Dr. Mania Kogan: The educational needs of children of refugees and asylum seekers.
Discussant: Prof. Halleli Pinson, School of Education.
We addressed the association between education, children's rights, and immigration and . asked how educational systems deal with immigrant children that have immigrated or became refugees and how do these children and their families adjust to the educational system in their host country. Based on a test case of elementary schools for refugee children in Uganda, global and local perspectives the educational rights of refugee children were discussed.
Prof. Ilana Rosen: Israeli documentary poetry by immigrants and children of
immigrants on coming of age in the early statehood period
Discussant: Dr. Julia Lerner, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
The presentation featured and discussed a selection of Hebrew poems by Israeli poets who have been immigrants or children of immigrants and who depict in their poems their immigration experiences. The focus was on poems that described the experiences such as wandering or residing in transition camps, encounters with other immigrants and with Israeli schools at that time. Among others, the following poets were discussed: Hertzl Hakak, Lidia Bar-Av, Zvika Shternfeld, Yaara Bar-David, and others.
Dr. Lina Lifshitz-Rozin: The experiences of social workers in culturally matched therapeutic dyads.
Discussant: Dr. Galia Plotkin Amrami, School of Education
The presentation addressed the effects of cultural matching between therapists and patients and the specific case of therapists and patients who are both immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel. Presented were therapists' reactions in this setting: their countertransference and the motion between closeness and distancing from their patients.
