The Educational Experiences of Refugee Children in Countries of First Asylum /

The existing literature on the education of refugee children in the United States focuses primarily on postarrival experiences, with little attention to educational experiences in the children’s countries of origin and first asylum. [...] The histories that resettled 2 The Educational Experiences of Refugee Children in Countries of First Asylum MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE refugee children bring to classrooms in the United States are multiple and varied. [...] The existing literature on the education of refugee children in the United States focuses primarily on postarrival experiences, with little attention to the educational experiences of these children in their countries of origin and first asylum.1 The author’s analysis draws on more than a decade of in-depth research conducted on refugee education in countries of first asylum prior to arrival in th [...] The Educational Experiences of Refugee Children in Countries of First Asylum 3 MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE resettled in developed countries such as the United States: in 2013, 86 percent of refugees globally were hosted by developing countries.4 Refugee children in developing countries are some of the most educa- tionally marginalized in the world. [...] It is important to note that the first-asylum countries and the countries of origin included in the study represent most of the largest sources of refugee children in the world.