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dc.contributor.authorMitchell, Lindaen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorKamenarac, Oliveraen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-23T21:41:07Z
dc.date.available2021-09-23T21:41:07Z
dc.date.issued2021en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationMitchell, L., & Kamenarac, O. (2021). Refugee children and families’ positioning within resettlement and early childhood education policies in Aotearoa New Zealand. Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1177083x.2021.1970584en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/14568
dc.description.abstractThis paper uses a framing derived from refugee and child rights conventions to analyse the positioning of young refugee children and their families in Aotearoa New Zealand’s resettlement policies, early childhood curriculum and early childhood education (ECE) funding policies. It also analyses data from interviews with participants from ECE settings who are working with refugee children and families, to discuss how policy is experienced in ECE practice, and makes recommendations about future policy directions. Main findings are that the Refugee Resettlement Strategy has critically important goals for refugee resettlement, but outcomes are narrowly defined and future-focused. While the ECE curriculum, Te Whariki, offers a strong basis for refugee families and children to come to belong and participate in Aotearoa New Zealand, and to have their own culture upheld, the rights of the young refugee child have no visibility within resettlement and ECE funding policies. We argue that a rights-based framework, focused on the young refugee child within their wider family, offers a productive lens through which to analyse refugee resettlement and ECE policies.
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dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherInforma UK Limiteden_NZ
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/1177083X.2021.1970584
dc.rights© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
dc.titleRefugee children and families’ positioning within resettlement and early childhood education policies in Aotearoa New Zealanden_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/1177083x.2021.1970584en_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfKōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Onlineen_NZ
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pubs.elements-id264703
pubs.end-page18
pubs.publication-statusPublished onlineen_NZ
dc.identifier.eissn1177-083Xen_NZ


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