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Publication Date: 2017
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Subjectivation, Agency and the Schooling of Raced and Dis/Abled Asylum-Seeking Children in the Italian Context
Migliarini, Valentina
Intercultural Education, v28 n2 p182-195 2017
This paper intends to address the challenges that the Italian education system is facing in terms of policies and practices relating to dis/abled asylum-seeking and refugee children, in order to make sense of the politics of daily life inside schools and the network of social services for forced migrants, and to pay renewed attention to the notion of "social and educational integration". The starting point of this paper is the idea that the current model of schooling for asylum-seeking and refugee children is implicated in the making of particular sorts of "subjects", as well as the creation of educational and social exclusions and inequalities. Schools, refugee organisations as well as the work of educators and social workers can be important sites of "counter-politics". Borrowing from the theoretical tools offered by Dis/Ability Critical Race Studies (Dis/Crit) framework and engaging with Judith Butler's understanding of processes of subjectivation, the paper explores how asylum-seeking and refugee students can be rendered subjects outside the educational endeavour, or indeed outside studenthood. Data from an ongoing constructivist grounded theory doctoral research project, interviews with asylum-seeking children and with professionals working in different refugee services in Rome, are offered to substantiate the argument presented in this paper.
Descriptors: Disabilities, Refugees, Foreign Countries, Critical Theory, Race, Politics of Education, Social Services, Social Isolation, Grounded Theory, Interviews, Student Attitudes, Counselor Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Foster Care
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Italy (Rome)
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