Resource Book Review: Meaningless Citizenship: Iraqi Refugees and the Welfare State by Sally Wesley Bonet In her review of Meaningless Citizenship, Samaya Mansour describes how Sally Wesley Bonet weaves the themes of refugee resettlement, citizenship, belonging, and state resettlement policies into her narrative on the education and workforce journeys of four Iraqi families resettling in the US
Resource Book Review: Becoming Rwandan: Education, Reconciliation, and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen by S. Garnett Russell Orelia Jonathan reminds JEiE readers of the complex relationship between education and peacebuilding as she reflects on S. Garnett Russell’s investigation in Becoming Rwandan of the Rwandan government’s efforts to create a cohesive national identity after the 1994 genocide.
Resource Book Review: Teaching Peace and Conflict: The Multiple Roles of School Textbooks in Peacebuilding edited by Catherine Vanner, Spogmai Akseer, and Thursica Kovinthan Levi In her review of Teaching Peace and Conflict, Myuri Komagiri engages with Vanner, Akseer, and Kovinthan Levi’s Intersecting Roles of Education in Conflict framework. Komaragiri stresses the need to prioritize the education-as-transformer role for education to contribute effectively to peacebuilding.
Resource Book Review: Youth-Led Social Movements and Peacebuilding in Africa edited by Ibrahim Bangura In her review of Youth-Led Social Movements and Peacebuilding in Africa, Deanna Pittman extends volume editor Ibrahim Bangura’s call to action to EiE audiences: resist the suppression of youth voices and give young activists a platform to be agents of social, economic, and political change.
Resource Impact of Catch-up Clubs in Conflict-Affected Myanmar: A Community-Led Remedial Learning Model Silvia Mila Arlini et al. describe the impact of a remedial education program designed to raise the literacy levels and SEL skills of students ages 8 to 13 and support their aspirations to stay in school after the COVID-19-related closures in two conflict-affected states in Myanmar.
Resource Left Further Behind after the COVID-19 School Closures: Survey Evidence on Rohingya Refugees and Host Communities in Bangladesh Gudrun Østby et al. assess the differential effects COVID-19-related school closures had for refugee and host community boys and girls in Bangladesh. They find that the closures were especially detrimental to teenage refugee girls’ ability to resume their schooling after the pandemic.
Resource Addressing Adolescence: Advocating for Age- and Gender-Responsive Social and Emotional Learning during Emergencies In their systematic review of SEL interventions in EiE contexts, Rena Deitz and Heddy Lahmann argue that studies that disaggregate intervention outcomes by age and gender provide the best guidance for tailoring interventions to the beneficiaries’ particular developmental and social realities.
Resource Hoping against the Odds: Understanding Refugee Youths’ Aspirations for Gaining Overseas Scholarships Hassan Aden draws from semistructured interviews and goal-mapping exercises to explore the cultural logics of hope, hard work, and success among refugee youths living in Dadaab as they pursue scholarships that will support their higher education aspirations and enable them to resettle abroad.
Resource Bangkit Semangat—Raise the Spirits: Teachers’ Vulnerability, Resilience, and Voice in Postdisaster Indonesia Drawing from ethnographic research on teachers in post-earthquake Indonesia, Christopher Henderson relates how global-level actors often miss the opportunity to engage meaningfully with teachers’ agency, self-concept, and resilience in humanitarian response guidance and policymaking.
Resource Field Note: Voices of Refugee Youth: Reflections on a Participatory, Youth-Centered Study Katrina Barnes et al. offer lessons from a participatory research initiative conducted with refugees in Rwanda and Pakistan, including how to navigate youth researchers’ positionality, training, and remuneration, and how to accommodate participants’ varying levels of research skills.