Education, Refugees and Asylum Seekers

The series is based on the notion that education that addresses the needs of the neediest people around the world will also serve the more fortunate best. Specialists in migration and refugees and in intercultural learning and psychology discuss a global overview of education, refugees, and asylum seekers; the educational life histories of a group of North Korean defector university students in South Korea; refugee education in Thailand: displacement, dislocation, and disjuncture; the provision of education in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon; non-formal education as a means of supporting the well-being of resettled refugees: case studies of community approaches in Denver, Colorado; refugees and education in Kent in England; and the role of community cohesion in refugee education. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Lala Demirdjian is a researcher focusing on the Palestinian refugee education in Lebanon. She has worked as a consultant for The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Lebanon, and the National Association for Vocational Training and Social Services (NAVTSS) and, as a campaign coordinator, for the Welfare Association, Lebanon. She is currently engaged in a Teacher Exchange Program and teaches in a community school, in Boston, USA.