Migdia
Research project Migration, transnational educational paths and diasporic plurilingualism investigates questions of education, democracy, and migration in Finland and Lebanon. Projects perspectives come from sociolinguistics, anthropology and world politics. Migration shapes societies in many ways, both in the Global South and in the Global North. The central question everywhere is how transnational educational paths are built in such a way that they offer individuals avenues for social participation, possible further education, and employment. Transnational educational paths also challenge us to think about whose voice is and should be heard when building such paths.
The research contexts ranges from Arabic mother tongue classrooms to the everyday life of immigration background families in Finland and Lebanon. The investigation focusses on everyday life and everyday plurilingualism, and the educational policies that shape them. These policies are examined both from the perspective of Finnish education policy and by analysing the ideological boundary making of organizations working on refugee education in Lebanon from the perspective of world politics and global governance. Learn more.
