Refugees and Higher Education

Trans-National Perspectives on Access, Equity, and Internationalization
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43583-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 47, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Reihe: Global Perspectives on Higher Education

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. The focus is not only on refugee education as an issue of access and equity, but also on this phenomenon as seen through the lens of internationalization. What competencies are called for among university faculty and staff welcoming refugee-background students to their institutional contexts? How might “distance learning” be considered anew? These challenges and opportunities for institutional growth will be closely considered by this group of authors from educational leadership, social work, curriculum development, and higher education itself. They address key world regions, and sub-topics ranging from online education in refugee camps to the Brazilian and Colombian responses to the emerging crisis in Venezuela. Scholars researching refugee education cross-nationally often find that refugee education literature is parsed by disciplinary field. This book, in contrast, offers a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary overview of refugee education issues around the world. These perspectives also provide key insights for faculty and staff at higher education institutions that currently enroll asylees or refugees, as well as those that may do so in the future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unangst, Lisa

Ergin, Hakan

Khajarian, Araz

Delaquil, Tessa

De Wit, Hans

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Preface

Hans de Wit, Philip Altbach and Rebecca Schendel

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Part 1: Framing the Landscape

1 Refugees and Higher Education: Trans-national Perspectives on Access, Equity, and Internationalization

Hans de Wit, Tessa DeLaquil, Hakan Ergin, Araz Khajarian and Lisa Unangst

2 Refugee Higher Education in Contexts of Displacement: Educational Approaches and Programmatic Initiatives

Thomas M. Crea and David Holdcroft

3 Questioning the Ethics and Rationale of Refugee Research

Hakan Ergin

Part 2: Regional and National Perspectives

Section 1: Latin America

4 Higher Education’s Response to Refugee Crises: Applying Lessons from the Syrian Conflict to the Venezuelan Context

Natalie Borg

5 Colombian Institutional Responses to the Venezuelan Refugee Crisis

Hannah Maria Cazzetta

6 Going Above and Beyond Access to Higher Education: The Brazilian Case

Kelber Tozini

Section 2: North America

7 The Staying Dynamic among Syrian Students in the U.S.

Araz Khajarian

8 Latin Americans in the United States: Considerations on Immigrant and Refugee Access to Higher Education

Gabrielle Oliveira and Corinne Kentor

9 Human Rights Discourse and the US Education Landscape: Refugee-Specific Activity at Colleges and Universities in Idaho and Maine

Lisa Unangst

Section 3: Europe

10 Higher Education Innovations in Response to the Needs of Syrian Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Germany and Elsewhere

Natalie Borg

11 Vocational Training, “Upskilling,” and Paths to Higher Education for Refugees: Insights from Germany and Sweden

Narintohn Luangrath

12 Refugees Access to Higher Education in Ireland

Michael Cronin, Clíodha Murphy, David M. Doyle, Delma Byrne and Muiread Murphy

Section 4: Asia and Oceania

13 Towards Human Rights and Human Dignity for the Stateless in Higher Education: Denied Access to Higher Education for Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh

Tessa DeLaquil

14 At the Policy Margins: People from Refugee Backgrounds in Australian Higher Education

Andrew Harvey and Betty Leask

Section 5: Ethiopia

15 Higher Education for Refugees in Ethiopia

Ayenachew A. Woldegiyorgis

16 Self-Financing as a New Stream of Refugee Higher Education: The Case of Eritreans in Ethiopia

Wondwosen Tamrat and Samuel Dermas Habtemariam

Section 6: Turkey

17 Struggles and Assets of Syrian University Students in Turkey

Özgür Erdur-Baker, Onur Özmen, Idil Aksöz-Efe, Tamer Aker and M. Brinton Lykes

18 Integrating Syrian Refugees into Turkish Higher Education: Successes, Challenges, and Future Implications

Armagan Erdogan and Hakan Ergin

Part 3: The K-12 to University Pipeline

19 Lessons from the Primary and Secondary School Context: Building Capacity to Support Migrant and Refugee Students

Rebecca Lowenhaupt and Martin Scanlan

20 The K-12 to University Pipeline in the U.S. context: Implications for Refugee Students

Kerri Evans and Lisa Unangst

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Unangst is a PhD candidate in Higher Education at Boston College. She has published in the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management and Policy Reviews in Higher Education. Her research focuses on refugee education in Germany and elsewhere.

Hakan Ergin is a Lecturer at Istanbul University. He previously completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for International Higher Education, Boston College. His research interests include internationalization of higher education, adult education, migration, right to education and distance learning.

Araz Khajarian is a master’s student at Boston College. She earned her B.A. from Salve Regina University after previous study at the Higher Institute of Business Administration in Damascus. Her thesis examines context-relativity in organizational culture at a Jordanian university.

Tessa DeLaquil is a Ph.D. student and research assistant at CIHE, Boston College. Her research interests include the philosophy of higher education and religious pluralism. She previously attended Queen’s University and the Franciscan University of Steubenville.

Hans de Wit has published many articles on international higher education and was founding editor of the Journal of Studies in International Education and founding member of the European Association for International Education. He is Director of Boston College’s CIHE.