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Author Bio

Karen Paul is a South Asian Indian marriage and family therapist focused on trauma-informed, culturally responsive care. She also serves as a faculty member in the M.A. Counseling Psychology program at the University of San Francisco. Her clinical work centers BIPOC women, with particular attention to intergenerational trauma and mental health within diasporic communities. Her scholarship examines the psychosocial impacts of migration, memory, and identity, drawing on decolonial, critical feminist, and narrative frameworks. Her dissertation employs collective autoethnography and genealogical inquiry to explore how patriarchal authority, Christian schooling, and colonial logics shape silence, erasure, and belonging across generations within South Asian diasporic contexts. Across her clinical, teaching, and research work, she is committed to narrative repair, relational healing, and the reclamation of erased histories

Abstract

In Critical Perspectives on Refugee and Migrant Integration in Education: Grassroots Narratives from Multiregional Settings, edited by Marcus Otto and Tania Saeed (2025), integration is not treated as a neutral educational goal but as a contested, politically loaded term shaped by displacement, migration, and social division. Developed within the Peace and Human Rights Education series, through the Georg Arnhold Program, the volume brings scholars and practitioners into dialogue. The contributors include university-based researchers, educator-scholars, and practice-based professionals working in education and related fields. Together, they explore how education operates simultaneously as a space of possibility and exclusion. Rather than offering a prescriptive model, the book asks what integration conceals, whom it serves, and what alternatives might look like.

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