Worlds On the Move: educational and welfare responses to changing migration patterns

by: Jill Rutter

ISBN: 9781858563756

Price: £21.99

Quantity:

220 pages
244 x 170mm
Due April 2012

There has been a significant increase in the number of international migrants to the UK since 1989. Based on new research, Worlds on the Move looks at the responses of schools and child welfare agencies to the changing migration patterns. It explores the asylum-migration nexus, transnational families, community solidarity and the debates about pupil mobility in the UK, and presents new material about the hidden community of West Africans, and about economic migrants from Portugal and Poland.

The book is written for teachers, policy makers and academics.

Author Details

For 13 years the Education Officer at the Refugee Council and the author of Supporting Refugee Children in 21st Century Britain, Jill Rutter is based at the Day Care Trust.

Contents

PART ONE: SETTING THE SCENE

Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Migrant children in the UK and what we know about them
Chapter Three: National and local migration policy
Chapter Four: Educational and welfare responses to migrant children
Chapter Five: Migration in rural and urban Britain: two case studies

PART TWO: DEALING WITH THE ISSUES

Chapter Six: Educational achievement and intergenerational mobility
Chapter Seven: The impact of parental employment on children from the European Union
Chapter Eight: A life in limbo: understanding children affected by irregular migration
Chapter Nine: Dealing with the root causes: a case study of young Afghans in the UK
Chapter Ten: Host community views: improving teaching about migration
Chapter Eleven: Conclusions

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