Borderless Higher Education for Refugees

Borderless Higher Education for Refugees

Author: Wenona Giles

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-08-26

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1350151262

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Winner of the 2022 CIES Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award Higher education is increasingly recognized as crucial for the livelihoods of refugees and displaced populations caught in emergencies and protracted crises, to enable them to engage in contemporary, knowledge-based, global society. This book tells the story of the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) project which delivers tuition-free university degree programs into two of the largest protracted refugee camps in the world, Dadaab and Kakuma in Kenya. Combining a human rights approaches, critical humanitarianism and a concern with gender relations and intersecting inequalities, the book proposes that higher education can provide refugees with the possibility of staying put or returning home with dignity. Written by academics based in Canada, Kenya, Somalia and the USA, as well as NGO workers and students from the camps, the book demonstrates how North-South and South-South collaborations are possible and indeed productive.


Refugees in Higher Education

Refugees in Higher Education

Author: Jana Berg

Publisher: Springer VS

Published: 2021-07-29

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9783658333379

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This edited volume addresses critical issues surrounding higher education access for students of refugee backgrounds. It combines a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives on the challenges, opportunities, experiences and expectations of refugee students, as well as some of the institutional frameworks that facilitate their access to higher education. Following a critical discussion of the notion of ‘integration’, the team of authors who are made up of academics and refugee students critically investigate higher education as an objective of as well as a means to greater inclusion and integration.


Borderless Higher Education for Refugees

Borderless Higher Education for Refugees

Author: Wenona Giles

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-08-26

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1350151254

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Higher education is increasingly recognized as crucial for the livelihoods of refugees and displaced populations caught in emergencies and protracted crises, to enable them to engage in contemporary, knowledge-based, global society. This book tells the story of the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) project which delivers tuition-free university degree programs into two of the largest protracted refugee camps in the world, Dadaab and Kakuma in Kenya. Combining a human rights approaches, critical humanitarianism and a concern with gender relations and intersecting inequalities, the book proposes that higher education can provide refugees with the possibility of staying put or returning home with dignity. Written by academics based in Canada, Kenya, Somalia and the USA, as well as NGO workers and students from the camps, the book demonstrates how North-South and South-South collaborations are possible and indeed productive.


Refugees and Higher Education

Refugees and Higher Education

Author: Lisa Unangst

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-07-13

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 9004435840

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Refugees and Higher Education provides a cross-disciplinary lens on one American university’s approach to studying the policies, practices, and experiences associated with the higher education of refugee background students.


Borderless Higher Education for Refugees

Borderless Higher Education for Refugees

Author: Wenona Giles

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-11-04

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1350151246

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Introduction, Wenona Giles, Lorrie Miller, Philemon Misoy, Norah Kariba, Okello Mark Oyat -- Part I: Putting a Project into Action -- 1. Historical and Political Contestations in the Dadaab Refugee Camps and North-Eastern Kenya, Mohamed Duale, Esther Munene, and Marangu Njogu -- 2. Gender Disparities in University Access in the Kenyan Kakuma Camps, Danielle Bishop, Hanan Duri, and Grace Nshimiyumukiza -- 3. The Challenges of Reciprocity and Relative Autonomy in North/South Partnerships, Josephine Gitome and Don Dippo -- 4. Development of a Community Health Education Degree Programme through a North-South Collaboration: Lessons Learned, F -- . Beryl Pilkington and Isabella I -- . Mbai Part II: Students and Teachers: Inside the BHER Supported Classroom -- 5. Refugees Respond: Using Digital Tools, Networks and 'Production Pedagogies' to Envision Possible Futures, Abdikadir Abikar, Abdullahi Aden, Kurt Thumlert, Negin Dahya, Jennifer Jenson -- 6. Technology and Flexibility: The On-line Learning Experience of Teaching Assistants and their Students in the Dadaab Refugee Camps, Hawa Sabriye, Dacia Douhaibi, with contributions from Arte Dagane and Ochan Leomoi -- 7. Out of Bounds: The BHER Bones of Teaching Geography Across Borders, Megan Youdelis, Dacia Douhaibi, Devin Holterman, Kamal Paudel, Valerie Preston, Tarmo K. Remmel, Elizabeth Lunstrum, Joseph Mensah -- 8. Academic Philanthropy and Pedagogies of Resilience, Lorrie Miller, Graham Lea, Rita Irwin, Samson Nashon, Elizabeth Jordan, Kimberly Baker, Espen Stranger-Johannessen -- 9. Refugee Students' Experience of Accessing English Language Learning in Dadaab, Kenya, HaEun Kim, Nombuso Dlamini, Dahabo Ibrahim, Seraphin Kimonyo, and Johanna Reynolds -- 10. A Gallery to Rethink and Re-place the Anthropocene: Framing From A Place-based Borderless Higher Education, Steve Alsop and Roxanne Cohen Afterword, Fouzia Warsame, the Dean of Education, Somali National University, Mogadishu References -- Index.


