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Refugees and Higher Education provides a cross-disciplinary lens on one American university's approach to studying the policies, practices, and experiences associated with the higher education of refugee background students.

What is the relationship between education and those seeking asylum or refuge? What is the impact of education being marginalized during conflict situations? Drawing on international research in numerous countries, including Thailand, North Korea, Lebenon, Africa, the USA and the UK, the contributors consider, conceptually and empirically, the provision of education to refugees and asylum seekers in their homeland or in host countries, analyzing the internal and external factors affecting educational provision during and after emergencies. Each chapter contains a summary of the key points and issues within the chapter to enable easy navigation, key contemporary questions to encourage you to actively engage with the material and an annotated list of suggested further reading to support you to take your exploration further. A companion website supports the text and provides updates and additional resources.

In times of intense migrations, securing a brighter future through education has become a growing concern in many societies. In particular, access to higher education for refugees has been the object of multiple initiatives among governments, civil society and nongovernment organisations. However, only 3 per cent of refugees access higher education, and there is a need to better understand, support and develop successful access for refugees among policymakers, educators and researchers. This research takes an original comparative digital approach to identifying those networks in three countries: Canada, England and France. Our findings suggest that the nature of issues for refugee access to higher education is constructed differently in each national context, as the social relations between government, civil society, nongovernment agencies and higher education institutions are uniquely configured.

The author postulates elucidatory central objectives and questions regarding the aforementioned paper title per integrative areas, with special foci on comprehensive doctoral research universities—that concentrate on research, teaching, and public engagement. The following queries are pondered and directed toward innovative technologies and science largely evident within the recent decades, contributing to virtual intellectual migration. (1) What historical and contemporary background conditions and discernments link the salience of this presentation? (2) What are the constructs of international technology and science diplomacy and intellectual migration? (3) What are roles of science and technology diplomacy as observed through formal and informal government and philanthropic initiatives via universities? (4) How are domestic and international universities preparing graduate students and professionals in novel technological manners that develop and engage virtual intellectual migration? (5) Through multifaceted processes, how might the blending of evolutionary technologies be altered and further incorporated within universities (and other organizations) to enhance virtual intellectual migration with an ultimate goal of promoting educational and diplomatic cooperations? This article responds to the queries and concludes by articulating the importance of virtual intellectual migration as can be observed by two foremost statesmen and diplomats—United Nations Secretary‐General Kofi Annan and American Senator J. William Fulbright. They were stalwarts of humankind.

Over the past two decades, research on immigrants and refugees (henceforth referred to as immigrants) in Canada has revolved around their struggles to rebuild self and family, and hopefully transition into fully participating Canadians. In many studies, immigrants are often presented as helpless or needy newcomers requiring the intervention of culturally sensitive service providers to navigate social supports and acquire important information in a bid to enable successful integration into Canadian society. As the official actors and implementers of migration policies, service providers views and operations remain central to how we view and treat various immigrant groups. The role of individuals, families and communities within immigrant populations as strategic sites of support has received very little attention in literature. This is even more so for smaller, under-researched groups like African immigrants.

Introdução: Desde o início da guerra civil na Síria, mais de 6.5 milhões de Sírios fugiram do país à procura de melhores condições de vida em países considerados mais seguros. Desde então, estes foram expostos aos mais variados tipos de stress com impacto na sua qualidade de vida (QdV) e consequências futuras a nível de saúde. Este estudo visa avaliar a perceção da QdV pelos migrantes sírios que vieram para Portugal através do programa GP4SYR, de forma a continuar a sua educação, e determinar os fatores associados à QdV.Métodos: Este é um estudo observacional transversal baseado num questionário online, em língua árabe, conduzido entre migrantes sírios que residem em Portugal. Os dados foram obtidos com o apoio do programa GP4SYS em 2020, de estudantes atuais e antigos, que residem em Portugal e aos quais foi atribuída uma bolsa pelo GP4SYS para prosseguir a sua educação em universidades portuguesas entre 2014 e 2020. Um total de 105 participantes foram recrutados para o estudo. QdV foi determinada usando a ferramenta World Health Organization Quality of Life BREF (WHOQOLBREF), os sintomas de ansiedade foram avaliados com recurso ao o Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) e os sintomas de depressão com o Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II). A relação entre idade, sexo, grau de escolaridade, estado civil, rendimentos, estatuto profissional, proficiência linguística do país de acolhimento, duração da estadia, local onde a família reside, sintomas de ansiedade e depressão assim como os dados de QdV que incluem os domínios QdV geral, físico, psicológico, social e meio ambiente foram quantificados através de modelos generalizados de regressão linear, recorrendo ao software IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS).Resultados: Os migrantes sírios perceberam que a sua pontuação mediana relativa à QdV é maior do que a sua satisfação geral com a saúde. Obtiveram valores mais altos no domínio físico, seguido do psicológico, social e meio ambiente. A QdV geral e os domínios psicológico e meio ambiente foram negativamente associados aos rendimentos insuficientes. O domínio psicológico foi associado de forma positiva a idade mais jovem, enquanto que o social foi associado de forma positiva a ser do sexo feminino. Níveis mais elevados de depressão foram negativamente associados à QdV geral e aos seus domínios, enquanto que níveis mais elevados de ansiedade foram negativamente associados à QdV geral e aos domínios físico e meio ambiente da QdV. Mais de metade dos participantes demonstraram sintomas de ansiedade e depressão. Adicionalmente, a maioria dos participantes que responderam que a pandemia influenciou as suas respostas relativamente à QdV, ansiedade e depressão, registaram uma influência negativa.Discussão: Os migrantes sírios demonstraram uma QdV inferior ao equivalente da população portuguesa, em todos os domínios. Apesar do apoio que Portugal presta aos migrantes sírios, estes parecem beneficiar de um menor leque de oportunidades conducentes à integração social, em particular condições de vida precárias e baixos subsídios sociais, o que explica níveis de QdV inferiores aos da população portuguesa. Compreender os fatores associados com a QdV dos migrantes sírios em Portugal é um passo fundamental para a promoção do seu estado de saúde e da sua integração no país de acolhimento.Conclusão: Os nossos resultados indicam que existe uma profunda necessidade de explorar fatores relacionados com as experiências pré-migratórias, a exclusão social, e valores culturais que podem influenciar a QdV dos migrantes sírios em Portugal. O nosso estudo alerta também para a necessidade de políticas que possam levar a intervenções multidimensionais para a promoção da saúde dos migrantes em Portugal.

Focuses on the use of a service learning project within the course, \"The Politics of International Relations\", in which the students worked with a refugee resettlement in a nongovernmental organization. Discusses the concepts that the service experience enabled the students to grasp, how the project encouraged global citizenship, and an assessment of the project. (CMK)

This study is the first to focus on saving patterns of a growing group of newcomers to Canada—people of Asian origin who arrived as refugees. Data are from personal interviews with 649 Boat People (Chinese Vietnamese, ethnic Vietnamese, and Laotians) who settled in Canada between 1979-81. Saving money was reported by 80 percent, with the usual pattern being to save money left after paying expenses. Main reasons for saving are emergencies and education of children. Nontraditional methods (bank accounts and Registered Retirement Savings Plans) indicate that the newcomers have access to and are using formal financial services. Several variables (i.e., age and marital status) that are usually associated with savings were not significant; but, as in other studies, higher education, satisfaction with income, and employment were associated with having savings. Ethnic differences suggest differing rates of acculturation for this group.