Structural Factors Associated with Higher Education Access for First-Generation Refugees in Canada: An Agenda for Research
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Literature review of structural barriers to higher education access for refugees in Canada, closing with a research agenda; the substantive object is refugee educational access rather than research practice, although its gap analysis and critique of aggregate immigrant categories edge toward the boundary.
This review concerns refugees' access to higher education, not how research is conducted or evaluated.
Agenda paper on refugees’ access to tertiary education; student access, not the research workforce or research practice.
Abstract
Refugees are the least educated migrants upon arrival to Canada. Yet, they invest in Canadian higher education at lower rates than other newcomers. Why might this be? This paper enters this emergent conversation through a review of the Canadian-based empirical literature on the structural factors associated with refugees’ tertiary education access. Research indicates that as part of the low-income population, refugees are likely to misperceive the cost and benefits of higher education and be deterred by high tuition costs. Academic preparedness and tracking in high schools also pose additional constraints. The gap in the literature exposes a need for inquiry into the ways in which pre-arrival experiences influence refugees’ participation in Canada’s post-secondary institutions. The paper concludes by underscoring the need for qualitative research that discerns the lived experiences of refugees outside of the aggregate immigrant grouping typical in education research.
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- Venue
- Refuge Canada s Journal on Refuge
- Topic
- Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
- Field
- Social Sciences
- Canadian institutions
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- Keywords
- RefugeeImmigrationPreparednessPolitical scienceEconomic growthHigher educationQualitative researchPopulationDemographic economicsPublic relationsSociologyEconomicsSocial scienceDemography
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