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Open Access: The book Perspectives on Transitions in Refugee Education is an Open Access title (DOI: 10.3224/84742626) which is free to download or can be bought as paperback. The book holds a Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ / Der Titel Perspectives on Transitions in Refugee Education (DOI: 10.3224/84742626) ist kostenlos im Open Access (PDF) herunterladbar oder kostenpflichtig als Print-Ausgabe erhältlich. Der Titel steht unter der Creative Commons Lizenz Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Refugees face transitions in their lives: at an individual, a social and a cultural level. This book covers various aspects of these transitions and their intersections with educational experiences. Studies from different country contexts show the complex relationships between individual, culture, society and institutions. Examining these relationships and experiences during transitional processes aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of the different types of transitions in the context of refugee education, which may lead to an improvement of support structures in the future.

The aim of this book is to present various aspects of transitions that refugees are facing in their lives and the intersections among these transitions and refugee education. Chapters from different country contexts reveal how refugees engage in several transitional processes due to movement between different countries, their settlement in a new country, as well as the transitions that are inherent to their life-course. Examining the various aspects of such relationships and experiences during transitional processes may help to understand the typologies of different transitions in the context of refugee education. Transitional processes that the chapters of the book tackle include educational transitions, transformative transitions, cultural transitions as well as social transitions from various refugee groups’ perceptions including parents, students, teachers and unaccompanied minors. Several chapters discuss how experience of transition is influenced by rules, regulations, and responses of micro and macro environments, such as local community, institutions, governments at the national and international levels while some other specifically indicate the aspects of transitions taking place in schools.

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The editors:
Seyda Subasi Singh, PhD, works at the Department of Education at the Faculty of Philosophy and Education at the University of Vienna, Austria
Olja Jovanović Milanović, PhD, works at the Department of Psychology and the Center for Teacher Education at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Michelle Proyer, PhD, works at the Center for Teacher Education and the Department of Education at the Faculty of Philosophy and Education at the University of Vienna, Austria.

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The target group:
Lecturers and researchers in educational science and migration studies

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Autor*innen

Seyda Subasi Singh

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Olja Jovanović

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Michelle Proyer

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Keywords

educational inclusion, forced migration, refugee education, refugees, social inclusion, transitions

Pressestimmen

In conclusion, this book presents interesting and significant research on refugees throughout the educational transition.(…) In addition, this book may be seen as a tool for understanding the difficulties and problems refugees face in educational transition, as well as a solution for a better future for refugees, with some suggestions for future legislation and research. I recommend this book especially to social workers dealing with refugees, as it may come as a useful tool in the context of the large number of refugees in Ukraine and not only, as well as to social work students and lecturers.

Alexandra-Nicoleta Dimofte, European Journal of Social Work 06-2023

Singh et al. propose an interesting collection of contributions that introduce its readers to the central characteristics of refugee education and draw attention to important issues faced by a field in urgent need of moving forward.

Caroline Spaas, Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2