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Refugee Students' Access to Three European Universities: An Ethnographic Study
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Abstract The article presents an ethnographic fieldwork carried out at three universities in Switzerland, Germany, and France, and analyses how access to higher education for refugees was addressed in the three cases, how and which institutional change and activities were initiated, and by which actors. The ... view more
The article presents an ethnographic fieldwork carried out at three universities in Switzerland, Germany, and France, and analyses how access to higher education for refugees was addressed in the three cases, how and which institutional change and activities were initiated, and by which actors. The article argues that the topic cannot be addressed in isolation but has to consider four intersecting areas: the personal biography and migratory history of the students, the asylum system, the educational system, and the funding situation. For the refugee students, the challenge is that these areas need to be taken into account simultaneously, but what is more challenging is that they are not well in tune with one another. Solutions need to take this complex - and place-specific - situation into account.... view less
Keywords
university level of education; university; university admission; refugee; migration; asylum seeker; asylum policy; education system; integration; Switzerland; France; Federal Republic of Germany
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Macroanalysis of the Education System, Economics of Education, Educational Policy
Free Keywords
refugee students
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 71-79
Journal
Social Inclusion, 7 (2019) 1
Issue topic
Inequalities in Access to Higher Education: Methodological and Theoretical Issues
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed