Paper details

Paper authors	Nikolett Szelei
In panel on	Impacts of war and displacement on refugees’ educational trajectories
Paper presenter(s) will be presenting	In-Person / Online

Abstract

Nikolett Szelei & Ilse Derluyn
Today, European societies face the challenge of supporting the wellbeing and inclusion of refugee and migrant adolescents in schools. RefugeesWellSchool is an EU-funded project that developed and implemented five interventions in six European countries: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the UK. These interventions, anchored in social support and cohesion, aimed at promoting the psychosocial wellbeing of migrant and refugee youth in secondary school contexts. As part of the focus on establishing positive social relationships in schools, the project also aimed at understanding home-school collaborations and trust between teachers and migrant parents regarding migrant students’ wellbeing and education.
This presentation will give an overview on the RefugeesWellSchool project and will elaborate on some preliminary findings regarding 1) how teachers’ and migrant parents’ approach home-school collaborations, and 2) what role migration and displacement plays in trusting one another to support migrant students’ wellbeing and educational progress. This mixed-method study draws on baseline data collected from teachers and migrant parents through the trust survey (Adams & Christenson, 2000), as well as focus group and individual interviews. Based on the results, we discuss how migration and displacement impacts establishing trust between teachers and migrant parents, and recommend ways forward to foster home-school collaborations.

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