Growing Up in Diaspora - Education and Family of East African Refugees in Germany

This book centers on the life experiences of young East African refugees in Germany. Situated at the intersection of migration and transition research, it depicts an extensive picture of how young refugees cope with challenges related to educational and occupational participation. How do they maintain transnational familyhood amidst the institutionalized discrimination in the receiving society? The author portraits different ways of coping with transition imperatives, showing how young refugees shape their biographical trajectories with the sociocultural as well as biographical resources they have.

Miaojun She is a researcher at the Institute for Applied Family, Childhood and Youth Research, University of Potsdam, Germany.