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This book draws from the voices of students and those who educate them to reveal the unique issues faced in the quest to access higher education in order to provide a greater understanding of the complex phenomenon of international migration and its intersection with higher education.
Higher Education in the Era of Migration, Displacement and Internationalization¿examines how higher education institutions globally can improve to meet the needs of displaced people, refugees, migrants, and international students. Examining relevant policy, leadership, programs, and services that equitably meet diversified students' needs, this book examines how institutions can increase access, participation, and success. The chapters present cutting-edge scholarship that tie the existing body of knowledge on international migration for higher education to ways that institutions of higher education can assist the formation of relevant policy towards displaced groups around the globe. Through students' voices from different nations as well as global policy analysis, the book exemplifies how different higher education institutions are widening access pathways for atypical students.
This book is essential reading for scholars, policy-makers, and communities of practitioners. It offers a greater understanding of the complex phenomenon of international immigration and its intersection with higher education. By transcending national policy analysis, it extends the subject of refugee and migration studies to a wider audience.
List of contents
1. Definition: Atypical international students 2. Traversing boundaries, moving between different zones 3. Access to Higher Education for Displaced Persons: Five Country Cases 4. Higher education for displaced persons: Lessons from the research 5. Displaced students' viewpoints on their higher education experiences 6. Support for Refugee Students at National and International Levels 7. Higher education for refugees: Global discourses and future research
About the author
Khalid Arar is a Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education at Texas State University, Texas, USA, and an Associate Editor of the
International Journal of Leadership in Education. Yasar Kondakci is a Professor in Educational Administration at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and the founding editor of
Higher Education Governance and Policy journal.
Bernhard Streitwieser is an Associate Professor of International Education and International Affairs, George Washington University, USA.
Anna Saiti is a Professor of Management and Economics of Education, in the Department of Early Childhood Care and Education, School of Administrative, Economics & Social Sciences, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.
Summary
This book draws from the voices of students and those who educate them to reveal the unique issues faced in in the quest to access higher education in order to provide a greater understanding of the complex phenomenon of international migration and its intersection with higher education.
