Publications
Kagan, M. (August 2026) Schooling experiences of refugee children in Uganda: Rethinking integration Policies. Education & Migration Series, Routledge Press.
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
Kagan, M.& H. Pinson. (Forthcoming) School Choice in Uncertainty: Temporariness and Liminality of Ukrainian Refugee Mothers. Educational Review.
Kagan, M. (Forthcoming). Refugee-led education in transition and virtual “homemaking”. Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry.
Kagan, M., B. Herman, M. Aurec. (2026) The Real History”: Teaching the 1971 Liberation War in Bangladesh. Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society. 17(1). https://doi.org/10.3167/jemms.2025.170103.
Kagan, M. (2025) Collective Responsibility: Cultivating Inclusive Classrooms for Refugee Children through Ubuntu-inspired pedagogy. International Journal of Inclusive Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2025.2589289
Su, Y, V. Bruni, P. Azari, S. Batista, M. Boateng, V. Bolletino, T. Canas, M. Kagan et al. (2025) Imagining alternative migration futures for the Pacific Island States. Forced Migration Review 76(15). https://www.fmreview.org/climate-choices/bruni-su/
Kagan, M. & C. Fabbri (2026) What evidence-based interventions contribute to violence reduction and improve safety in schools in conflict and protracted crisis settings? Education and Conflict Review.
Yonatan N. Gez, C. Médard, E. Kamaara, E. Masese, C. Bertin, N. Chimhete, B. Eichhorn, M. Fouéré, H. Githogori, I. Huotari, R. Jerobon, A. Kauppinen, M. Kagan, M. Kosgei, L. Kroeker, K. Kuenberg, A. Matusse, M. Mugambi, L. Mule, G. Mutalemwa, F. Ngure, O. Nipassa, S. Owiwa, S. Nyagaya, M. Ramos, E. Schubinger, A. Umulkher, E. Wahome (2025). Traces of Bilateralism: Collaborative Research on the Afterlives of a Finnish-Kenyan Water Development Project. East African Review. https://doi.org/10.4000/14g4m
M. Kagan, H. Yaron, and A. Rothbard. (2025). Dangerous or Endangered: African-Israeli Children Presence in Urban Public Spaces, South Tel Aviv. 28(8) Citizenship Studies 28(8).https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2025.2480032
Kagan, M. (2025). Navigating Conflicting Integration Perspectives: Refugee Commodification and Vulnerability in Urban Primary Schools in Uganda. Citizenship Studies. Citizenship Studies. 28(8) https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2025.2480028
Kagan, M. and N. Shanee (2024). The uncounted and invisible challenges of refugee foster families in Kampala, Uganda. Adoption and Fostering 48(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/03085759241270364
Kagan, M. and Winnie Nakattude (2024). “I don’t meet Somali girls because they’re not supposed to go out”: Intersectional barriers facing Somali urban refugee girls in Uganda. Girlhood Studies 17(1).https://doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2024.170108
Kagan, M., Pinson, H., Schler, L. (2022). No policies and no politics: Israeli teachers, asylum seeker pupils and remobilized strategies of avoidance and depoliticization. Race, Ethnicity and Education 25(1): 73-91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2019.1599346
Kagan, M. Redefining integration: what can we learn from the educational experiences of refugee children in the Global South? (2022). NEOS 14(1). https://acyig.americananthro.org/neosvol14iss1sp22/
Kagan, M. and Y. N. Gez (2021): “We are everywhere”: International and local aspirations at Bridge International Academies in Kenya. Critique of Anthropology 41(4): 389-404. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X211059661
Book Chapters:
Kagan, M., E. Owino, E. Masese and J. Rey (2024) “Adopting and Adapting Waldorf Education: Returning to the roots through Waldorf education in Kenya”. In: Critically Assessing the Reputation of Waldorf Education in Academia and the Public: Recent Developments the World Over. Eds. Ann-Kathrin Hoffmann & Marc Fabian Buck. Routledge Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003437727
Kagan, M. and Wenske-Stern, R. (2019): “Work of educational NGOs in Africa from a critical perspective: the case of teacher training in Burundi”. In International Development in Africa: Between Theory and Practice, Eds. Gez Y. N., R. Barak and M. Kagan, Pardes Pub.; [in Hebrew]
Editorship of collective volumes and issues:
Kagan, M. and C. Cutright (Eds.) (2024): “Building Blocks of Knowledge: Investigating education, learning, and Knowing in Children and Youth”. NEOS Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group Publication. 16(1) https://acyig.americananthro.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/NEOS-Spring24-Kagan-Cutright.pdf
Gez, Y. N., Barak-Weekes, R., Kagan, M. (Eds.) (2019): International Development in Africa: Between Theory and Practice, “Now Africa” Series, Pardes Publications: Israel [in Hebrew] https://www.pardes.co.il/?id=showbook&catnum=978-1-61838-534-5
Media and policy briefs:
“Policy Brief: Violence Reduction and Safety in Schools in Conflict and Protracted Crisis Settings”. International Rescue Committee.
Input to the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Child trafficking and the rights of migrant, refugee, asylum-seeking and stateless children.
Input for the 62nd session of the Human Rights Council on curriculum, pedagogy and assessment for inclusion.
To feel like you belong in Kampala: lives of refugee children in East African metropolitan schools. Minerva Human Rights Center Blog [Hebrew]
Gez, Y., Häbel, J, … M. Kagan et al. (2025). Between Silence and Machinery: Re-imagining Moshi Through Sound and Story. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/2025/10/22/
Safety and insecurity of African Asylum-seeking children in South Tel Aviv: Resident Survey and Policy Recommendations. Tel Aviv Municipality Research Center.
Kagan, M. and Perry, S. (2016): “Mapping the Challenges of Children of the Asylum-seeking and Migrant Workers Communities in Jerusalem”. CIMI Report [in Hebrew].
Opinion | The Right of Children in Israel to go to School is Beyond Right and Left by Manya, Israel (2019)