Youth aspirations in Kakuma Refugee Camp

Education as a means for social, spatial, and economic (im)mobility

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12726018
AutoresMichelle Bellino (0000-0001-5843-0001, University of Michigan, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume16
Fascículo4
Páginas541-556
Data de publicação2018-08-08
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGlobalisation Societies and Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1476-7724 • E-ISSN: 1476-7732
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14767724.2018.1512049
OpenAlexW2888065223
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas23
Referências citadas35

This study documents the aspirations and apprehensions of youth as they complete secondary schooling in Kakuma Refugee Camp. Navigating contradictory discourses about the value of education, school-leavers approach postsecondary opportunities with attention to social status hierarchies, economic viability, and collective expectations for nation-building goals. This work contributes to understandings of formal education interacting with culturally bounded expectations for normative adulthood, examining how youth respond when they are unable to adhere to a linear trajectory of success. I argue that foregrounding democratic purposes of schooling in exile can expand conceptions of nation-building and successful adulthood, opening and de-stigmatizing multiple future pathways

Democracy · Foregrounding · Normative · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Gender Studies · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration