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Education, refugees, and asylum seekers / edited by Lala Demirdjian.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Education as a humanitarian response
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Refugees--Education--Cross-cultural studies.
- Refugees.
- Political refugees--Education--Cross-cultural studies.
- Political refugees.
- Humanitarian assistance--Cross-cultural studies.
- Humanitarian assistance.
- Education.
- Refugees--Education.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- pages cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Continuum International Pub. Group, [2011]
- Summary:
- What is the relationship between education and those seeking asylum or refuge?
- What is the impact of education being marginalized during conflict situations?
- Drawing on international research in numerous countries, including Thailand, North Korea, Lebenon, Africa, the USA and the UK, the contributors consider the provision of education to refugees and asylum seekers in their homeland or in host countries. They also analyze the internal and external factors affecting educational provision during and after emergencies.
- Each chapter contains a summary of the key points and issues to enable easy navigation, key contemporary questions to encourage active engagement with the material and an annotated list of suggested reading to support further exploration. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: global overview: education, refugees and asylum seekers / Lala Demirdjian
- The educational life histories of a group of North Korean defector university students in South Korea / Candice Kay Lee
- Refugee education in Thailand: displacement, dislocation and disjuncture / Su-Ann Oh
- The provision of education in the Palestinian refugee camps, in Lebanon / Lala Demirdjian
- Non-formal education as a means of supporting the well-being of resettled refugees: case studies of community approaches in Denver, Colorado, USA / Janet Shriberg, Susan Downs-Karkos, Stacey Weisberg
- Refugees and education in Kent, England / James Dada
- 21st century learning: the role of community cohesion in refugee education / Megan McCorriston.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Frances Baylinson Rosenbluth Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1441136274
- 9781441136275
- 9781441193711
- 1441193715
- 9781441163455
- 144116345X
- 9781441150653
- 144115065X
- OCLC:
- 700930340
- Publisher Number:
- 99948130558
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