Book Review: Schooling for Refugee Children: A Social Justice Perspective Informed by Children from Syria by Eleanore Hargreaves, Brian Lally, Bassel Akar, Jumana Al-Waeli, and Jasmine Costello

Abstract

Elisheva Cohen reviews Schooling for Refugee Children: A Social Justice Perspective Informed by Children from Syria by Eleanore Hargraves, Brian Lally, Bassel Akar, Jumana Al-Waeli, and Jasmine Costello. Cohen provides a comprehensive overview of the book’s main contributions to the literature on refugee children’s access to social justice, with a particular focus on Syrian refugee children in Lebanon and the UK. She highlights how the use of participatory research activities in the book’s three case studies contributes methodologically to the fields of EiE and refugee education. While praising the meaningful insights the authors offer into the educational experiences of Syrian children, Cohen also mentions the lack of policy recommendations that address the structural barriers and systemic exclusions that make nonformal education programs necessary in the first place.