Refugees and higher education : : trans-national perspectives on access, equity, and internationalization / / edited by Lisa Unangst [and four others].

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...

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Superior document:Global Perspectives on Higher Education ; Volume 47
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Sense,, [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Global perspectives on higher education ; Volume 47.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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, İdil Aksöz-Efe, Tamer Aker and M. Brinton Lykes
  • 18 Integrating Syrian Refugees into Turkish Higher Education: Successes, Challenges, and Future Implications
  • Armağan Erdoğan 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.