Policy & Practice - A Development Education Review

 

 

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Development Education Perspectives on Migration
Spring 2017

Guest Editorial: Refugee Crisis or Humanitarian Crisis?

Eoin Devereux

I warmly welcome the publication of this edition of Policy and Practice on the theme of ‘Development Education Perspectives on Migration’.  In the so-called ‘Post-Truth’ world of fake news, disinformation, misinformation, entrenched borders, xenophobia, Islamophobia, increased hate crime and racism fuelled by New Right populism, it is essential that we have a strong counter-narrative concerning migration led by experts in the field of development education which is balanced and evidence based.  While theorising about migration is a crucial aspect of what we do in an academic context, the development of models of good practice is, perhaps, even more important. 

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