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Sites of Refuge: Refugees, Religiosity, and Public Schools in the United States

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العنوان: Sites of Refuge: Refugees, Religiosity, and Public Schools in the United States
اللغة: English
المؤلفون: Collet, Bruce A.
المصدر: Educational Policy. 2010 24(1):189-215.
الإتاحة: SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: http://sagepub.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 27
تاريخ النشر: 2010
نوع الوثيقة: Journal Articles
Reports - Evaluative
Descriptors: Social Integration, Ethnicity, Public Schools, Religion, Beliefs, Refugees, Immigrants, Identification (Psychology), Guidelines, Freedom, Personal Autonomy, State Church Separation, Political Attitudes
مصطلحات جغرافية: United States
DOI: 10.1177/0895904809354726
تدمد: 0895-9048
مستخلص: In this article the author examines public schools in the United States as sites where immigrants and refugees express their religious identities as part of their integration processes. In particular, the author examines the schools as "sites of refuge" for refugee students. Although public schools provide refugees with opportunity for study without regard to race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion (areas of potential persecution under the 1951 UN Convention Regarding the Status of Refugees), owing to their liberal and secular nature they necessarily put constraints on the degree to which students may exercise their particularistic cultural identities. Religion is an area in which such constraints are often most apparent. The article analyzes Will Kymlicka's theory of polyethnic group rights as a possible framework for both understanding migrant ethnic cultures and integration processes generally, as well as a defense for providing accommodations for the religious identities and religious expressions of immigrant and refugee students. With conditions, the author believes that, by guaranteeing the right to refugee students' societal culture, polyethnic rights comprise a viable framework for supporting immigrants and refugees in their integration into the United States. However, the framework works only to the degree that it is consistent with and advances liberal ends, including student autonomy and freedom. (Contains 8 notes.)
Abstractor: As Provided
Number of References: 51
Entry Date: 2010
رقم الأكسشن: EJ879141
قاعدة البيانات: ERIC
الوصف
تدمد:0895-9048
DOI:10.1177/0895904809354726