Education, Immigration and Migration : Revisiting and Re-imagining Policy, Leadership and Praxis for a Changing World

This timely second edition of Education, Immigration and Migration offers new insights into the ways that educational leaders, policy makers, students, teachers and community members are changing their practice in light of global migration. Including research-based chapters that touch on both local idiosyncrasies and dynamics common across many contexts, chapter authors identify issues educational leaders face as they seek to lead schools and school systems experiencing immigration and better understand their current strategies for improvement.

As the relationship between educational leadership and immigration/refugee populations is not fully understood, this updated edition will help readers gain a deeper appreciation of the scope and nature of issues at local, national and transnational levels. In doing so, authors discuss “what is working” and “what is not working,” allowing for a sharing of ideas and approaches across borders. Chapters utilize cross-disciplinary frameworks, global-national data sets, NGO reports, and descriptions of local practices in educational leadership related to the education of immigrants, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. Documenting these journeys and influences is vital to expanding the conceptual frameworks of educational leadership as a field of study beyond managing schools.

In hopes of drawing attention and awakening the field of educational leadership to the influences of [im]migration as a focal point, this volume will be of interest to state and local policymakers, educational schools, and university leaders as well as educational researchers.

Khalid H. Arar, PhD, is a Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy in the Education and Community Leadership Program at the College of Education, Texas State University. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Leadership and Policy in Schools. His research focuses on equity and dignity in K-12 and higher education, with a particular emphasis on migrant and minority populations.

Emily R. Crawford, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA). Her research explores issues related to leadership and immigration in Pk-12 public schools across geographic contexts.

Deniz Örücü, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Management in the University of Nottingham, School of Education, Centre for Research in Educational Leadership. Her research focuses on social justice in educational leadership, leadership in refugee education, higher education, educational policy and privatization of education.

Ira Bogotch, EdD, is Professor, Educational Leadership, Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL. Ira’s research has traversed the principalship, school leadership standards, teaching and learning in educational administration, leadership for social justice and the Syrian diaspora.