Refugees in Higher Education : Debate, Discourse and Practice / Jacqueline Stevenson and Sally Baker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevenson, Jacqueline, author.

Baker, Sally, author.

Series:

Great debates in higher education.

Great Debates in Higher Education Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Higher education and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Leeds, England : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2024]

Summary:

The second edition contains new sections focused on issues of race and racialisation, treatment of people seeking asylum in both national contexts, and international efforts to respond to issues with refugee access to higher education, including international educational complementary pathways, and national sanctuary movements.

Contents:

Cover

Refugees in Higher Education

Series Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

About the Authors

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

Why This Book and Why Update It?

Personal Account: Jacqueline

Personal Account: Sally

Global Migration and Higher Education in Times of Super-Precarity

Global Patterns of Forced Migration

Global Education Enrolment Rates for Refugees

A Coordinated Global Effort to Open Higher Education Opportunities and Improve Outcomes for Refugees

Refugees and People Seeking Asylum in the UK and Australia

Australia

Access to Education for Refugees and People Seeking Asylum in Australia

The UK

Access to Education for Refugees and People Seeking Asylum in the UK

Language Proficiency and Resettlement in the Anglophone Contexts of Australia and the UK

Language and Resettlement

Definitions of Forced Migration

Terminology Used in This Book

Refugees in Higher Education: Debate, Discourse and Practice

2. Key Debates

Refugee Education: A New Zeitgeist or a New Site of Colonialism?

Refugees in Media Discourse: Heroes and Villains

Refugees as 'the Racialised Other' in Higher Education

Inhospitality? Hostile Attitudes Towards Asylum Seekers, and Their Positioning as a Sub-Class of Students in Higher Education

People Seeking Asylum in Higher Education

Rethinking What Refugees (Can) Contribute: Disrupting the 'Needy Refugee Narrative'

Summary

3. Widening Participation, 'Equity' Cohorts and Refugee Students in Higher Education

Widening Participation: A Global Project

Contemporary Higher Education Systems: Market Logics and Hyper-Competition

Non-Traditional Students: The 'New Normal' for Higher Education?.

Refugees as a Sub-Set of Black and Minority Ethnic/Non-English-Speaking Background Students

The Fetishisation of Diversity

Where Do Refugees Fit in Higher Education?

Policy: Refugee Students in Higher Education: An Invisible Group

Access to, Aspirations for Higher Education for Refugee Students

Participation in Higher Education

Identifying Refugee Students

Informational Barriers

Language Proficiency

Academic Literacies

Familiarity With Academic Cultural Knowledge

Culturally Unresponsive Teaching and Learning

Staff Perceptions of Barriers to Participation for Refugee Students

Time

Online Participation

Trauma

Gender

COVID as Magnifying Glass: Highlighting Structural, Systemic and Individual Barriers

Transitions Out of Higher Education

4. Aaliyah's Story

Background and Context: The Republic of Guinea

Introducing Aaliyah

5. Andy's Story

Background and Context: Afghanistan

Introducing Andy

Update

6. Sadiya's Story

Background and Context: The Republic of Iraq

Introducing Sadiya

7. William's Story

Background and Context: South Sudan

Introducing William

8. Institutional Assumptions and Other Barriers to Change in Higher Education

Institutional Assumptions About Familiarity With Western Education Systems

Institutional Assumptions About Why Students Aspire for Higher Education

Institutional Assumptions About Students' Transitions and Educational Trajectories

Institutional Assumptions About Students' Familiarity With Academic Language and Literacies in Monolingual Universities

Monolingualism and UK/Australian Higher Education

Institutional Views of Language

Academic Literacies: Sets of Disciplinary-Specific Sociocultural Practices.

Issues With Institutional Approaches That Collapse Language and Literacy

9. Moving Forward - What More Can Universities Do?

How Can Australian and UK HEIs Help to Meet the 15/30 Target: Creating Complementary Educational Pathways and Connected Lea ...

Complementary Educational Pathways

Connected Learning

Create More Responsive Institutional Supports

Helping Refugee Students to Matter Through Relational Pedagogies

More Consideration of the Ethics of Working With and Researching With Refugees

10. Conclusion

References.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-83797-975-8