The Impact of Global Migration on the Education of Young Children
Author(s): L. D. Adams
This short brief focuses on issues related to the effects of global migration on the education of the young migrants, apart from the circumstances of their migration and proposes specific policy development and implementation. The author explains how migration affects young children from many angles. Some children move with their family, some are left behind in the care of others when one or both parents migrate, some are sent to another nation along with a parent, while one parent remains employed in the home nation.
Different policies are examined and the role of parents considered. The author concludes that the pace of global migration is expected to continue in the foreseeable future, therefore providing children with services related to their education, health care and general well being must be a policy priority. The diversity of the newly arrived children and their families, the range of backgrounds from which they come and the many routes and reasons for migration call for general policies that will recognise the right to an education for all children.