Migration, Education and the Construction of Global Imaginaries
How schools that cater for privileged migrants differ from those attended by less-privileged ones.
Presenter: Dr Heather Meyer, Associate Professor & Director of Studies at Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL), University of Warwick.
This presentation aims to address the role of education in shaping social imagination and mobilities for internationally mobile youth, drawing on a case study from my ethnographic research at an international school.
It explores the international school system as a space that facilitates privileged migration and the development of ‘global citizens’, often at the expense of isolationism and lack of local mobility in the host country for their communities of expats. We will introduce the notion of ‘global’ and ‘local’ imaginaries as a conceptual tool to examine school orientation and the impact this has on accessibility, safety and physical, social and cognitive mobilities.
This online lecture forms part of the Dialogue in Migration and Refugee Studies Lecture and Seminar Series, funded by the Jean Monnet grant. The series runs every 2 weeks, with online lectures from experts in different disciplines.