoralists in Ethiopia’s Afar region 4. Educating students from refugee backgrounds: ethical conduct to resist the politics of besiegement 5. Globalisation, cosmopolitanism and diaspora: what are the implications for understanding citizenship? 6. Keeping doors open: transnational families and curricular nationalism Section Two: Bordering Practices, Resistance, and Negotiation 7. Domestic work, learning and literacy practices across transnational space 8. Learning, labour, and value: pedagogies of work, and migration 9. Political habitus in cross-border student migration: a longitudinal study of mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong and beyond 10. Global/local nexus: between global citizenship and nationalism in a super-diverse London school 11. Nation boundedness and international students’ marginalisation: what’s emotion got to do with it? 12. Constructions of race in Brazil: resistance and resignification in teacher education

Biography

Jessica Gerrard is a Senior Lecturer in Education, Equity and Politics at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She researches social inequality.



Arathi Sriprakash is a Reader in Sociology at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK, where she helps convene the Race, Empire and Education collective.