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Sociology of education and the wasteland of refugee education research

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Refugees are stateless and outcasts and outlaws of a novel kind, the products of globalisation as discussed by the authors, refugees are human waste, with no useful function to play in the land of their arrival.
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Refugees are stateless … They are outcasts and outlaws of a novel kind, the products of globalisation … Refugees are human waste, with no useful function to play in the land of their arrival … from...

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Supporting refugee students in schools: what constitutes inclusive education?

TL;DR: In this article, the role of schooling and its contribution to the successful resettlement of refugee children is investigated. And the authors discuss how educational institutions might play a more active role in facilitating transitions to citizenship for refugee youth through an inclusive approach.
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Schooling and settlement: Refugee education in Australia

TL;DR: The authors discusses the importance of educational interventions that keep in mind both the immediacy of "what is happening now" and broader post-colonial conditions and identifies the limits of piecemeal partnership interventions and the domination of psychological approaches that individualise the issues and overemphasise pre-displacement conditions of trauma.
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Mobilising capitals? Migrant children's negotiation of their everyday lives in school

TL;DR: The authors consider how first-generation immigrant children contribute to processes of capital accumulation through their negotiation and positioning in Irish schools, and highlight migrant children's strategic orientation to their primary schooling, positioning themselves in order to maximise the exchange value from their education.
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There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack

Paul Gilroy
TL;DR: There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack as discussed by the authors is a classic book about race relations in Britain that is still dynamite today and as relevant as ever, this Routledge Classics edition includes a new introduction by the author.
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The rights of others : aliens, residents, and citizens

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reread Kant's cosmopolitan doctrine and the right to have rights and the contradictions of the nation-state in the case of the European Union, and the law of peoples, distributive justice and migrations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the culture of waste and the waste of order in the world, and propose a solution to the problem of "too many of them" in order to reduce the waste.
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Postmodernity and its Discontents

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present Discontents - Modern and Postmodern: The Strangers of the Consumer Era: from the Welfare State to Prison, and the Making and Unmaking of Strangers.
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