4. UNHCR notes with concern that although the country acceded to the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol in 1999, incorporation of the 1951 Convention obligations into national legislation and normative acts has been slow and to date Kazakhstan has failed to comply with its obligation to give full effect to the Covenant in the domestic legal order, inter alia providing for effective judicial and other remedies for violations of these rights

United Nations High Commission for Refugees

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Online communities – Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability

Interviewing in Qualitative Research

On 19 September 2016, 193 countries committed to the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants. What does this mean for refugees?

New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants

In this paper, we explore the role of online social networks in the cultivation of pathways to higher education for refugees, particularly for women. We compare supports garnered in local and offline settings to those accrued through online social networks and examine the differences between women and men. The paper draws on complementary original data sources, including an online survey of the Somali Diaspora (n = 248) and in-depth interviews (n = 21) with Somali refugees who do or have lived in the Dadaab refugee camps of Kenya. We find an important interplay of local and global interactions, mediated by mobile technology, that participants identify as critical to their access to higher education. Our analysis relates these interactions to shifting social norms and possibilities for refugee women’s education. Our findings directly address the use of information and communication technology in expanding opportunities for higher education for women in refugee camps.

Tracing pathways to higher education for refugees: the role of virtual support networks and mobile phones for women in refugee camps

This article explores the understood purposes of refugee education at global, national, and school levels. To do so, we focus on a radical shift in global policy to integrate refugees into national...

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The Purposes of Refugee Education: Policy and Practice of Including Refugees in National Education Systems:

This study identifies pathways to educational success among refugees. Data are from an original online survey of Somali diaspora and in-depth qualitative interviews with Somali refugee students edu...

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Pathways to Educational Success Among Refugees: Connecting Locally and Globally Situated Resources:

Teachers play a central role in supporting students whose lives have been disrupted by crisis, yet the teachers providing education to refugee students often are refugees themselves. This article explores how being a teacher influences the experience of being a refugee and, conversely, how the experience of being a refugee influences the teacher’s role. I present portraits of two Syrian educators living as refugees in Lebanon who are working to educate refugee students. I find that that these two educators struggle to balance their teaching obligations with the realities of living as refugees themselves. While global frameworks depict refugee educators as having the power to prepare a new generation of Syrian students, these educators feel powerless to transcend the social, economic, and political barriers constructed around them in Lebanon. In their personal lives, these educators struggle with a loss of hope and psychological exhaustion, yet they are expected, and expect themselves, to project hopefulness and psychological strength in the classroom. While the educators welcome the opportunity to reclaim a professional identity, their work often leaves them with a sense of frustration and loss. These findings support the need to improve the support provided refugee teachers. Received November 27, 2018; revised May 29, 2019; accepted September 3, 2019; electronically published December 2019. Journal on Education in Emergencies, Vol. 5, No. 1 Copyright © 2019 by the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE). ISSN 2518-6833

When the Personal Becomes the Professional: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Syrian Refugee Educators

ZEP : Zeitschrift fur internationale Bildungsforschung und Entwicklungspadagogik 40 (2017) 1, S. 4-9
Padagogische Teildisziplin: Bildungsorganisation, Bildungsplanung und Bildungsrecht;

Elizabeth Adelman

Papers

The Purposes of Refugee Education: Policy and Practice of Including Refugees in National Education Systems:

Pathways to Educational Success Among Refugees: Connecting Locally and Globally Situated Resources:

When the Personal Becomes the Professional: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Syrian Refugee Educators

The pursuit, practicality and potential of refugee education