ERIC Number: EJ1456291
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1559-5692
EISSN: EISSN-1559-5706
Refugee Background Families' Engagement in Schooling across Migration Contexts: A Community Cultural Wealth Perspective
Christine Massing; Needal Ghadi; Daniel Kikulwe; Katerina Nakutnyy
Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, v19 n1 p29-43 2025
This study adopts Yosso's Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) framework to examine family engagement of Syrian refugee background parents with their children's elementary schooling during their migration journeys across pre-migration, transit, and resettlement contexts. Utilizing interpretive inquiry, interview and artistic data were collected from eight children and their parents over a 14-month period, then analyzed within the hermeneutic circle. The findings elucidate the various forms of capital that the families brought to their engagement with schools across contexts, suggesting that understanding familial values and beliefs is central to building positive, reciprocal relationships.
Descriptors: Refugees, Family Involvement, Migration, Family Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Parent Student Relationship, Relocation, Student Experience, Public Schools, Social Capital, Well Being, Skill Development, Family School Relationship, Social Discrimination, Resistance (Psychology)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Syria; Canada
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