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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255322803321

Autore

Jolliffe Pia

Titolo

Learning, Migration and Intergenerational Relations : The Karen and the Gift of Education / / by Pia Jolliffe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9781137572189

1137572183

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 180 p. 10 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies on Children and Development, , 2947-5732

Disciplina

320.95

Soggetti

Asia - Politics and government

Community development

Social service

Economic development

International education

Comparative education

Education and state

Asian Politics

Social Work and Community Development

Development Studies

International and Comparative Education

Educational Policy and Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Sociocultural learning and work in the family -- The value of schooling -- Schools as sites of inclusion and marginalization -- Migration for education and social inequality -- Education and displacement at the Thai-Burma border -- Learning and integration in the UK.

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on the Karen people in Burma, Thailand and the United Kingdom, this book analyses how global, regional and local developments affect patterns of learning. It combines historical and ethnographic research to explore the mutual shaping of



intergenerational relations and children’s practical and formal learning within a context of migration and socio-political change. In this endeavour, Pia Jolliffe discusses traditional patterns of socio-cultural learning within Karen communities as well as the role of Christian missionaries in introducing schooling to the Karen in Burma and in Thailand. This is followed by an analysis of children’s migration for education in northern Thailand where state schools often encourage students’ aspirations towards upward social mobility at the same time as schools reproduce social inequality between the rural Karen and urban Thai society. The author draws attention to international humanitarian agencies who deliver education to refugees and migrants at the Thai-Burma border, as well as the role of UK government schools in the process of resettling Karen refugees. In this way, the book analyses the connections between learning, migration and intergenerational relations in households, schools and other institutions at the local, regional and global level.