220 pages
244 x 170mm
ISBN-13: 978 1 85856 375 6
Due March 2009

The number of international migrants has increased markedly since 1989. This diverse group includes refugees, labour migrants and people arriving in the UK to join family or to study. Many families have complex economic and political reasons for migration.

Migrant children, including refugees, need educational support that is flexible and takes into account the variety of past experiences. Yet in many parts of the UK, immigration status is used to determine what provision children get, as well as how their teachers view them.

Based on new research, Worlds on the Move looks at the responses of schools and child welfare agencies to the changing migration patterns. It explores the asylum-migration nexus, transnational families, community solidarity and the debates about pupil mobility in the UK, and presents new material about the hidden community of West Africans, and about economic migrants from Portugal and Poland.
The book is written for teachers, policy makers and academics.

For 14 years the Education Officer at the Refugee Council, Jill Rutter is senior research fellow in migration and equalities at the Institute of Public Policy Research, London. She is the author of Supporting Refugee Children in 21st Century Britain, published by Trentham.