De-Bordering Higher Education - by Giorgia Donà & Aura Lounasmaa & Corinne Squire Hardcover

Book Synopsis

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 OMNI - Open, Multimodal, Narratively based, Inclusive - framework as a means to act for refugees' educational justice, this vital work provides a transferrable best practice model for educational institutions, NGOs and policymakers.

About the Author

Giorgia Donà 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 a 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.