ABSTRACT
In this chapter I theorize education as a plane of radical hope drawing on a Leverhulme-funded research project on migrant and refugee women's narratives. The chapter focusses on the way all stories evolved around the power of education in sustaining and supporting women's hope for new beginnings in their life. Education is an agonistic area, a field where women have historically struggled to get access to, but the specificities of forced displacement have created new conditions that need to be charted and understood. In this context, I have mapped emerging spheres of action and agonistic politics in the arena of refugees' education, while interrogating and challenging modalities of what Ball has theorized as ‘academic philanthropy’ in the field.
