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Sami Jabarkhail; Jean Madsen; Naveed Jabarkhail – Intercultural Education, 2025
This research provides an exploratory analysis of Afghan refugees educational challenges and opportunities in Tajikistan. The study consists of 21 long interviews with Afghan refugees, and 2 diplomats, each from the UNHCR and Embassy of the United States in Tajikistan. As a result of data analysis, three categories of challenges were identified to…
Descriptors: Refugees, Access to Education, Barriers, Economic Factors
Serra Acar; Ozden Pinar-Irmak; Angi Stone-MacDonald – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2024
Young refugee populations continue to grow. This scoping review aims to identify and summarize studies of programs that provide linguistically responsive practices for children who are refugees. Secondary aims of this review are: (a) to identify the gaps in the literature, and (b) to suggest future research and policy directions. By studying key…
Descriptors: Refugees, Language Usage, Young Children, Research Needs
Aman, Robert; Dahlstedt, Magnus – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2023
This article scrutinises the ways in which pupils who have experienced transnational migration construct 'home' and the unmaking of 'home'. Researchers have argued that migrants' perspectives on belonging are seldom granted scholarly attention. Here, we seek to redress this oversight by inquiring about the ways in which newly arrived migrants…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Student Attitudes, Acculturation, Foreign Countries
Rataj, Malgorzata; Berezovska, Iryna – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2023
The impact of the war on higher education and research in Ukraine is devastating. A great many teachers, researchers and students had to flee ruined universities and research centres. Numerous universities worldwide have demonstrated solidarity with Ukrainian refugees. In an effort to develop effective support strategies, this study identifies…
Descriptors: Refugees, Foreign Countries, War, Universities
Xia Chao – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This narrative case study examines the multilingual practice and identity of Haben, a refugee-background Somali-Bantu in a larger one-year (2019-2020) ethnography with refugee arrivals in coping with new linguistic and cultural environment in a northeastern U.S. city. Framed by the entangled transnational-translocal approach to multilinguals,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Refugees, African Languages, Second Language Learning
Farrukh Amina; Melissa M. Barnes; Eisuke Saito – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Schools, globally, have experienced an influx of culturally and linguistically diverse students, due to voluntary migration and forced displacement. To respond to the needs of these students, particularly those from refugee backgrounds, schools must understand how these students navigate their pathways to membership and belonging within their new…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Social Integration
Hüseyin Sinan Avci; Asim Ari – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2025
This study evaluates the refugee education in Lithuania, focusing on the perspectives of teachers. Employing a qualitative case study approach, semi-structured interviews with 14 teachers were conducted to explore the challenges, strategies, and outcomes related to refugee education. The findings reveal that while Lithuanian schools facilitate…
Descriptors: Refugees, Second Language Learning, Student Adjustment, Cultural Differences
Görür, Durmus Ziya; Babadogan, Mustafa Cem – International Education Studies, 2021
In recent years, the rapidly increasing number of Syrian students started to be trained in public schools affiliated with the Ministry of National Education (MoNE) raises various problems. Syrian students who are included in the same class as Turkish students without a specific preparation process both have difficulties themselves and causes…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Barriers, Foreign Countries, Refugees
Akcan, Emrullah – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2022
This paper aimed to determine primary school teachers' practices and classroom examples regarding culturally responsive education (CRE) in their life science courses. The study was conducted with the participation of 20 teachers, half of whom were employed in a primary school in Gaziantep province and the other half employed in the PIKTES…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Elementary School Teachers, Refugees, Language Usage
Hudson, Christopher; Luguetti, Carla; Spaaij, Ramon – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2023
The field of physical education (PE), sport, and forced migration studies has grown considerably in recent years. Although we have seen an increase in publications in the field, no reviews of pedagogies regarding people with refugee backgrounds in PE and sport have been published to date. The purpose of this review is to critically examine…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletics, Refugees, Cultural Differences
Andrea Rakushin Lee; Daniel Bailey; Michael Hidalgo; Elizabeth Harrison; Tara Hill – Intercultural Education, 2024
The fallout from the Afghan war led to a wave of refugees fleeing to other countries, with many of those being youth. The current paper explores the experiences and perceptions of educators who assist Afghan refugee youth during their transition to life in the United States. A phenomenological research design was used to examine how educators…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Refugees, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kamran, Hamza; Hassan, Hadi; Ali, Mehr Un Nisa; Ali, Danish; Taj, Moizzuddin; Mir, Zara; Pandya, Munj; Steinberg, Shirley R.; Jamal, Aamir; Zaidi, Mukarram – Qualitative Research Journal, 2022
Purpose: This study examined 46 articles in total, which yielded 5 recurring themes: perceived discrimination, language barriers, socioeconomic barriers, cultural barriers and educational/knowledge barriers. The two most dominant themes found were the inability to speak the country's primary language and belonging to a culture with different…
Descriptors: Primary Health Care, Access to Health Care, Barriers, Immigrants
Burke, Rachel; Baker, Sally; Hartley, Lisa; Field, Rebecca Soraya – Gender and Education, 2023
There has been a growth of scholarly interest in the experiences of people with refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds as they seek to access tertiary education in resettlement. While gender is frequently identified as a key factor that impacts equitable participation in tertiary studies, the educational challenges for women with forced migration…
Descriptors: Females, Immigrants, Refugees, Gender Differences
Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer; Ann-Birte Krüger; Annie Lasne; Nathalie Thamin – Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices, 2024
We explore the relationship between newcomer refugee families' linguistic competencies in the language of the host country and their collaboration in and with the school. Following a case study design and through the qualitative analysis of interviews with refugee family members and school staff from a German primary school, we analyse these…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Refugees
Jørgensen, Christian Helms; Hautz, Hannes; Li, Junmin – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Context: Vocational education and training (VET) plays a crucial role in the social inclusion of refugees. The aim of this paper is to examine how the VET systems of Austria, Denmark and Germany responded to the arrival of young refugees since 2015. VET in these countries is categorised as system of collective skill formation, which offers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Refugees, Cultural Differences

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