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

Autor/in	Le, Hang M.
Titel	Language, Education, and Power in Refugee Camps: A Comparison of Kakuma Refugee Camp (Kenya) and Thai-Myanmar Refugee Camps
Quelle	In: Current Issues in Comparative Education, 23 (2021) 1, S.15-30 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1523-1615
Schlagwörter	Refugees; Emergency Shelters; Language of Instruction; Educational Policy; Comparative Education; Cross Cultural Studies; Language Usage; Political Influences; Power Structure; Decision Making; Foreign Countries; Cost Effectiveness; Futures (of Society); Efficiency; Civil Rights; Native Language; Second Language Learning; African Languages; Sino Tibetan Languages; Muslims; English (Second Language); Language Role; Thailand; Burma; Kenya + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Flüchtling; Notunterkunft; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Sprachgebrauch; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Ausland; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Future; Society; Zukunft; Effectiveness; Effektivität; Wirkungsgrad; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Muslim; Muslimin; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Kenia
Abstract	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 Thai-Myanmar border, this paper demonstrates how language policies are always deeply political in nature. In refugee contexts in particular, language policies in education reflect and reproduce existing power dynamics that can exclude refugees from decision-making processes about their own future. In Kakuma, language issues in education are decided by the international humanitarianism regime based on efficiency and cost-effectiveness over the linguistic rights of the refugee community. Even when refugees are in control in the Thai-Myanmar refugee camps, decisions over the language of instruction are still political choices that serve to exclude many people. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Teachers College, Columbia University. International and Transcultural Studies, P.O. Box 211, 525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027. e-mail: info@cicejournal.org; Web site: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/cice
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01