Migration and education: life stories in motion

• In Event: Roundtable Session (Wednesday IV)

Group Submission Type: Refereed Round-Table Session

Proposal

Migration has emerged as one of the most pressing global political and educational challenges of the contemporary period. It raises important questions about the role of schools, education and social services more generally, in promoting sustainable and inclusive social and economic development in contexts of resettlement. What knowledge is sustained, repurposed, or unlearned as migrants forge lives in new contexts? Where do stories of migration begin? Where do they end? Drawing on biographical research with migrant youth in Germany, Sweden and the U.S., the papers presented in this roundtable argue for privileging migrants’ social and cultural capital, individual agency and resilience in policy and practice.

Sub Unit

• General Pool

Individual Presentations

• Unaccompanied Refugee Minors – Life Histories of Being a Refugee, Interactions and Resilience in Multiple Contexts - Nihad Bunar, Stockholm University

• Uprisings, Migration and Education: Youth Biographies from Berlin - Linda Herrera, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• ‘Not everyone thought I would make it. But here I am!’ - Anna Lund, Stockholm University

• 4. Newcomer Immigrant and Refugee Youths’ Life Stories and Civic Engagement - Liv Davila, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign