Table of Contents

Series preface
Editor's preface
Acknowledgements
Glossary

PART ONE: SETTING THE SCENE

1.An Introduction
2.Who are refugee children?
3.Theoretical and research perspectives on refugee children

PART TWO: UK RESPONSES TO REFUGEE CHILDREN

4.Learning from history: responses to refugees 1900-89
5.Modern asylum policy and its impact on children
6.How UK children view the refugee in their midst
7.National educational policy and the role of local authorities
8.School practices

PART THREE: COMMUNITY CASE STUDIES

9.The elusiveness of intergration: the educational experiences of Congolese refugee children
10.The Somalis: cultures of survival
11. Sucess stories: the southern Sudanese

PART FOUR: NEW VISIONS FOR REFUGEE CHILDREN

12. New visions for refugee children

Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Jill Rutter lectures in education at London Metropolitan University. She is a former teacher who was the Education Adviser at the Refugee Council from 1988-2001.