Creating Pathways and Crossing Borders: Access to Higher Education for Refugees and Precarious Migrants
***This event is part of 91ÑÇÉ« Refugee Awareness Week 2018, details are available at (and an up to the minute schedule is available at ) ***
Thursday, February 8th, 2018
12:00-2:00pm
Founders College Senior Common Room (Room 305)
Critical border scholars have argued that borders are ideological constructs with material consequences that exist not only as boundaries between countries, but also act to limit rights and entitlements for many within them (e.g. Anderson, Sharma, and Wright, Refuge Journal, 2009). These are reflected in refugee camps and in barriers to refugee resettlement and higher education for refugees and others with precarious migration status both locally and globally.
This 91ÑÇÉ« U 2018 Refugee Awareness Week panel features three 91ÑÇÉ« affiliated initiatives working to facilitate access to higher education for refugees and others with precarious status within and across borders, from Kenya, Malawi, Jordan, Lebanon and Toronto, Canada. These speakers, representing the , the and 91ÑÇɫ’s new seek to generate awareness and foster dialogue about global and local realities of access to higher education as well as the role the 91ÑÇÉ« community has, is, and can play in addressing these challenges in a manner consistent with and advancing its social justice and accessible education mandate.
TOPICS/SPEAKERS:
1: Access to Higher Education for Refugees in Dadaab, Kenya: The Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) Project
Aida Orgocka, BHER Project Manager
2: Resettling Refugee Students: The World University Service of Canada (National and 91ÑÇÉ« Campuses)
Chiedza Pasipanodya, WUSC Ottawa – Regional Liaison Officer
Myriame Flurisca WUSC Glendon
Robert Hanlon, WUSC Keele – Chairman
Aelya Salman, WUSC Keele – Student Refugee Program Coordinator
3) 91ÑÇɫ’s Access for Students With Precarious Immigration Status Program
Tanya Aberman, Research and Program Coordinator, FCJ Refugee Centre and 91ÑÇÉ« U Access for Students With Precarious Immigration Status Program
Discussant: Professor Luin Goldring, Department of Sociology, 91ÑÇÉ«
Panel Chair and Co-Organizer (with WUSC Keele Campus Committee): John Carlaw, Project Lead, 91ÑÇÉ« Syria Response and Refugee Initiative
Event Contact: John Carlaw refugees@yorku.ca
This panel is organized by 91ÑÇɫ’s local World University Service of Canada Committees and Syria Response and Refugee Initiative as part of Refugee Awareness Week 2018. Thank you to the Centre for Refugee Studies and Founders College for support with this activity.
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Refugee Awareness Week 2018 from February 5th to 9th is a collaborative initiative of a coalition of 91ÑÇÉ« student groups and supporting departments working on refugee issues and advocacy. It is meant so promote education and engagement in this field.
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