Manya Oriel Kagan is a sociologist of education, with a focus on refugee and migrant children’s rights to and in education in urban settings, primarily in East Africa and the Middle East. She has co-authored papers in journals including Race, Ethnicity and Education, Critique of Anthropology, and Adoption and Fostering. She co-edited a Hebrew-language book, Development in Africa, and is the current co-editor of the American Anthropological Association’s Anthropology of Childhood. Kagan also serves as a visiting scholar at Clark University. She completed her PhD at the School of Education at Ben Gurion University, Israel, and received her BA in comparative religions and her master’s in international development from The Hebrew University, Israel.