Concerted Community Engagement: Refugee Education and Parents’ Daily Acts of Resistance
Around the world, millions of young people and their families navigate education in settings of conflict and displacement. Despite the growing number of refugee families seeking educational opportunities outside their countries of origin, there is scant research on the efforts families undertake to...
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| description | Around the world, millions of young people and their families navigate education in settings of conflict and displacement. Despite the growing number of refugee families seeking educational opportunities outside their countries of origin, there is scant research on the efforts families undertake to ensure and improve this education. In this study, I seek to understand how families participate in refugee children’s education in displacement. Drawing on interviews with 16 refugee parents and caregivers living in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, I find that caregivers actively engage in their children’s schooling. Through what I am calling <i>concerted community engagement</i>, families choose, monitor, and supplement schools, working to ensure that refugee children benefit from the education they receive in exile as they build lives in the present and for the future. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1cfcc297f1274ab5bb2a6898d2f0123d2025-08-20T01:55:52ZengMDPI AGSocial Sciences2076-07602024-08-0113944010.3390/socsci13090440Concerted Community Engagement: Refugee Education and Parents’ Daily Acts of ResistanceCelia Reddick0College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4450, USAAround the world, millions of young people and their families navigate education in settings of conflict and displacement. Despite the growing number of refugee families seeking educational opportunities outside their countries of origin, there is scant research on the efforts families undertake to ensure and improve this education. In this study, I seek to understand how families participate in refugee children’s education in displacement. Drawing on interviews with 16 refugee parents and caregivers living in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, I find that caregivers actively engage in their children’s schooling. Through what I am calling <i>concerted community engagement</i>, families choose, monitor, and supplement schools, working to ensure that refugee children benefit from the education they receive in exile as they build lives in the present and for the future.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/13/9/440refugee educationrefugee parentsKenyaKakuma Refugee Camplanguage |
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| title | Concerted Community Engagement: Refugee Education and Parents’ Daily Acts of Resistance |
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