Critical Juxtaposing of War and Migration: A Content Analysis of Southeast Asian Refugee Children’s Literature

An, Sohyun

doi:10.1080/00377996.2022.2046996

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“…While recognizing important differences between 'immigrants' and 'refugees', we look at both groups in textbook narratives as a broad marker for foreign-born populations that nation-states seek to integrate. Of course, the mere recognition or mention of immigrants and refugees does not mean that textbooks fairly represent their contributions to society, as previous studies have established (An, 2022;Foster, 2001). However, it is still important to closely examine the extent to which immigrants and refugees are visible as legitimate social groups to be discussed in textbooks.…”

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Portrayal of immigrants and refugees in textbooks worldwide, 1963–2011

Choi,

Lerch

2024

International Sociology

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Sociologists have long studied the educational incorporation of immigrants and refugees, but most scholarship focuses on questions of access, achievement, attainment, and acculturation. We extend this literature by examining the incorporation of immigrants and refugees in the cultural content of schooling, drawing on a unique dataset spanning 509 textbooks from 80 countries, representing all regions of the world from 1963 to 2011. Our descriptive and multilevel regression analyses reveal a mixed picture. On one hand, textbook discussions of immigrants and refugees have expanded over time and are especially pervasive in textbooks that invoke post-national conceptions of citizenship and in countries that host large foreign-born populations. But we also document stagnating discussions of immigrants and refugees in recent decades, a casting of these groups as part of the historical past more than contemporary civics and society, and a tendency toward their curricular omission in countries with a recent history of war.

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Section: Immigrants and Refugees In Textbooks: A Focus On The Cultura...mentioning

confidence: 99%