1st Edition

Schooling Experiences of Refugee Children in Uganda Rethinking Integration Policies

By Manya Oriel Kagan Copyright 2026
236 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This timely book analyses the state of refugee child integration in the education system in urban primary schools in Uganda, debating policies both pre- and post-COVID, and giving voice to narratives often marginalized in debates concerning refugees in educational spaces in the Global South.  Using rich ethnographic data collected from primary schools in Kampala, Uganda, the text offers a... Read more

Chapter 1:          Introduction – Situating the study

Chapter 2:          What can we learn from the case of Uganda?

Chapter 3:          Mapping, tracking, and sorting: Locating refugee children in Kampala City

Chapter 4:          “Are we together?”: Ubuntu and Convergent Pedagogy  

Chapter 5:          “Refugees – they benefit everyone”: Schools’ interpretations of mainstreaming policy

Chapter 6:          What’s in a label? Exploring the privileges, meanings, and challenges of refugeehood

Chapter 7:          “I don’t see Somali Girls”: Variations on refugee experience

Chapter 8:          “They say, ‘Since you have these children, we’ll help’ – but they don’t”: Fostering (Un)accompanied Refugee Children

Chapter 9:          “When I will be in America”: Resettlement Policy, Educational Investment, and the future

Chapter 10:        Conclusion – Durable Solutions - Reconsidering Integration Policies and Practices for refugee Children in the Urban Global South

Biography

Manya Oriel Kagan is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Migration and Sustainable Development group at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.