Higher Education for Refugees

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The Borderless Higher Education for Refugees Project: Enabling Refugee and Local Kenyan Students in Dadaab to Transition to University Education

This article examines some of the challenges experienced by students living in and near the Dadaab refugee camps in northeastern Kenya who were making the transition from secondary school to university programs. The students were enrolled in courses offered by two Kenyan and two Canadian universities that were partners in the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees project. The context of Dadaab and the structure of the pilot project are also explored

Clean Jobs, Dirty Jobs: Ethnicity, Social Reproduction and Gendered Identity

Issues of ethnic identity, gender and politics intersect for two generations of Portuguese women in Toronto. In this article I use a ’social reproduction’ approach to analyze the meaning of exploitation for these women. The co-existence of both resistance to the dominant hegemonic culture and appropriation of nativistic notions of progress among the two generations of women are examined. The use of the words ’clean’ and ’dirty’ as they pertain to wage work and issues of status and ethnic identity are explored.Deux générations de femmes portugaises de Toronto sont aux prises avec des questions d’identité ethnique, de genre et de politique. Dans cet article, j’utilise une approche de type « reproduction sociale » pour analyser ce que l’exploitation peut signifier pour cesfemmes. J’examine aussi comment co-existent la résistance à une culture dominante hégémonique et l’appropriation de notion de progrès de type nativiste. J’explore également la valeur des mots « propre » et « sale » dans leur rapport au travail salarié et aux questions de statut et d’identité ethnique

The Borderless Higher Education for Refugees Project: Enabling Refugee and Local Kenyan Students in Dadaab to Transition to University Education

This article examines some of the challenges experienced by students living in and near the Dadaab refugee camps in northeastern Kenya who were making the transition from secondary school to university programs. The students were enrolled in courses offered by two Kenyan and two Canadian universities that were partners in the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees project. The context of Dadaab and the structure of the pilot project are also explored