Education in the Global Migration Society
Critical Approaches and Interpretative Categorisations
Summary
This transnational perspective also forces us to confront the realities shaped by social inequality, systemic risks and exclusionary practices that have emerged in the wake of neoliberal policies. In education, these challenges demand urgent attention and innovative solutions.
The volume transcends the traditional boundaries of the migration field, offering a comprehensive exploration of the nexus between education and a society characterized by linguistic, cultural, and social heterogeneity.
The contributions examine how educational institutions – from early childhood services and schools to non-formal learning contexts – engage with diversity, providing reflective insights that inspire change and innovation in the educational sphere.
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Education in the Light of Transnational Realities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Fields of Educational Migration Research (Aida Kell-Delić, Fredrik Stenhjem Hagen, Wassilios Baros and Solvejg Jobst)
- Part I: Discursive Approaches to Education and Diversity Research – Transdisciplinary Perspectives and Methodological Reflections
- Thrace: The Hellenic Model of an Open Society (Evripidis St. Stylianidis)
- Meaning Making of Integration in the Context of Migration: An Exploratory Comparative Study on Governmental, NGO’s and Practitioners’ Views and Concepts (Jan Skrobanek, Rebecca Dyer Ånensen, Joakim Jensen and Yannet Urgessa)
- Tertiary Education: A Public, Semi-Public or Private Good? (Maria Pempetzoglou)
- Against the Other: Challenges in Diversity Research in an Educational Context (Hilde Birgitte Hjertager Lund and Fredrik Stenhjem Hagen)
- Part II: Multilingual Education and Institutional Practices
- Multilingual Education in Day-Care Centres (Jens Kaiser-Kratzmann)
- When Schools Really Welcome Newcomers: Critical Multilingual Education in Action! (Eleni Louloudi and Julie A. Panagiotopoulou)
- The Power of Alternative Education: A Comparative Study of How Practitioners in Norway and Spain Address Exclusion in Education (Solvejg Jobst, Susana Vazquez-Cupeiro, Jan Skrobanek, Ivan Tokheim and Alejandro Montes)
- Reception Classes in Contemporary Greek School: The Promise of Inclusion Trapped in Institutional Limitations and Contradictions in Teachers’ Practices (George Fragoulis, Christos Govaris, Dionysia Kontogianni and Christos Parthenis)
- Intercultural Readiness and Competence of Early Childhood Education Teachers in Managing a Multicultural Classroom: Teachers’ Perspectives in Thessaloniki/Greece (Vassiliki Pliogou)
- Notes on Contributors
Figures
Meaning Making of Integration in the Context of Migration: An Exploratory Comparative Study on Governmental, NGO’s and Practitioners’ Views and Concepts
Jan Skrobanek, Rebecca Dyer Ånensen, Joakim Jensen and Yannet Urgessa
When Schools Really Welcome Newcomers: Critical Multilingual Education in Action!
Eleni Louloudi and Julie A. Panagiotopoulou
Tables
Meaning Making of Integration in the Context of Migration: An Exploratory Comparative Study on Governmental, NGO’s and Practitioners’ Views and Concepts
Jan Skrobanek, Rebecca Dyer Ånensen, Joakim Jensen and Yannet Urgessa
- Table 1. Target group concepts in the national governmental, NGO/third sector and practitioner debates
- Table 2. Markers and means in the national governmental, NGO/third sector and practitioners’ debates
Intercultural Readiness and Competence of Early Childhood Education Teachers in Managing a Multicultural Classroom: Teachers’ Perspectives in Thessaloniki/Greece
Vassiliki Pliogou
Education in the Light of Transnational Realities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Fields of Educational Migration Research
This compilation of articles emerged from diverse international and transdisciplinary academic formats with special attention to educational issues relevant in the “global migration society”. The notion goes along with an overall social perspective,1 in which migration and transnational lifeworlds represent the normal case. It emphasises that migration “expresses central social conditions”2 and is linked to power relations in society.3 Hence, it provides a wider analytical frame for a “transnational perspective”4 in educational migration research that addresses both the global consequences of flight and migration for the migration society, particularly in the field of education, while also critically considering their global causes.5
Details
- Pages
- X, 232
- Publication Year
- 2026
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783631933565
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783631933572
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631933558
- DOI
- 10.3726/b22667
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2026 (October)
- Keywords
- Education Migration Educational Migration Research Transnational Perspectives Comparative Perspectives Diversity Research Multilingual Education Early Childhood Education Alternative Education Reception Classes Tertiary Education Minority Rights
- Published
- Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, Oxford, 2026. x, 232 pp., 6 fig. col., 3 tables.
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