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Higher education as a complementary pathway to protection for Afghan students: historical and current experiences, and thoughts for the future

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posted on 2023-06-10, 04:01 authored by Ceri OeppenCeri Oeppen, Tahir Zaman
Third-country education as a complementary pathway to protection is an area of refugee policy that has expanded under the Global Compact on Refugees. This paper explores the possibilities of higher (tertiary) education as a pathway to protection for Afghan students and provides an opportunity to share some personal reflections on the events of August and September 2021 in relation to Afghans set to study in the United Kingdom under the Chevening Scholarship programme, which highlights some of the challenges of using training programmes as a route to refugee protection. The authors suggest that education is a possible pathway to protection for a small subset of Afghans, in practice implementation is complex and often ad hoc, and it should not be used by Western governments as a political justification for eroding or erasing other routes to protection.

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  • Published

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Journal

Migration Policy Practice

ISSN

2223-5248

Publisher

IOM Publications Platform

Issue

4

Volume

XI

Page range

15-21

Pages

7.0

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  • Geography Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Sussex Centre for Migration Research Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • No

Legacy Posted Date

2022-06-23

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2022-06-23

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2022-06-20

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