Access to Higher Education: Refugees' Stories from Malaysia

Author: Lucy Bailey and Gül Ïnanç
Publisher: Routledge
Year of Publication: 2019
Print Length: 196 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Social Science, Educational Theory and Practices, Migration & Refugee Studies
Area: Malaysia
Topic: Education, Higher Education, Inclusive Education, Inclusivity, Refugees & Forced Migration, Asylum & Asylum Seekers, Asylum & Refugee System, Lived Experience
Until 2015, no refugees in Malaysia were able to access higher education, and they were unable to attend government schooling. Since then, six private higher education institutions have agreed to open their doors to refugees for the first time.
This book contains stories from this small group of successful refugees, who have managed to receive higher education in a country that neither recognizes that they exist nor offers them even basic education. It identifies the factors that aided their success, and charts the challenges that they and their communities have faced. The authors present each story, based on interviews, within the context of the individual’s background and nation of origin. These stories are framed by a discussion of the situation that refugees face in accessing education globally, explaining how these stories and the methodologies used for this study are universal.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
PART 1. Introduction by Gül Ïnanç
Introduction: Setting the scene
PART 2. Refugees’ stories by Lucy Bailey
1. Zaid — Rakhine State
2. Peter — Chin State
3. Maran — Kachin State
4. Andrew — Chin State
5. Nyan Hongsa — Mon State
6. Matthew — Chin State
7. Omran — Syria
8. Bethany — Pakistan
9. Amaal — Somalia
10. Nurain — Sri Lanka
11. Jamilah — Somalia
12. Omar — Iraq
13. Dalir — Iran
PART 3. Analysis and conclusion by Lucy Bailey
Appendix I
Appendix II
Appendix III
Index

Lucy Bailey is Associate Professor and Head of Education Studies at the Bahrain Teachers College in the University of Bahrain. She was previously an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham Malaysia, where she was Director of their Programme for Widening Access to Higher Education. She has also written extensively about the internationalisation of education, including studies of various aspects of international schooling, the internationalisation of higher education, and the schooling of students who are refugees or asylum seekers.
Source: https://www.humanmovement.cam.ac.uk/events/access-higher-education-refugees-and-asylum-seekers-malaysia
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Gül Ïnanç is a diplomatic historian of modern West Asia and published 3 books and several articles on modern Turkish diplomacy. Later her academic interest shifted to cultural heritage education for peace. She founded the global initiative of Opening Universities for Refugees (OUR) in 2015. Her recent publications include Access to Higher Education: Refugee Stories from Malaysia (co-authored) Routledge, 2018 and Forced Displacement and NGOs in Asia Pacific (co-ed), Routledge, 2022. She has received the Koh Boon Kwee Scholars Award in August 2016 for inspirational teaching at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where she served as a full-time faculty between 2012-2022. Dr. İnanç has recently co-led the global task force with UNHCR to change the language of Social Impact Rankings of Times Higher Education. She is currently based in Savannah, GA, and is offering an online course “Culture & Identity” under Bard College, OSUN for her students in Kakuma/Dadaab camps, Kenya.
Source: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/education/research/research-centres-and-units/the-centre-for-asia-pacific-refugee-studies-/our-people-/gul-inanc.html
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