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.

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