08 May 2021

Thematic Focus: Education

Blog posts & press:

*The Impact of COVID-19 on Refugee Education (RI Blog, May 2021) [text]

Lebanon: Allow Syrian Refugee Students to Take Exams (Human Rights Watch, May 2021) [text]

*"Refugee Children Explain How Education Helped Put Their Trauma Behind Them," IPS News, 4 May 2021 [text]

Unaccompanied asylum-seeking youth in the UK: an interview with an expert - Inequalities in access to education (WIDERAngle Blog, April 2021) [text]

Reports:

Developing a Standardized Education Module (UNHCR, April 2021) [text]
- Note: This is part of UNHCR's Socioeconomic Assessment Resource Package.

Education Co-sponsorship Alliance Brief 2020 (Global Refugee Forum, April 2021) [text]
- "This brief provides a snapshot of the progress made throughout 2020, towards reaching the objectives of the Global Compact on Refugees and Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all), despite the significant challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic."

Excluded and Segregated: The vanishing education of refugee children in Greece (Refugee Support Aegean, April 2021) [text]

*Forced Displacement and Educational Outcomes: Evidence, Innovations, and Policy Indications, JDC Quarterly Digest (Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement, Dec. 2020) [text]

People from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds: an open access annotated bibliography, 3rd ed. (Refugee Education Special Interest Group, Dec. 2020) [text]

Journal articles:

"Impact of Psychoeducation Program on Turkish Students' Negative Attitudes Towards Refugee Peers," Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences, vol. 14, no. 1 (2020) [open access]

Journal for Educational Research Online, vol. 13 (2021) [open access]
- “This special issue presents quantitative-empirical research on the education of recent refugees in Germany, considering the relevant conditions, processes, and outcomes.” More info is provided in the introductory article; five additional articles are included.

"No Longer a ‘Lost Generation’? Opportunities and Obstacles of Online and Blended Learning Programmes for Syrian Refugees in Jordan and Lebanon," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 3 May 2021 [open access]

"Relative education of recent refugees in Germany and the Middle East: Is selectivity reflected in migration and destination decisions?," International Migration, Early View, 4 May 2021 [open access]
- "In this paper, relative education profiles of recent refugees arriving to Germany from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are described and compared to the profiles of Syrians in Jordan and Lebanon and of internally displaced Iraqis."

"Teachers’ Attitudes to Syrian Refugee Students in Turkey," Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, vol. 7, no. 1 (2021) [open access]

"Working toward aspirations: how higher education learning-working trajectories for refugees in the Netherlands support work-related capabilities," Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, EarlyCite, 25 Feb. 2021 [postprint]

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