Language, education, and power in refugee camps: A comparison of Kakuma Refugee Camp (Kenya) and Thai-Myanmar refugee camps

While there is growing attention to language as a central issue in education for refugees, this policy area still appears be dominated by an apolitical, technical, and instrumentalist perspective. Through comparison of language-in-education policies two refugee camp contexts, Kakuma Refugee Camp Kenya the camps along Thai-Myanmar border, paper demonstrates how are always deeply political nature. In contexts particular, reflect reproduce existing power dynamics that can exclude refugees from decisionmaking processes about their own future. Kakuma, issues decided international humanitarianism regime based on efficiency costeffectiveness over linguistic rights community. Even when control camps, decisions instruction choices serve many people.