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Education for migrant refugee youth in the borderlands: Developing comparative and

international education between states

Allyson Krupar, M.A.Esther Prins, Ph.D.

he Pennsylvania !tate "niversity

Abstract

"sing conceptions of transnationalism to #re$evaluate the field of comparative andinternational education #%&E$, this chapter analy'es educational programming and policy

for migrant refugee youth at the margins and borderlands of the nation(state system.

Drawing from newspaper articles about displaced youth on Kenya)s eastern border and

the southwestern ".!. border, this chapter focuses on comparative and internationaleducation)s potential influence on programming and policies in borderland regions. *oth

populations present the need for targeted educational programming within and outside of

formal education systems and urgency for research lin+ed with practice. e argue that

%&E scholars can fill a critical, activist purpose to draw attention to educational accessand curricular content in educational pro-ects at the borders of the nation(state system, to

investigate programming, and to wor+ with practitioners and policy ma+ers to address theneeds of youth on the physical and figurative margins of education.

Keywords: borderlands, comparative and international education, immigration, Kenya,migrant refugees, refugee education, unaccompanied minors, ".!.A., youth

orthcoming inAnnual Review of Comparative and International Education/012.

iseman, A. 3 E. Anderson, Eds.