The Secret War Crime, Women in War, The Faults of Oklahoma, Nancy Reagan, 1921-2016, China’s economic slowdown explained, Ian Bremmer on Turkey’s isolation, Europe closes its borders to refugees, Education’s math problem, How to take the perfect nap, The rise of Hong Kong’s independence movement and more…

Being a Refugee: Learning and Identity: A longitudinal study of refugees in the UK

Being a Refugee offers a picture of the lives of refugees before and after they arrive in the UK. The people featured are all highly qualified professionals and, like all refugees, their personal stories are shaped by their unique biographical, cultural and social backgrounds.

Yet each narrative is lived within the broad social template of what it means to be a refugee in contemporary Britain. And their experiences as refugees have significant implications for policy and practice.

This book is about the teaching of English to migrants and refugees. It is written from the perspective of those who work with and teach this diverse group of adults and children. Migrants and refugees come from very different geographical areas and have left their home countries for very different reasons.  They will have had very different experiences of education. In this book we are concerned with English language teaching in a country in which English is the dominant language of a substantial, often monolingual, majority and learners need English to communicate in their daily life.