The Impacts and Experiences of Migrant Children in UK Secondary Schools

This paper aims to illuminate this under-researched group by looking at their experiences of inclusion. By comparing two schools which exist in very different local communities and have very different school populations, it will suggest the effect these factors have on experiences of inclusion.

It will challenge the popular rhetoric that migrant children are 'swamping' UK schools and, drawing on ideas of 'super-diversity', it will argue that migrant children should be recognised as a specific group in schools rather than being subsumed under other labels.