23 May 2025

Thematic Focus: Education

Opportunity:

CFP: "Teaching about Asylum and Migration," Online Workshop, 12 July 2025 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 13 June 2025.

Update on US actions regarding international students (chronological order):
  • "Feds reveal how immigration squad targeted thousands of foreign students," Politico, 29 April 2025 [text]
  • The Government Can’t Revoke a Visa Because of an Op-ed (CATO At Liberty Blog, 30 April 2025) [text]
  • "US government expands grounds for canceling international students’ legal status," AP News, 30 April 2025 [text]
  • Ideological Deportations Lawsuit Heads to Trial (Lawfare, 12 May 2025) [text]
  • "The US is reinstating records for international students. For some, it’s too late," AP News, 19 May 2025 [text]
  • "Federal judge blocks immigration authorities from revoking international students’ legal status," AP News, 22 May 2025 [text]
  • "Judge blocks Trump ban on Harvard foreign student enrollment," DW, 23 May 2025 [text]
  • "What International Students in the U.S. Need To Know: Risks, Rights and Resources," US News & World Report, 23 May 2025 [text]

Short pieces:

Discriminatory Testing Blocks Migrant Children’s Right to Education in Russia (HRW, May 2025) [text]

How can universities better support refugee background students? (Refugee Research Online, May 2025) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

Philippines’ annual Complementary Pathways Gathering strengthens education support for Rohingya youth (UNHCR, May 2025) [text]

Reports:

An evaluation of progress of the inclusion of refugees in national education systems in the IGAD member States (UNHCR, Nov. 2024) [access]
- Follow link for report, summary and technical note.

INSPIRE Guide to Refugee Inclusion in National Education Systems (World Bank & UNHCR, April 2025) [text via INEE]

Journal articles:

"Climate Displacement Can Permanently Hamper Children’s Education and Imperil Future Prospects," Migration Information Source, 7 May 2025 [text]

"Do Municipal Factors Influence the Type of Schooling Newly Arrived Refugees Receive?," Social Inclusion, vol. 13 (2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Germany.

"Making sense of academic service in unpredictable times: exploring the risks and benefits of academic activism in higher education," Higher Education Research & Development, Latest Articles, 2 April 2025 [open access]
- Draws on "a collective biography with academics from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the UK involved in refugee-focused social movements." 

"Refugee education for living well in a world worth living in," Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 19 March 2025 [open access]
- "Explores how teachers in Finnish, South African, and Australian schools work towards the double purpose of education."

"Rethinking higher education in protracted crises: Policy responses and lived experiences of Syrian refugees in Lebanon," International Review of Education, Latest Articles, 29 April 2025 [open access]

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