TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract This chapter’s focus is on the disparate factors that are affecting higher education students that by circumstance not of their making are both displaced and seeking refuge within the fields of continuing their higher education. The fear of losing a young educated generation that can be part of the reconciliation process of the country in the post-conflict era has become close to reality, especially in Syria and in the neighbouring countries where the lost possibility of Syrian refugees’ returning to Syria is higher than other places. We have organized this chapter into three parts. The first part explores the history of higher education for Syrians with emphasis on the last half century. The second part describes the theoretical underpinnings of those displaced in today’s social political context through the lenses of Foucault and Maslow. The third part discusses a specific case study: the challenges Syrian students are facing in Lebanon, focusing on specific policies such as online education as a viable tool for serving displaced students, legal documents and the lack thereof, ability to get scholarships, policies and laws to understand.
SN  - 978-1-78756-044-4, 978-1-78756-045-1/
DO  - 10.1108/978-1-78756-044-420191011
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-044-420191011
AU  - Al-Abdullah Yahya
AU  - Papa Rosemary
ED  - Khalid Arar
ED  - Jeffrey S. Brooks
ED  - Ira Bogotch
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Higher Education for Displaced Syrian Refugees: The Case of Lebanon
T2  - Education, Immigration and Migration
T3  - Studies in Educational Administration
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 169
EP  - 189
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -