Empowering Subaltern Voices Through Education - The Chakma Diaspora in Australia

Based on a four¿year-long empirical study, this book employs contemporary theories from the Global South to investigate the role of education in the experience of migration and settlement of the Chakma people of Bangladesh in Australia.

List of contents

Part I: Overview: Contextualising the Study 1. History of the Chakma and the Chittagong Hill Tracts 2. Chakma and Education: A Critical Chronology of Socio-politics Part II: Theorising Minority Identities 3. The Politics of Indigeneity, Othering, and Belongingness 4. Chakma and Migration for and Through Education 5. Theoretical Understandings of the Chakmas Diasporic Journeys Part III: Empirically Situating the Study 6. Roles of Education in Upward Mobility, Security, and Advocacy 7. Enrichment, Not Assimilation: Preserving Culture in Diaspora 8. Conclusion

About the author

Urmee Chakma works as a lecturer of humanities and pedagogy in the School of Education at La Trobe University, Australia. She earned her PhD from the Faculty of Education, Monash University and worked as a teaching and research associate at Monash from 2018 to 2022. She has been an educator for over 15 years. Her areas of research interest include Indigenous education, diasporic communities, citizenship studies, and social justice.

Summary

Based on a four-year-long empirical study, this book employs contemporary theories from the Global South to investigate the role of education in the experience of migration and settlement of the Chakma people of Bangladesh in Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Urmee Chakma, Urmee (Faculty of Education Chakma
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.02.2023
• EAN: 9781032354507
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3235450-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Diasporas, Migrations and Mobilities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, EDUCATION / General, Sociology, Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Anthropology, EDUCATION / Multicultural Education, Colonialism & imperialism, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Colonialism and imperialism, Multicultural education, Educational strategies and policy