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Representing Refugee Children: The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations and Their Volunteers as Liaisons of Refugee Interests in Local Schools

Hanna, Patricia L
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405082407

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2014, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, EDU Policy and Leadership.
Since the establishment of the Refugee Act of 1980, nearly 3 million individuals have re-located to the United States under refugee status, with school-aged children comprising approximately 35-40% of the overall annual influx of new refugees. As newcomers to the United States, refugees are not able to vote and have limited avenues of political representation in policy-making venues. As schools and their governance structures are the vanguard of democracy in the United States, a critical question emerges with respect to refugee children’s educational interests: who advocates for the educational needs of refugee children when refugee parents are precluded from doing so through formal governance structures? This study explored answers to this question by engaging ethnographic methodology to illuminate the ways in which Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and their volunteers who partner with local schools may function as liaisons of refugee interests, representing refugee children’s educational needs to school leaders as they coordinate services for refugee children.
Ann Allen (Advisor)
Antoinette Errante (Committee Member)
Scott Sweetland (Committee Member)
251 p.
Education; Education Policy; Educational Leadership; School Administration
educational leadership, educational policy, English Language Learners, refugees, democratic theory, political representation, schools, organizational leadership, organizational structure

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  • Hanna, P. L. (2014). Representing Refugee Children: The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations and Their Volunteers as Liaisons of Refugee Interests in Local Schools [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405082407

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hanna, Patricia. Representing Refugee Children: The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations and Their Volunteers as Liaisons of Refugee Interests in Local Schools. 2014. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405082407.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hanna, Patricia. "Representing Refugee Children: The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations and Their Volunteers as Liaisons of Refugee Interests in Local Schools." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405082407

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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