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“When I Am a President of Guinea”: Resettled Refugees Traversing Education in Search of a Future

This article explores how resettled refugees’ aspirations cultivated through education collide with post-schooling realities. We find that post-graduation barriers of financial insecurity, housing insecurity, violence and discrimination, and lack of critical awareness of unequal opportunity structures stand in the way of resettlement aspirations. We discuss how teachers and schools might be re-tooled to equip refugee students with more and different skills to navigate post-graduation situations.

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References

Dryden-Peterson, S.& Reddick, C.(2017). “When I Am a President of Guinea”: Resettled Refugees Traversing Education in Search of a Future. European Education 49 (4) (October 2):253–275

Displacement, HR, School
discrimination education insecurity post-graduation resettled refugees students unequal opportunities violence

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Innovation Council and the Executive Agency (State Scholarship Foundation-IKY). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.