[Fdu] Access to Higher Education for Refugees and Precarious Migrants: Thurs Feb 8, 12:00-2:00pm Founders College Senior Common Room (Room 305)

[Cynthia Wright]

***This event is part of *York University Refugee Awareness Week 2018*, 
details are available at www.yorku.ca/refugees 
<http://www.yorku.ca/refugees>(and an up to the minute schedule is 
available at https://www.facebook.com/events/1778809858860333/ 
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1778809858860333/>) ***


*Creating Pathways and Crossing Borders: *

*Access to Higher Education for Refugees and Precarious Migrants*

Thursday, February 8^th , 2018

12:00-2:00pm
Founders College Senior Common Room (Room 305)

Critical border scholars have argued that borders are ideological 
constructs with material consequences that exist not only as boundaries 
between countries, but also act to limit rights and entitlements for 
many within them (e.g. Anderson, Sharma, and Wright, Refuge Journal, 
2009). These are reflected in refugee camps and in barriers to refugee 
resettlement and higher education for refugees and others with 
precarious migration status both locally and globally.

This *York U 2018 Refugee Awareness Week panel* features three York 
affiliated initiatives working to facilitate access to higher education 
for refugees and others with precarious status within and across 
borders, from Kenya, Malawi, Jordan, Lebanon and Toronto, Canada. These 
speakers, representing *the **Borderless Higher Education for Refugees 
(BHER) Project* <http://www.bher.org/>, the *World University Service of 
Canada* 
<https://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/refugees/wusc-refugee-sponsorship/>and 
York University’s new *Access for Students with Precarious Immigration 
Status Program* 
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canadian-dreamers-york-university-1.4488252>seek 
to generate awareness and foster dialogue about global and local 
realities of access to higher education as well as the role the York 
University community has, is, and can play in addressing these 
challenges in a manner consistent with and advancing its social justice 
and accessible education mandate.

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*TOPICS/SPEAKERS:*
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*1: Access to Higher Education for Refugees in Dadaab, Kenya: The 
Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) Project*
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Aida Orgocka, BHER Project Manager

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*2: Resettling Refugee Students: The World University Service of Canada 
(National and York University Campuses)*
*
Chiedza Pasipanodya, WUSC Ottawa – Regional Liaison Officer
Myriame Flurisca WUSC Glendon
Robert Hanlon, WUSC Keele – Chairman
Aelya Salman, WUSC Keele – Student Refugee Program Coordinator

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*3) York University’s Access for Students With Precarious Immigration 
Status Program*
*
Tanya Aberman, Research and Program Coordinator, FCJ Refugee Centre and 
York U Access for Students With Precarious Immigration Status Program

*Discussant: Professor Luin Goldring, Department of Sociology, York 
University*


*Panel Chair and Co-Organizer (with WUSC Keele Campus Committee):*John 
Carlaw, Project Lead, York University Syria Response and Refugee Initiative

Event Contact: John Carlaw refugees at yorku.ca <mailto:refugees at yorku.ca>


This panel is organized by York’s local World University Service of 
Canada Committees and Syria Response and Refugee Initiative as part of 
Refugee Awareness Week 2018. Thank you to the Centre for Refugee Studies 
and Founders College for support with this activity.

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*Refugee Awareness Week 2018 fromFebruary 5th to 9this a collaborative 
initiative of a coalition of York University student groups and 
supporting departments working on refugee issues and advocacy. It is 
meant so promote education and engagement in this field.*
*

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*FB page for this event: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/329919014172753/ 
<https://www.facebook.com/events/329919014172753/>*



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