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Decolonising Lifelong Learning in the Age of Transnational Migration examines how colonialism has shaped migration and migrants' transnational learning experiences. This book was originally published as a special issue of the
International Journal of Lifelong Education.
List of contents
Introduction: Decolonising lifelong learning in the age of transnational migration 1.Theorising decolonisation in the context of lifelong learning and transnational migration: anticolonial and anti-racist perspectives 2. Abyssal lines and cartographies of exclusion in migration and education: towards a reimagining 3. Towards a postcolonial politics of appearance: unsettling lifelong learning as a racial contract 4. Ageing transmigrants and the decolonisation of life course 5. Decolonising dominant knowledge constructions in the education of immigrant youth in Canada 6. Futures in line? Occupational choice among migrant adult students in Sweden 7. Transnational strategies and lifelong learning in the shadow of citizenship: Chinese migrants in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg 8. Unsettling equity frames in Australian universities to embrace people seeking asylum.
About the author
Shibao Guo is a professor at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada. He specialises in citizenship and immigration, adult and lifelong learning, and comparative and international education. He has numerous publications, including books, journal articles, and book chapters. Currently he serves as co-editor of Canadian Ethnic Studies.
Srabani Maitra is a lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research combines interdisciplinary theories and methodologies from sociology and education to focus on education/learning, workplace skill training, and transnational migration, as well as anti-racist and anti-colonial education.
Summary
Decolonising Lifelong Learning in the Age of Transnational Migration examines how colonialism has shaped migration and migrants’ transnational learning experiences. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Lifelong Education.
