BHER is a development project that seeks to build the capacity of untrained refugee teachers in the Dadaab refugee camps by delivering online and face-to-face university-level courses that can build the capacity of future leaders in their communities. Teaching and le...
“A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members”(Mahatma Gandhi) This week, the new Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, greeted Syrian refugees landing in Toronto, telling them that“you’re safe at home now” as he handed them winter coats. “Tonight the...
This was addressed for the first time (at national level) in response to the so-called ‘European refugee crisis’ in 2016, when the Office for Students, the independent regulator of English HE, added ‘refugees’ as a widening participation target group, offering legitimacy to universities with...
The guidance counselor guided me in the process of choosing my career path. When I first arrived, I was placed in applied mathematics. I didn’t know the difference between applied, academic, and essential courses because we have only one type of course in Uganda. After learning about my ...
and Mountz, A.: The geopolitics of migrant mobil- ity: tracing state relations through refugee claims, boats, and dis- courses, Geopolitics, 17, 335-354, 2012.Ashutosh, Ishan, and Alison Mountz. "The geopolitics of migrant mobility: tracing state relations through refugee claims, boats, and ...
largest country of origin group in the hospitality course. We find that the Bhutanese refugees who participated in the course had high rates of homeownership, stable employment, higher wages and experienced socioeconomic upward mobility—positive indicators of integration. In our analysis, we identify...
Female refugees have also disproportionally lacked linking social capital, such as career readiness or education courses [49], which provides social connectedness with hierarchical institutions of power and access to support [50]. For example, female refugees tend to have less access to social services...