Refugee High

Refugee High

Author: Elly Fishman

Publisher: The New Press

Published: 2023-10-03

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1620978415

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A year in the life of a Chicago high school with one of the nation’s highest proportions of refugees, told with “strong novel-like pacing” (Milwaukee Magazine) "A stunning and heart-wrenching work of nonfiction."—Chicago Reader Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Award For a century, Chicago’s Roger C. Sullivan High School has been a home to immigrant and refugee students. In 2017, during the worst global refugee crisis in history, its immigrant population numbered close to three hundred—or nearly half the school—and many were refugees new to the country. These young people came from thirty-five different countries, speaking more than thirty-eight different languages. Called “a feat of immersive reporting” (National Book Review), and “a powerful portrait of resilience in the face of long odds” (Publishers Weekly), Refugee High, by award-winning journalist Elly Fishman, offers a riveting chronicle of the 2017–8 school year at Sullivan High, a time when anti-immigrant rhetoric was at its height in the White House. Even as we follow teachers and administrators grappling with the everyday challenges facing many urban schools, we witness the complicated circumstances and unique needs of refugee and immigrant children: Alejandro may be deported just days before he is scheduled to graduate; Shahina narrowly escapes an arranged marriage; and Belenge encounters gang turf wars he doesn’t understand. Heartbreaking and inspiring in equal measure, Refugee High raises vital questions about the priorities and values of a public school and offers an eye-opening and captivating window into the present-day American immigration and education systems.


Refugees in Higher Education

Refugees in Higher Education

Author: Jacqueline Stevenson

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2018-10-15

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1787542165

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This book provides a critical appraisal of the participation of students from refugee backgrounds in higher education, exploring how global discourses about forced migration play out for students in terms of accessing, participating, and succeeding in higher education.


Digital Approaches to Promoting Integration in Higher Education

Digital Approaches to Promoting Integration in Higher Education

Author: Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-07-31

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 3030771512

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This book discusses digital learning opportunities in higher education for refugees with different educational, social, cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Based on findings from practical studies and research projects from several countries, the book highlights the numerous challenges when it comes to the successful integration of refugees into higher education. These challenges arise at both the individual and the institutional level. The contributions included in this book show how these challenges can be effectively met using digital teaching-learning platforms. The work thus offers a comprehensive insight into the opportunities online-based learning platforms offer regarding the successful integration of refugees into higher education Overall, the research presented in this volume is relevant for political stakeholders, university practitioners in the field of migration research, university research, and online and digital learning.


Challenges and Opportunities in Education for Refugees in Europe

Challenges and Opportunities in Education for Refugees in Europe

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-12-24

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9004383220

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The wave of migrants arriving in Europe fleeing from war or hard living conditions represents both a challenge and a great educational opportunity for the European school systems. Currently, research and good practice in this field have been mainly developed within the boundaries of national educational politics and policies, addressing distinct populations. This fragmentation has stood in the way of a systematic analysis of the question at the European level, which is a necessary condition for the advancement of successful educational interventions. The book aims to offer substantive insights for researchers, policy makers, and teachers concerned with the effective inclusion of refugees within education by collecting and comparing the growing body of knowledge that is emerging from eight European countries. Contributors are: Oula Abu-Amsha, Miki Aristorenas, Tatjana Atanasoska, Benjamin Brass, Henrik Bruns, Heike de Boer, Sanja Grbić, Hermina Gunnþórsdóttir, Laure Kloetzer, Tünde Kovacs Cerović, Louise Pagden, Michelle Proyer, Wayne Veck, Dragan Vesić, and Julie Wharton.


A Better Future

A Better Future

Author: Jacqueline Bhabha

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-09-17

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 1108496881

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This book explores the exclusion of underprivileged groups from higher education - a critical frontier for diversity and equality endeavors.