Promoting Inclusive Systems for Migrants in Education

This novel contribution examines the lived experiences of migrants in education in various international contexts, exploring common school system features that promote students’ inclusion and challenge their exclusion.

With a range of international contributions and case studies from Canada, the US, Hong Kong, Japan and Europe, the book offers critical, theoretically innovative understandings examining national policies and practices to develop reforms, focusing on agency, heterogeneity and systems of relational spaces for migrant youth. Chapters engage with discussions around differentiated needs of marginalised and vulnerable groups, as well as the importance of superdiversity in studying and developing inclusive systems for migrant youth in education.

Offering unique insights, the book outlines a framework for the promotion of inclusive school systems that ultimately look to create quality learning environments that prevent discrimination, and support students’ holistic needs. It will be of great interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of sociology of education, philosophy of education, psychology of education, teacher education and social policy.

Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license. This work was supported by an Economic and Social Research Council [grant number ES/S015752/1].

Paul Downes is a Professor of Psychology of Education, and director of Educational Disadvantage Centre, Institute of Education, Dublin City University, Ireland.

Jim Anderson is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Alireza Behtoui is a Professor of Sociology, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Södertörn University, Sweden.

Lore Van Praag is an Assistant Professor in Sociology, Erasmus School for Social and Behavioral Sciences, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Netherlands.