Exploring the Narratives and Agency of Children with Migrant Backgrounds within Schools. Researching Hybrid Integration

This edited volume presents the results of a European research project – ‘CHILD-UP’
(Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as a way of Upgrading Policies
of Participation), which analyses the hybrid integration of children with migration
backgrounds into schools across Europe.
Using qualitative data and theoretical foundations obtained through interviews
and focus groups, the book ultimately centres the perspectives and experiences of
both the children and the professionals working with them. In doing so, it explores
the complex position migrant children occupy in host societies, their exercise of
agency, challenges and inspirational local practices that support hybrid integration
and innovative educational planning. It also analyses the facilitation of conversations
concerning children’s personal experiences and social relations, second language
learning and language mediation, based on video- and audio-recordings of
school activities.
The book will be of relevance to researchers, academics, scholars, and faculty in
the fields of sociology of education, child development, migration and multicultural
studies.