Education, Asylum and the 'Non-Citizen' Child (PDF)

HALLELI PINSON is Senior Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her research focuses on migration and education and in particular on educational policies and practices in relation to the integration of asylum-seeking children. She has published extensively on citizenship education in conflict-ridden societies and is the co-editor of Citizenship, Education and Social Conflict. She is currently the president of the Israeli Comparative Education Society and a member of the editorial boards of the British Journal of Sociology of Education and Race, Ethnicity and Education.

MADELEINE ARNOT is Emeritus Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has published extensively on educational issues relating to citizenship, gender and social class and race equality, poverty and education and social justice. She established the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement (2018) at Cambridge, and the Cambridge Migration Research Network (2014). She has researched the integration of newly arrived EAL students in the UK, and currently supports Norwegian and Australian projects on the integration of migrant children. Recent publications included Education, Mobilities and Migration: people, ideas and resources (2016) and artices in Teaching and Teacher Education, and Cambridge Journal of Education on parent-school communication about migrant children's education.

MANO CANDAPPA is Associate Professor of Sociology of Education at University College London Institute of Education, UK. She specialises in migration, forced migration and issues around social marginalization, human rights and education with a particular interest in childhoods and the politics of belonging. She has published extensively on issues around children's agency, children's rights and the experiences of refugees and asylum-seeking children and families. Recent publications include Education and Schooling for Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Students in Scotland and policy

'Asylum-seeking and refugee children have been largely invisible to the intellectual prism of the sociology of education. Their presence dramatically confronts the traditional role of the state of educating in loco parentis. Delivered with impeccable and accessible writing, this book is a true eye opener'. - Professor Carlos Alberto Torres, Director of the Paulo Freire Institute, University of California, USA

'Based on compelling empirical evidence, this volume offers important insights into the moral integrity of pupils and teachers in the face of hostile immigration policy. It is a vital contribution to current debates internationally on the challenges to the integration of refugee and asylum seeking children.' - Jo Boyden, Director of the Young Lives Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK

'This is a bold, sophisticated and impressive book which presents a careful and critical analysis of the position of asylum-seeking and refugee children. The voices and experiences of the children form a central component of the study and challenge everyone in education to live up to their inclusive rhetoric and act to stop the inhumane and oppressive treatment that so many asylum-seeking and refugee children experience on a daily basis.' - David Gillborn, Professor of Critical Race Studies in Education, Institute of Education, University of London, UK

'Education, Asylum and the 'Non-Citizen' Child is a valuable resource for people in a wide range of disciplines who care for, work, and research with children and young people.' - Children & Society

'Education, Asylum and the 'Non-Citizen' Child makes a valuable contribution to both refugee studies and the sociology of education. Drawing on multiple empirical sources, it presents a compelling narrative on the contradictions, tensions and idiosyncrasies of the asylum regime vis-a-vis the State commitment to the best interests of children enshrined in national and international laws.' - Nando