Publications

 Kagan, M. (Forthcoming) Schooling experiences of refugee children in Uganda:  Rethinking integration Policies. Education & Migration Series, Routledge Press.

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

Kagan, M., B. Herman, M. Aurec. (Forthcoming) The Real History”: Teaching the 1971 Liberation War in Bangladesh. Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society.

Kagan, M. & Camilla Fabbri. (Forthcoming) What evidence-based interventions contribute to violence reduction and improve safety in schools in conflict and protracted crisis settings? Education and Conflict Review.

Kagan, M.  (Forthcoming). Refugee-led education in transition and virtual “homemaking”.  Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry.

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 piece(s):

Opinion | The Right of Children in Israel to go to School is Beyond Right and Left by Manya, Israel (2019)