Dr Manya Oriel KaganPostdoctoral research fellow, University of Pennsylvania, United StatesEmail: manyaor@upenn.eduProfilePublicationsExpertiseProfileI am a sociologist of education, currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania. My research focuses primarily on refugee and migrant children education and rights, particularly in urban contexts. I earned my Ph.D. at the School of Education at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, Israel which focused on schooling of urban refugee children in Uganda. I have a background in comparative religions, international development, and a teaching diploma in arts. I have also worked, volunteered with, and studied refugee children’ access and support to education in Israel coming from Eritrea, Sudan, and Ukraine in Israel, Afro-Caribbean migrants in the US, and Ukrainian refugees in Poland. I have also conducted studies on education and development in East Africa, primarily in Uganda, Kenya, and Burundi, focusing on teacher training, low-fee private schools, alternative schools and migration and development policies. IResearchPublications Kagan, M. and N. Shanee (2024). The uncounted and invisible challenges of refugee foster families in Kampala, Uganda. Adoption and Fostering 48(3). Kagan, M. and Winnie Nakattude (2024). I don’t meet Somali girls because they’re not supposed to go out”: Intersectional barriers facing Somali urban refugee girls in Uganda. Girlhood Studies 17(1). https://doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2024.170108 Kagan M. “Redefining integration: what can we learn from the educational experiences of refugee children in the Global South?” (2022). NEOS (Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group of the AAA) 14(1). https://acyig.americananthro.org/neosvol14iss1sp22/ Kagan, M., Pinson, H., Schler, L. (2022). No policies and no politics: Israeli teachers, asylum seeker pupils and remobilized strategies of avoidance and depoliticization. Race, Ethnicity and Education 25(1): 73-91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2019.1599346 Kagan, M. and Y. N. Gez (2021): “We are everywhere”: International and local aspirations at Bridge International Academies in Kenya. Critique of Anthropology 41(4): 389-404. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X211059661" ExpertiseRefugee education, South-to-South migration, urban refugees, child rights, African youth, migration policy and education.