Refugee Education: Integration And Acceptance Of Refugees In Mainstream Society Hardcover

This volume examines how universities and colleges are working towards implementing various interventions to integrate refugees along with non-governmental organizations and local governments to achieve an optimal level of integration with host communities. The first part of the volume addresses the challenges of educating and integrating refugee populations, while the second part considers methods for establishing support systems. Using case studies and other empirical research, this volume presents a broad and in-depth overview of the various methods implemented to integrate the refugees into society. The international case studies reveal the complexity of the perception-practice dynamic and the multi-faceted factors that influence various levels of integration.

9781787147966

English

Emerald Publishing Limited

10-Sep-18

272

Enakshi Sengupta is Dean of the College of Business at the American University of Kurdistan, Iraq. She is a senior editor of the Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, and she serves as the vice chair of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Innovation in Higher Education Teaching and Learning series.Patrick Blessinger is the founder, executive director, and chief research scientist of the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL) and an adjunct associate professor in the School of Education at St. John's University, USA. Dr. Blessinger is the editor-in-chief of two international academic journals and two international book series on higher education .

Enakshi Sengupta

Patrick Blessinger

Educators and refugee advocates present case studies of dialogue between refugees and host governments and local communities. Among them are non-formal education practices tackling the challenge of refugee children is Israel, at the borders of Italian local welfare: unaccompanied refugee children ind South Italy: between persistence and change in politics and policies, support for the transition of refugees and victims of torture into the labor market through access to higher education, James Madison University sowing the seeds of CARE (creativity and reading education) within the Harrisonburg refugee community, and using art as a vehicle of hope and understanding: messages from youth in the US and Africa.