Borderless Higher Education for Refugees: Lessons from the Dadaab Refugee Camps Giles Wenona
Borderless Higher Education for Refugees: Lessons from the Dadaab Refugee Camps Giles Wenona Higher education is increasingly recognized as crucial for the livelihoods of refugees and displaced…
Specifikacia Borderless Higher Education for Refugees: Lessons from the Dadaab Refugee Camps Giles Wenona
Borderless Higher Education for Refugees: Lessons from the Dadaab Refugee Camps Giles Wenona
Higher education is increasingly recognized as crucial for the livelihoods of refugees and displaced populations caught in emergencies and protracted crises, to enable them to engage in contemporary, knowledge-based, global society. Combining a human rights approaches, critical humanitarianism and a concern with gender relations and intersecting inequalities, the book proposes that higher education can provide refugees with the possibility of staying put or returning home with dignity. This book tells the story of the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) project which delivers tuition-free university degree programs into two of the largest protracted refugee camps in the world, Dadaab and Kakuma in Kenya.
Written by academics based in Canada, Kenya, Somalia and the USA, as well as NGO workers and students from the camps, the book demonstrates how North-South and South-South
Refugees in Higher Education
HANDBOOK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
Lessons from the Masters