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Black bodies, White rural spaces: Disturbing practices of unbelonging for 'refugee' students

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posted on 2023-05-18, 05:21 authored by Edgeworth, K
In global times, when the forced migration of refugees from war-torn countries like Sudan impacts the demography of once ethnically homogenous schooling spaces, I consider the need to better understand the geographical making of racism. This article explores the lived experience of two newly arrived Sudanese students studying at a rural high school in Australia. Using Foucaultian theory, and Foucault’s theories as they have been taken up by Judith Butler, I explore the production of educational exclusions at a rural school. I investigate the Sudanese students’ struggle for belonging against particular discourses of rural Whiteness. In the students’ rural schooling space, their Black bodies are highly visible and are discursively cast as ‘out of place’. I examine the way discourses of rural Whiteness produce schooling exclusions that implicate schools in the spatial regulation of unbelonging.

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Publication title

Critical Studies in Education

Volume

56

Pagination

351-365

ISSN

1750-8487

Department/School

Faculty of Education

Publisher

Routledge

Place of publication

Australia

Rights statement

Copyright 2014 Taylor & Francis

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Equity and access to education

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