The current education of migrant children report: an analysis study

This study analyzes academic studies published between May 2013 and June 2023 that mainly examined the education of migrant children. The study group consists of 97 different types of academic studies. Using content analysis, general trends in academic publications regarding the education of migrant children were examined. The results show that the most focused subject in current studies is about examining the educational, social, and health-related issues faced by migrant children (31.96%). 75.26% of the academic studies had been configured as qualitative, whereas the least minority of them had been written by choosing mixed research approaches (7.22%). 45.36% of the academic studies used mixed groups as study participants, and 26.8% of them gathered data from different types of documents. In contrast, migrant families (6.19%), children of migrant workers (1.03%), and various people in different societies (1.03%) were some of the least examined study participants. The most preferred data collection methods were document reviews (26.8%) and interviews (11.34%). Most academic studies analyzed their data through qualitative document analysis (21.65%), and qualitative thematic analysis (18.56%). This study recommends that academic publications regarding the education of migrant children should provide a variety in the topics examined. Besides, future studies should consider providing diversity in study groups through college students, migrant communities, and children of migrant families from different socio-economic backgrounds.