The Asylum-seeking Child as Migrant: Government Strategies

The education of asylum-seeking children in the UK has been substantially influenced by the country’s immigration and asylum policy developed by the Home Office. The extensive state activity in the past two decades in the area of asylum and immigration has, in effect, co-opted other arms of the state (the educational system being one) into immigration enforcement (Cohen, 2002: 538). Changes in immigration policy have far-reaching effects on the lives, education and wellbeing of asylum-seeking children resident in the UK and also, as we shall show in later chapters, on the work of teachers and the ways in which schools and students engage with the issue of asylum emotionally, morally and politically. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.