Schooling Experiences of Refugee Children in Uganda: Rethinking Integration Policies (Migration and Education)

This timely book analyses the state of refugee child integration in the education system in urban primary schools in Uganda, debating policies both pre- and post-COVID, and giving voice to narratives often marginalized in debates concerning refugees in educational spaces in the Global South.Using rich ethnographic data collected from primary schools in Kampala, Uganda, the text offers a sociological analysis into the different contextual aspects that shape the lived experiences of refugee children, parents, foster families, and their schools, along with an investigation of policies relating to self-reliance, refugee aid, fostering, and resettlement.Chapters showcase extensive qualitative fieldwork including interviews, document analysis, and focus groups that analysed classroom praxis and interrogated the values instilled in pupils, raising questions about the relevance of western-driven conceptualizations of integration, belonging, and otherness for the Ugandan classroom context.Ultim