Shifting Grounds for Education Research Amidst Multiple Pandemics: Refugee Youth Stories Countering Racialized Schooling

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Abstract

My paper grapples with the experiences of epistemic erasures of refugee youth in Croatian schools emerging at the intersections of securitization migration regimes and multiple pandemics – Islamophobia and anti-Muslim violence, anti-migrant politics, and the recent Covid-19 pandemic. In an 18 month long critical, qualitative, narrative inquiry I explored the politics of racialized schooling, surveillance, and disciplining of refugee youth from Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA). Through the refugee youth’s and my personal narratives I tell the stories of perpetual displacements of racial and cultural Others. At the same time, the refugee youth narratives counter and refuse the dominant discourses while demonstrating creative daily resistance and the new meanings of justice and solidarity worldmaking.

Author

• Emina Buzinkic, Institute for Development and International Relations