Policying and Policing: The Governance of Refugee/(Im)migrant Education in an Age of Hostility—2nd Edition
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 46
Special Issue Editor
Interests: refugee/(im)migrant education; ethnography; anthropology of education; critical education policy; Actor-Network Theory
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For the unprecedented numbers of forcibly displaced persons, including those who have been designated as refugees/(im)migrants, global, national, and regional policies are instrumental in managing, controlling, disciplining, and surveilling their movements—physically, ideologically, and imaginatively. In this Special Issue, we are specifically interested in the ways in which refugee/(im)migrant education policy is shaped by, and inextricably bound, to restrictive migration policies, transnational detention systems, and regional political discourses. As education policy is enacted variably across the globe, what are the effects on refugee/(im)migrant populations—on both children and adults? How, we ask, do education policies define access and opportunity in learning and teaching contexts? Furthermore, how do they affect the educational experiences, and the lives, of refugees? We invite contributions that address these questions, as well as others related to this topic.
The Assistant Editors for this Special Issue are Adnan Turan and Setrag Hovsepian; please feel free to reach out if you have any inquiries.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The criminalization of refugee education;
- Detention-based schooling;
- Discourses of blame/integration/exclusion;
- Education equity for refugees;
- Language education;
- Refugee and im(migrant) voices in education;
- Refugee education and nationalism;
- Refugee protections in education;
- Refugees and higher education;
- The roles of schools in presenting and representing refugees and refugee education.
Prof. Dr. Jill Koyama
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- refugee education
- education policy
- education equity
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