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16.028 - Examining Identity to Enhance Learning Opportunities Among Resettled Refugee Youth

Thu, April 27, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Grand Hyatt San Antonio, Floor: Second Floor, Mission B

Session Type: Symposium

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Roughly a million refugees resettled in the United States in the past decade, many of whom are school-aged youth. As a society, we face an urgent need to support learning and adaptation of the youth in the new destination country and build on their rich resources and experiences as assets to advance their learning and society at large. To respond to the need, the proposed symposium brings researchers who examine identities of resettled refugee youth across different local contexts in an attempt to draw better understandings about refugee youth and support their learning. We open a conversation about how identity as a tool to study and design programs for refugee youth may afford and/or limit our work with refugee youth.

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