Empowering Subaltern Voices Through Education

The Chakma Diaspora in Australia
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-35452-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 307 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Asian Diasporas, Migrations and Mobilities

Based on a four-year-long empirical study, this book employs contemporary theories from the Global South to investigate the role of education in the experience of migration and settlement of the Chakma people of Bangladesh in the city of Melbourne, Australia.

Exploring the migration opportunities taken up by the Chakma and their efforts to retain, promote, and enrich their ethnic identity in Australia, the book critically examines the importance of education for ethnic, linguistic, and religious minorities and the extent to which education helped the diasporic community in achieving a ‘better’ and ‘more secure’ life. It also positions education as a tool to help revive, maintain, and enrich the importance of culture and tradition, both in the home country and in the place of settlement and offers a theorisation of how the self-directed pursuit of education can create opportunities for minority peoples, to advocate human rights, Indigenous recognition and criticise a state’s failure to provide safety and security.

This book will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students researching in the fields of education, diaspora studies, Indigenous studies, and migration studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chakma, Urmee

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Overview: Contextualising the Study 1. History of the Chakma and the Chittagong Hill Tracts 2. Chakma and Education: A Critical Chronology of Socio-politics Part II: Theorising Minority Identities 3. The Politics of Indigeneity, Othering, and Belongingness 4. Chakma and Migration for and Through Education 5. Theoretical Understandings of the Chakmas Diasporic Journeys Part III: Empirically Situating the Study 6. Roles of Education in Upward Mobility, Security, and Advocacy 7. Enrichment, Not Assimilation: Preserving Culture in Diaspora 8. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Urmee Chakma works as a lecturer of humanities and pedagogy in the School of Education at La Trobe University, Australia. She earned her PhD from the Faculty of Education, Monash University and worked as a teaching and research associate at Monash from 2018 to 2022. She has been an educator for over 15 years. Her areas of research interest include Indigenous education, diasporic communities, citizenship studies, and social justice.