Educational Challenges of Migrants’ Children at Home and School: Teachers, Learners and Caregivers’ Perspectives

Migrant children face formidable challenges at home and school as a result of absence of parents due to labour migration. The challenges directly and indirectly affect their schooling. Their life at home and school is different from that of non-migrant children. Migrants’ children are culturally dep...

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Main Author: Winniefridah Matsa
Other Authors: Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe
Format: book part
Language:English
Published: Springer, Cham 2023
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Online Access:https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5663
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60873-6_5
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description Migrant children face formidable challenges at home and school as a result of absence of parents due to labour migration. The challenges directly and indirectly affect their schooling. Their life at home and school is different from that of non-migrant children. Migrants’ children are culturally deprived and they experience various forms of economic, social and educational deprivation and marginalisation. Home challenges feed into school challenges making their life at home and school unbearable. Some of these educational challenges are not unique to migrants’ children in Zimbabwe as the chapter illuminates, but the context of marginalisation of Zimbabweans in Bulilima and Mangwe makes the experiences of migrants’ children complex and problematic. They are culturally disadvantaged and experience all types of deprivation ranging from economic, social, symbolic and institutionalised cultural capital. At home, they lack educational support and at school face ill-treatment by teachers who act favourably towards children of non-migrant parents. Migrants’ children are between a rock and a hard surface though they have developed their funds of knowledge that help them adapt to the challenging situations.
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spelling ir-11408-56632023-05-22T07:41:36Z Educational Challenges of Migrants’ Children at Home and School: Teachers, Learners and Caregivers’ Perspectives Winniefridah Matsa Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe Cultural capital Cultural deprivation Funds of knowledge Symbolic capital Institutionalised capital Non-migrants Migrant children face formidable challenges at home and school as a result of absence of parents due to labour migration. The challenges directly and indirectly affect their schooling. Their life at home and school is different from that of non-migrant children. Migrants’ children are culturally deprived and they experience various forms of economic, social and educational deprivation and marginalisation. Home challenges feed into school challenges making their life at home and school unbearable. Some of these educational challenges are not unique to migrants’ children in Zimbabwe as the chapter illuminates, but the context of marginalisation of Zimbabweans in Bulilima and Mangwe makes the experiences of migrants’ children complex and problematic. They are culturally disadvantaged and experience all types of deprivation ranging from economic, social, symbolic and institutionalised cultural capital. At home, they lack educational support and at school face ill-treatment by teachers who act favourably towards children of non-migrant parents. Migrants’ children are between a rock and a hard surface though they have developed their funds of knowledge that help them adapt to the challenging situations. 45 57 2023-05-22T07:41:35Z 2023-05-22T07:41:35Z 2020-12-22 book part https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5663 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60873-6_5 en Marginality, Migration and Education: Educational Experiences of Migrants’ Children in Zimbabwe 978-3-030-60873-6 open Springer, Cham
spellingShingle Cultural capital
Cultural deprivation
Funds of knowledge
Symbolic capital
Institutionalised capital
Non-migrants
Winniefridah Matsa
Educational Challenges of Migrants’ Children at Home and School: Teachers, Learners and Caregivers’ Perspectives
title Educational Challenges of Migrants’ Children at Home and School: Teachers, Learners and Caregivers’ Perspectives
title_full Educational Challenges of Migrants’ Children at Home and School: Teachers, Learners and Caregivers’ Perspectives
title_fullStr Educational Challenges of Migrants’ Children at Home and School: Teachers, Learners and Caregivers’ Perspectives
title_full_unstemmed Educational Challenges of Migrants’ Children at Home and School: Teachers, Learners and Caregivers’ Perspectives
title_short Educational Challenges of Migrants’ Children at Home and School: Teachers, Learners and Caregivers’ Perspectives
title_sort educational challenges of migrants’ children at home and school: teachers, learners and caregivers’ perspectives
topic Cultural capital
Cultural deprivation
Funds of knowledge
Symbolic capital
Institutionalised capital
Non-migrants
url https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5663
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60873-6_5
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