Challenges of Albanian Migrants - Integration of Migrant Children in Albanian Education System
Keywords:
integration, migrant, education, children, challengesAbstract
Migration has been at the center of academic and political debate in the recent years. Albanians are among the biggest flows of immigrants moving to Europe from the beginning of 1990s. Various crises in Europe have forced Albanian emigrants living and working abroad to return home due to difficulties in their residence countries. But their return is not as simple as it seems, because they would have to start over again from the beginning. The scope of this work is to offer a panorama on the situation of migration flow of Albanians and problems faced by migrants upon returning home in order to offer recommendations to make their integration easier. Does the integration system work for them? This research will also make evident the problems concerning integration of migrant children and address integration issues of their situation in Albanian schools, faced in particular during their enrolment in various education levels. Data from the Albanian Ministry of Education and Institute of Statistics, as well as information offered by IOM and other relevant international organization, will be used to make evident all the issues concerning the integration of migrants and their children. This work shall fill the gap of studies about migrant integration and integration of Albanian children after immigration of their parents.
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