African Heritage Australian Youth - Forced Displacement, Educational Attainment, and Integration Outcomes

Drawing on a range of theoretical resources, policy reviews, longitudinal statistical data, and in-depth interviews, this book reports on the educational attainment and integration outcomes of African heritage Australian youth from refugee backgrounds.

List of contents

List of Figures List of Tables Abbreviations and Acronyms Acknowledgements Foreword Series Editor's Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Part I Contexts and Concepts Chapter 2: African refugees in Australia: Resettlement and representation Chapter 3: Education and refugee integration: A capability approach Part II Educational Attainment Chapter 4: School education: Aspirations, engagement, and transition Chapter 5: Higher education opportunities: Policy visibility of refugees Chapter 6: Higher education participation: Access, experience, and success Part III Integration Outcomes Chapter 7: Multiculturalism and refugee integration Chapter 8: Economic participation, social engagement, and cultural citizenship Chapter 9 Racial othering Chapter 10 Improving refugee integration: Policy ideas Index

About the author

Tebeje Molla is a senior lecturer and ARC Future Fellow in the School of Education at Deakin University, Australia. His research focuses on inequality and policy responses in education. Theoretically, his work is informed by critical sociology and a capability approach to social justice and human development. Tebeje is the author of Higher Education in Ethiopia: Structural Inequalities and Policy Responses (Springer, 2018).

Summary

Drawing on a range of theoretical resources, policy reviews, longitudinal statistical data, and in-depth interviews, this book reports on the educational attainment and integration outcomes of African heritage Australian youth from refugee backgrounds.

Product details

• Authors: Tebeje Molla, Tebeje (Deakin University Molla
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2025
• EAN: 9780367742362
• ISBN: 978-0-367-74236-2
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Studies in Migration and Diaspora
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; EDUCATION / General, Education, Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Migration, immigration & emigration, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Black & Asian Studies, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Relating to people of the African diasporas / heritage