The present is local, the future is global?

Full Title: 'The Present is Local, the Future is Global? Reconciling Current and Future Livelihood Strategies in the Education of Congolese Refugees in Uganda.' Refugees often see education of their children as the principal way of ensuring a better future for their family. In this way, pursuing education is a forward-looking livelihood strategy for both children and their parents. Just as importantly, education often plays a role in creating stability in the daily lives of displaced children. The double priority of current and future livelihoods, however, are in tension for fourteen-year old Bakari who fled the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2000 and has since lived and gone to school in Kyaka II refugee settlement in Uganda.