The voices of young refugee children are often unheard and unacknowledged in early childhood research. Deficit views that perpetuate their vulnerability and victimization pervade research and media. Such omnipresent views need to be challenged by foregrounding and capitalizing on the strengths, agency, and resilience of refugee children. Grounded in the Community Cultural Wealth framework, this study aimed to explore the aspects of cultural wealth among Syrian refugee children through their subjective perspectives about their experiences in attending a preschool intervention program and resettlement lives in Turkey. Drawing upon the research with children paradigm, individual pictorial interviews were conducted with 36 refugee children based on visually-enriched child-friendly methods that echoed the photo-elicitation technique. Findings revealed the various funds of assets, skills, and knowledges possessed and employed by children within six cultural wealth capitals: Navigational, social, familial, linguistic, resistant, and aspirational capital. Diverse facets of cultural wealth captured in these capitals suggest the strengths, agency, and resilience of refugee children in their educational experiences and adaptation processes to their new lives in resettlement communities. Findings also highlight their understanding of social and racial justice against inequalities of forced displacement, xenophobia, and social exclusion. Children’s overall human capital and strengths-based portrayal serve as an antidote to their existing deficit views and marginalized narratives. This study is the first to uncover early education and life experiences of young Syrian children by directly working with them and spotlighting their own voices. Findings have implications for early childhood research and practitioners working with refugee children.

在早期儿童研究中，未曾听说过年轻的难民儿童的声音，也没有听到他们的声音。使他们的脆弱性和受害永久存在的缺乏见解遍布研究和媒体。这种无所不在的观点需要通过突出和利用难民儿童的优势，权威和韧性来挑战。这项研究以社区文化财富框架为基础，旨在通过对叙利亚难民儿童参加土耳其学龄前干预计划和安置生活的经验的主观观点，探索其文化财富的各个方面。在吸取了研究与儿童范例，对36名难民儿童进行了单独的图片采访，其依据的是丰富的对儿童友好的视觉方法，呼应了光激发技术。调查结果揭示了儿童在六个文化财富之都内拥有和使用的各种资产，技能和知识的资金：航行，社会，家庭，语言，抵抗和理想资本。在这些首都捕获的文化财富的不同方面表明，难民儿童在教育经验和适应安置社区新生活的过程中的优势，作用和韧性。调查结果还强调了他们对社会和种族正义的理解，以应对强迫流离失所，仇外心理和社会排斥的不平等现象。儿童的整体人力资本和基于优势的刻画是他们现有的赤字观点和边缘化叙述的解药。该研究是第一个通过直接与叙利亚儿童合作发现叙利亚幼儿的早期教育和生活经验的研究。他们并聚焦自己的声音。这些发现对早期儿童研究和与难民儿童一起工作的从业者具有重要意义。