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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.
Giorgia Doná is Professor of Forced Migration and Co-Director of the Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London.
Aura Lounasmaa is Postdoctoral Researcher and Vice Chair at the Narrare Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies at Tampere University, and Co-Director of the Association of Narrative Research and Practice.
Corinne Squire is Chair in Global Inequalities at the School of Social Policy at the University of Bristol, Co-Director of the Association of Narrative Research and Practice and Co-Coordinator of the OLIve programme.
Introduction
1. Refugees’ Access to Higher Education: Setting the Scene
2. The Bordering and De-bordering of Refugees’ Higher Education Access
3. The OMNI model
4. The ‘Life Stories’ Courses, 2015–2025
5. The Open Learning Initiative
6. De-bordering Higher Education for Forced Migrants in Digital Spaces: Digital Storytelling and Literacy
Conclusion