Migration and Education in a Multicultural World: Culture, Loss, and Identity

Kelly, U.

Arising from the legacies of the twentieth century - unprecedented worldwide migration, unrelenting global conflict and warring, unchecked materialist consumption, and unconscionable environmental degradation - are important questions about the toll of loss such changes exact, individually and collectively. As large-scale and ubiquitous as these changes are, their deep specificity re-inscribes the importance of place as a critical construct. Attending to such specificity emphasizes the interconnections between contexts and broader movements and remains a prudent route to articulating critical interconnections among places and peoples in complex times. This book of essays turns to such specificity as a means to examine the inflections of migration on identity- displacement, disorientation, loss, and difference- as sites of both regression and possibility. Fusing autobiography and cultural analysis, it provides a framework for a critical education attuned to such concerns.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2009-05-08

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349377497

DOI: 10.1057/9780230619098

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 190