Understanding the educational landscape for refugee background students in non-metropolitan Australia
A scoping review
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21522656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Taghreed Jamal Al-Deen (0000-0003-3258-0057, La Trobe University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 3123-3141 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Australian Educational Researcher (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0311-6999 • E-ISSN: 2210-5328 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s13384-025-00844-2 |
| OpenAlex | W4409982955 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 35 |
This scoping review explores the educational experiences of refugee-background students (RBSs) within remote, rural and regional Australia. It synthesises literature on RBSs in these contexts to identify unique educational challenges. This review analyses relevant studies published between 2015 and 2024 to uncover themes at the intersection of non-metropolitan settings and refugee education. The challenges identified included limited access to resources and barries to school engagement, academic success and a sense of belonging. Understanding the complex dynamics at play is essential because these schools often operate within racialised communities with fewer resources which may limit their capacity to support RBSs. Nevertheless, schools also hold potential as critical sites for building resilience and community for these students. This review highlights the need for tailored educational policies and practices designed to meet the specific needs of RBSs with a focus on inclusive learning environments that recognise the students’ diverse backgrounds and experiences. Such approaches can facilitate successful integration and improve educational outcomes, creating a more supportive and equitable educational landscape for RBSs
Archaeology · Environmental planning · Geography · Metropolitan area · Refugee · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Migration, Health and Trauma
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Enablers and barriers for plurilingual practices
Refugees and school engagement
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Connecting rights and inequality in education
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Education, Racial Justice, and the Limits of Inclusion in Settler Colonial Australia
The spatial implications of academic achievement in Year 12
Re-imagining multicultural education
Australian school practices and the education experiences of students with a refugee background
The Regional Migration-Development Nexus in Australia
Hapless Victims” or “Making Trouble”
Black bodies, White rural spaces
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Lazy multiculturalism
Towards a critical transformative approach to inclusive intercultural education
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Young people's rural multicultures
Really really different different’
Maligned mobilities, absences and emergencies
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Racism and Othering for South Sudanese heritage students in Australian schools
Educating in the context of ‘Dispersal’
Planning for Belonging
Tensions between policy aspirations and enactment
Disrupting the dominance of ‘linear pathways’
Regional Resettlement of Refugees
Scoping studies
Centring settler colonialism in rural Australian multicultures
Creating 'advantageous' spaces for migrant and refugee youth in regional areas
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |