Refugee Education ― Integration and Acceptance of Refugees in Mainstream Society

Thisvolume examines how universities and colleges are working towards implementing variousinterventions to integrate refugees along with non-governmental organizationsand local governments to achieve an optimal level of integration withhost communities. The first part of the volume addresses the challenges of educating and integrating refugee populations, while the second part considers methods for establishing support systems. Using case studies and other empirical research, this volume presents a broad and in-depth overview of the various methods implemented to integrate the refugees into society. The international case studies reveal the complexity of the perception-practice dynamic and the multi-faceted factors that influence various levels of integration.

Enakshi Sengupta is Dean of the College of Business at the AmericanUniversity of Kurdistan, Iraq. She is a senior editor of the Journal of AppliedResearch in Higher Education, and she serves as the vice chairof the Editorial Advisory Board for the Innovation in Higher Education Teachingand Learning series.