{"product_id":"borderless-higher-education-for-refugees-9781350151239","title":"Borderless Higher Education for Refugees","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 CIES Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award\u003c\/b\u003eHigher education is increasingly recognized as crucial for the livelihoods of refugees and displaced populations caught in emergencies and protracted crises, to enable them to engage in contemporary, knowledge-based, global society. This book tells the story of the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) project which delivers tuition-free university degree programs into two of the largest protracted refugee camps in the world, Dadaab and Kakuma in Kenya. Combining a human rights approaches, critical humanitarianism and a concern with gender relations and intersecting inequalities, the book proposes that higher education can provide refugees with the possibility of staying put or returning home with dignity. Written by academics based in Canada, Kenya, Somalia and the USA, as well as NGO workers and students from the camps, the book demonstrates how North-South and South-South collaborations are possible and indee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book provides an honest and highly reflective account of the design and implementation of a higher education in emergencies project. The BHER story is told with a degree of humbleness and modesty regarding the inherently problematic initiative of a Northern\/Western University to bring together a consortium\/partnership with universities in the South and how it successfully navigated unequal power relations and neo-colonial patterns of thinking and acting. * Barbara Moser-Mercer, Visiting Professor, University of Nairobi, Kenya *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction, \u003ci\u003eWenona Giles, Lorrie Miller, Philemon Misoy, Norah Kariba, Okello Mark Oyat\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: Putting a Project into Action\u003c\/b\u003e 1. Historical and Political Contestations in the Dadaab Refugee Camps and North-Eastern Kenya, \u003ci\u003eMohamed Duale, Esther Munene, and Marangu Njogu\u003c\/i\u003e  2. Gender Disparities in University Access in the Kenyan Kakuma Camps, \u003ci\u003eDanielle Bishop, Hanan Duri, and Grace Nshimiyumukiza\u003c\/i\u003e  3. The Challenges of Reciprocity and Relative Autonomy in North\/South Partnerships, \u003ci\u003eJosephine Gitome and Don Dippo\u003c\/i\u003e  4. Development of a Community Health Education Degree Programme through a North-South Collaboration: Lessons Learned, \u003ci\u003eF. Beryl Pilkington and Isabella I. Mbai\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: Students and Teachers: Inside the BHER Supported Classroom\u003c\/b\u003e  5. Refugees Respond: Using Digital Tools, Networks and ‘Production Pedagogies’ to Envision Possible Futures, \u003ci\u003eAbdikadir Abikar, Abdullahi Aden, Kurt Thumlert, Negin Dahya, Jennifer Jenson\u003c\/i\u003e 6. Technology and Flexibility: The On-line Learning Experience of Teaching Assistants and their Students in the Dadaab Refugee Camps, \u003ci\u003eHawa Sabriye, Dacia Douhaibi, with contributions from Arte Dagane and Ochan Leomoi\u003c\/i\u003e  7. Out of Bounds: The BHER Bones of Teaching Geography Across Borders, \u003ci\u003eMegan Youdelis, Dacia Douhaibi, Devin Holterman, Kamal Paudel, Valerie Preston, Tarmo K. Remmel, Elizabeth Lunstrum, Joseph Mensah\u003c\/i\u003e  8. Academic Philanthropy and Pedagogies of Resilience, \u003ci\u003eLorrie Miller, Graham Lea, Rita Irwin, Samson Nashon, Elizabeth Jordan, Kimberly Baker, Espen Stranger-Johannessen\u003c\/i\u003e  9. Refugee Students’ Experience of Accessing English Language Learning in Dadaab, Kenya, \u003ci\u003eHaEun Kim, Nombuso Dlamini, Dahabo Ibrahim, Seraphin Kimonyo, and Johanna Reynolds\u003c\/i\u003e  10. A Gallery to Rethink and Re-place the Anthropocene: Framing From A Place-based Borderless Higher Education, \u003ci\u003eSteve Alsop and Roxanne Cohen\u003c\/i\u003e Afterword, \u003ci\u003eFouzia Warsame, the Dean of Education, Somali National University, Mogadishu\u003c\/i\u003e References Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738596094295,"sku":"9781350151239","price":25.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350151239.jpg?v=1720049597","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/borderless-higher-education-for-refugees-9781350151239","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}