De-bordering Higher Education, livre ebook

• Develops an accessible model for refugee HE preparation: the OMNI - Open, Multimodal, Narratively based, Inclusive – process that is transferrable across refugee, educational and transnational contexts.

• Co-written by authors from refugee backgrounds

• Social justice-oriented, anti-racist approach to higher education, seen through the lens of forced migration, critical race theory, feminism, decoloniality and transformative pedagogy

This book offers an interdisciplinary holistic analysis of refugees’ and forced migrants’ paths towards higher education (HE).

Co-authored with writers from refugee backgrounds, it documents over a decade of HE programmes’ experiences in the United Kingdom, France, Jordan and Lebanon.

It offers a new theoretical understanding of educational bordering and de-bordering practices – political, socio-economic, psychosocial and epistemic – guided by a social justice-oriented, anti-racist, refugee-centred approach.

Introducing the OMNI – Open, Multimodal, Narrative-based, Inclusive – framework as a means to act for refugees’ educational justice, this vital work provides a transferable best practice model for educational institutions, NGOs and policy makers.

Introduction

1. Refugees’ Access to Higher Education: Setting the Scene - with Mohammed Abdulhafedh

2. The Bordering and De-bordering of Refugees’ Higher Education Access - with Jessica Oddy and Amir Raki

3. The OMNI model - with Erica Masserano and Jessica Oddy

4. The ‘Life Stories’ Courses, 2015–2025 - with Fatima Abaiji, Abdullahi Abdi, Mohammed Abdulhafedh, Hashmat Akbar and Badiru Olabuyi Olanrewaju

5. The Open Learning Initiative - with Yeşim Deveci, Janellen Harriman, Erica Masserano, Holly Rooke, and Francesca Ruzzetta

6. De-bordering Higher Education for Forced Migrants in Digital Spaces: Digital Storytelling and Literacy - with Israel Esenowo and Jessica Oddy

Conclusion