Refugee High
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"Refugee High," scheduled to be released in 2021, brings a unique, humane perspective to the under-examined circumstances facing refugee and immigrant teenagers in America. This story follows the dramatic and emotional journeys of four teens—from the Congo, Myanmar, Iraq, and Guatemala—and the teachers and administrators who guide and support them. The book offers an intimate, immersive, and touching account of the lives of the newest Americans.
I've set up this fundraiser to help me handle some final and necessary expenses. These include paying two fact-checkers, offering compensation to sensitivity readers, and to begin marketing the book. I would be so thankful for your support—in any amount—in these last stages.
More on "Refugee High" from The New Press Catalogue
For a century, the Roger C. Sullivan High School in Chicago has been an engine of education and assimilation for immigrants. In the wake of the election of the Trump administration, Sullivan’s immigrant and refugee student population swelled to four hundred (or 50 percent of the school), with students from thirty-eight different countries speaking thirty-five different languages.
Refugee High is a riveting, high-stakes chronicle of the 2017–8 school year at Sullivan High. As we follow teachers and administrators grappling with the everyday challenges facing many urban schools, we witness the complicated circumstances and unique educational needs of refugee and immigrant children: A Guatemalan boy may be deported just days before he is scheduled to graduate; a Burmese sophomore narrowly escapes an arranged marriage; and a Congolese freshman is shot in the beginning of this school year. Through it all, they are teens navigating life in America.
Elly Fishman, an award-winning investigative journalist, raises vital questions about what the priorities and values of a public school like Sullivan should be, what these schools need to properly serve large immigrant and refugee student populations, and what role schools and teachers can and should play in helping immigrant and refugee children adjust and—more controversially—assimilate to America. Refugee High is a vital window into the present-day American immigration and education systems.
Thank you for your attention & support. I look forward to sharing the book with you next year!
"Refugee High," scheduled to be released in 2021, brings a unique, humane perspective to the under-examined circumstances facing refugee and immigrant teenagers in America. This story follows the dramatic and emotional journeys of four teens—from the Congo, Myanmar, Iraq, and Guatemala—and the teachers and administrators who guide and support them. The book offers an intimate, immersive, and touching account of the lives of the newest Americans.
I've set up this fundraiser to help me handle some final and necessary expenses. These include paying two fact-checkers, offering compensation to sensitivity readers, and to begin marketing the book. I would be so thankful for your support—in any amount—in these last stages.
More on "Refugee High" from The New Press Catalogue
For a century, the Roger C. Sullivan High School in Chicago has been an engine of education and assimilation for immigrants. In the wake of the election of the Trump administration, Sullivan’s immigrant and refugee student population swelled to four hundred (or 50 percent of the school), with students from thirty-eight different countries speaking thirty-five different languages.
Refugee High is a riveting, high-stakes chronicle of the 2017–8 school year at Sullivan High. As we follow teachers and administrators grappling with the everyday challenges facing many urban schools, we witness the complicated circumstances and unique educational needs of refugee and immigrant children: A Guatemalan boy may be deported just days before he is scheduled to graduate; a Burmese sophomore narrowly escapes an arranged marriage; and a Congolese freshman is shot in the beginning of this school year. Through it all, they are teens navigating life in America.
Elly Fishman, an award-winning investigative journalist, raises vital questions about what the priorities and values of a public school like Sullivan should be, what these schools need to properly serve large immigrant and refugee student populations, and what role schools and teachers can and should play in helping immigrant and refugee children adjust and—more controversially—assimilate to America. Refugee High is a vital window into the present-day American immigration and education systems.
Thank you for your attention & support. I look forward to sharing the book with you next year!
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Elly Fishman
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Milwaukee, WI