Halleli Pinson, Madeleine Arnot, and Mano Candappa

ISBN: 978-0-23052468-2
Published London: Palgrave Macmillan, April 2010
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This book draws on 10 years of empirical research to assess for the first time the politics of compassion and belonging associated with immigration policy and its impact on the education system in the UK.

 

The authors expose significant tensions between restrictive government asylum policies and the responses by schools and local government to the presence of asylum- -seeking and refugee children. They reveal a compassionate professionalism amongst teachers and an emergent ‘new politics’ which challenges the forcible removal by government of children to detention centres and the deportation of families.

This innovative research exposes the forms of exclusion which ‘non-citizen’ children experience within inclusive schools and the ways in which the empathy of ‘citizen’ students towards those seeking asylum is at risk of being overridden by defensive national identities.

This book is essential reading for courses on children’s rights, equality and migration studies and for teachers and other professionals in the field of refugee education, immigration and community and social work.

 

Reviews:

 

Asylum-seeking and refugee children have been largely invisible to the intellectual prism of the sociology of education. Their presence dramatically confronts the traditional role of the state of educating in loco parentis. Delivered with impeccable and accessible writing, this book is a true eye opener’. - Professor Carlos Alberto Torres, Director of the Paulo Freire Institute, University of California, USA

 'Based on compelling empirical evidence, this volume offers important insights into the moral integrity of pupils and teachers in the face of hostile immigration policy. It is a vital contribution to current debates internationally on the challenges to the integration of refugee and asylum seeking children.' - Jo Boyden, Director of the Young Lives Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK

'This is a bold, sophisticated and impressive book which presents a careful and critical analysis of the position of asylum-seeking and refugee children. The voices and experiences of the children form a central component of the study and challenge everyone in education to live up to their inclusive rhetoric and act to stop the inhumane and oppressive treatment that so many asylum-seeking and refugee children experience on a daily basis.' - David Gillborn, Professor of Critical Race Studies in Education, Institute of Education, University of London, UK

 

The Authors:

HALLELI PINSON is Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Research Fellow at the Van-Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel. Her research focuses on young people's political identities, citizenship education and social conflict and the interface between government immigration and educational policy in the UK. She recently won the prestigious Alon Fellowship. Her publications include Citizenship, Education and Social Conflicts.

MADELEINE ARNOT is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK and Director of the Youth, Gender and Citizenship project in Africa and South East Asia. She has published extensively on educational issues relating to citizenship, social inequality and social justice. Her recent publications include Gender Education and Equality in a Global Context and Educating the Gendered Citizen and articles on educational policy in relation to teacher responses to asylum seeking students.

MANO CANDAPPA is Senior Research Officer at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK. Her research focuses on childhoods, social care, education, migration, the experiences of refugees and asylum–seeking children and families. Recent publications include Education and Schooling for Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Students in Scotland