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Publication Date: 2014-Sep
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Ahiska Refugee Families' Configuration of Resettlement and Academic Success in U.S. Schools
Bal, Aydin; Arzubiaga, Angela E.
Urban Education, v49 n6 p635-665 Sep 2014
In this article, we report on an ethnographic study of figured worlds of resettlement and identities that Muslim refugee youth from the Russian Federation coconstructed in an urban school at the Southwestern U.S. border. In the school, multiple cultural-historical discourses came together within a global context: refugee families, a global Islamic movement, and deficit-oriented educational ideologies. Three empirically derived themes emerged: Glocal adaptation, multiple literacies, and sticking together. The overall impact of this study derives from two aspects of the analysis: The cultural-historical analysis of refugee resettlement and the hybrid identities of refugee students.
Descriptors: Refugees, Success, Relocation, Academic Achievement, Ethnography, Muslims, Urban Schools, Family Characteristics, Ideology, Multiple Literacies, Student Adjustment, Student Characteristics, Charter Schools, Semi Structured Interviews, Parent Surveys, Student Surveys, Teacher Surveys, Global Education, Personal Narratives, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
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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: Russia; Turkey
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