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Acknowledgments I would like to thank Education International for the opportunity to write this article, and for their kind support throughout the entire research process. Their engagement, thoroughness and feedback have substantially enhanced the quality of this article. Also, many thanks to the Swedish Teacher Union (LärarfÜrbundet) for providing me with information about their work with newly-arrived refugee students and teachers, and for their insightful input and comments. I am particularly grateful to all those children, adults and professionals that were interviewed within the frameworks of several research projects, a process which has provided the empirical basis for this article. Finally, this article is dedicated to all refugee children who continue to struggle in our classrooms for a better future, for themselves and for all of us. Nihad Bunar Stockholm, October 2017