Thematic Focus: Education

Opportunities:

CFP: Forced Migration and the Global Education 2030 Agenda: From Educational Research to Policy and Practice, Glasgow, 4 August 2020 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 29 February 2020.

CFP: Navigating from Education to Employment in Crisis and Uncertainty, Oxford, 28-29 April 2020 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 3 March 2020.

Blog posts & press:

"'Qualification Passport' Enables Refugees to Study, Work in Countries of Exile," VOA News, 22 Dec. 2019 [text]

A Step Forward for 10,000 Rohingya Refugee Children: Bangladesh Allows Kids to Receive Formal Education (Human Rights Watch, Jan. 2020) [text]
- See also related Unicef story.

Reports:

Institutional Structures and Syrian Refugees' Experiences with Turkish Language Education in Turkey (Istanbul Policy Center, Oct. 2019) [text via UNHCR]

*Towards an Inclusive Education for Refugees: A Comparative Longitudinal Study - A Study of the Education of Refugee and National Children in Lebanon, Turkey and Australia (Centre for Lebanese Studies, Feb. 2020) [info]
- Follow link to access the first report for this project that has been published; focuses on Lebanon.

Urgent Measures Needed to Stop Iraq's Displaced Children Being Left Behind, Briefing Note (Norwegian Refugee Council, Dec. 2019) [text]

Walk the Talk? Review of Financing for Education in Emergencies, 2015-2018 (Save the Children, 2019; released Feb. 2020) [text]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"An Expression of Resilience? The Experiences of Students from an Asylum-Seeking Background at a College in Malta," Chapter in Resilience in Schools: Research and Practice (Univ. of Malta, 2020) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 38.

"Forced Migrant Children in the Classroom: Perspectives from Educators, Families and Program
Managers," Chapter in Resilience in Schools: Research and Practice (Univ. of Malta, 2020) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 19.

"'I Never Want to Lose that Key': On School as an Opportunity Structure for Unaccompanied Refugee Children in Sweden," Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Ahead of Print, 25 Nov. 2019 [open access]

Journal on Education in Emergencies, vol. 5, no. 1 (Dec. 2019) [open access]
- Special issue on "Refugees and Education: Part 1."

"Perceptions of Syrian Student Refugees Towards Blended Learning: Implications for Higher Education Institutions," International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning, vol. 15, no. 1 (2020) [open access]
- Focus is on Jordan.

"Unaccompanied, Unnoticed, and Undereducated: An Analysis of the Administrative Challenges of Educating Unaccompanied Children in Federal Custody," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 34, no. 1 (2019) [full-text]
- Focus is on the U.S.

Web site:

REACH Initiative, Harvard Univ. [access]
- "Through collaborative research, education, and action, REACH fosters welcoming communities and quality education in settings of migration and displacement. REACH collaborates with educators, policymakers, and researchers to ensure that all young people have access to inclusive and quality learning, the chance to develop relationships of belonging, and the ability to create future opportunities." More info in this press release. Note: There is different REACH Initiative that provides "assessment, database and mapping services in countries that are in crisis or at-risk of crisis."

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- Thematic Focus: Education (9 Dec. 2019)

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