Les universités britanniques et leur rapport au monde : les enjeux de l’internationalisation de la population étudiante

Revisiting the Issues of Access to Higher Education and Social Stratification through the Case of Refugees: A Comparative Study of Spaces of Opportunity for Refugee Students in Germany and England

“…Accordingly, the main material for this desk-based research consists of primary sources, namely institutional written discourse outlining immigration, welfare, and access to HE policies in Germany and in England: they include reports, policy briefs or guidelines from institutional organisms providing official data or outlining procedures in any of these three domains (e.g., BAMF Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, Federal Office for Migration and Refugees; Higher Education Funding Council for England 2018; Home Office 2017; Lisbon Recognition Convention Committee 2017; Migration Observatory 2017; TestAS 2016; OECD 2017a, 2017b; United Nations Data 2018a, 2018b; Universities UK 2016b). We also drew on secondary documents which provide guidance to students and refugees for navigating the German or English access to HE, asylum and welfare systems (e.g., Refugee Council 2013, 2018a, 2018b; Refugee Support Network 2012; UK Council for International Student Affairs 2015): these documents, along with the (fairly limited but slowly developing) refugee access to HE literature (e.g. Zeiter-Grau and Goastellec 2017), and different non-academic sources such as NGOs, legal institutions, associations or the media (e.g., Barrons 2018; Law Library of Congress 2016; Pew Research Centre 2016; University World News 2018), allowed us to gain insights into the experience of asylum seekers with aspirations for HE.…”

“…In early 21st century England, immigration policies aimed at slowing down the steady growth in immigration numbers: between 2005 and 2017, the "international migrant stock" increased from 5,926,200 to 8,543,100 (United Nations Data 2018a), which led to significant public discontent. In 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron declared that he wished to reduce net immigration "to the tens of thousands," including asylum seekers, and the subsequent governments followed suit (Détourbe 2018b). This policy led to a significant drop in the number of "refugees and others of concern to UNHCR:" they were almost divided by two between 2005 and 2017, from 316,600 to 151,700 (ibid.).…”

Understanding networks of actors involved in refugee access to higher education in Canada, England and France

“…In this context, opportunities of access to higher education for asylum seekers and refugees in England have become rather bleak, despite efforts by the Office for Fair Access (OFFA) to widen access internally to under represented groups in the domestic population. Depending on the asylum status they are granted (Refugee, Temporary Leave to Remain, Humanitarian Protection), tuition fees and welfare support vary (Détourbe 2018). Students in a refugeelike situation therefore mostly depend on higher education in stitutions' targeted programmes to enter higher education: local programmes like COMPASS at Birkbeck College, University of London, nationwide initia tives led by universities like the University of Sanctuary network or by chari ties like the Refugee Support Network provide various means of supporting refugee students and easing access.…”