ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the school experiences of refugee students living in Australia and in Sweden by way of making a comparative analysis, buttressed by the author’s previous analysis of conditions for refugees in Lebanon during her study in that country in 2017/18. The present-day situation regarding the refugee crisis that became a globally serious one, and the politics surrounding it and how refugee children should be cared for and educated, has exceeded any initial forcible displacement caused by war. The newly arrived refugees found the curriculum extremely difficult to master since the Ministry of Education insisted that the official teaching programme using the foreign language remains the same for all. A large number of refugee children struggled with picking up a language and had been placed in classes that were for younger children; for example, some Year 9 students were put in Year 5 classrooms.
