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Language, Education, and Power in Refugee Camps: A Comparison of Kakuma Refugee Camp (Kenya) and Thai-Myanmar Refugee Camps

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Le, Hang M. – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2021

While there is growing attention to language as a central issue in education for refugees, this policy area still appears to be dominated by an apolitical, technical, and instrumentalist perspective. Through a comparison of language-in-education policies in two refugee camp contexts, Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya and the refugee camps along the…

Descriptors: Refugees, Emergency Shelters, Language of Instruction, Educational Policy