Rethinking skills development and entrepreneurship for refugees: The case of five refugee communities in India

Dagar, Preeti

doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2023.102834

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“…The Indian context is particularly compelling since the country receives a significant number of refugees from all over the world without being a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol (Dagar, 2023;Samaddar, 2003). The UNHCR (2021) recently estimated that there are 20,000 refugees in India.…”

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“…Alongside these different aspirations, a few scholars (Bellino, 2021;Morrice et al, 2020) have highlighted the gap between aspirations and available educational opportunities. For instance, while many refugees would be interested in learning IT and business skills (Kofman et al, 2007;Sargeant & Forna, 2001), studies (Nawyn, 2010;Shiferaw & Hagos, 2001) have found that training opportunities were only available in language skills, retail, catering, crafts, hairdressing, and so on, limiting refugees to low-skilled work (Dagar, 2023;Knappert et al, 2018). Morrice et al (2020) reported that only language courses were available for adult refugees, and their educational opportunities were limited.…”

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Building sustainable and decent refugee livelihoods through adult education? Interplay between policies and realities of five refugee groups

Dagar

2023

British Educational Res J

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Most of the world's refugees live in Global South countries, where they struggle to find quality education and opportunities for decent livelihoods. This paper explores the underexamined yet highly relevant interlinkage between sustainable livelihoods and adult learning among urban refugees residing in three major cities in India. It speaks to the tight intersection of education, livelihoods and aspirations of five refugee communities: Afghan, Rohingya, Somali, Chin and Tibetan. Building on interviews, focus groups and participatory drawing sessions involving 66 refugee and staff respondents, the study highlights the refugees' extremely limited learning opportunities, which result in low skills and being forced to take discriminatory and undignified work in the informal sector. By integrating the capabilities approach with sustainable livelihoods, the paper argues for more diverse educational opportunities and a broader understanding of refugee livelihoods that goes beyond pure economics to encompass consideration of freedom and human dignity.

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Building sustainable and decent refugee livelihoods through adult education? Interplay between policies and realities of five refugee groups

Dagar

2023

British Educational Res J

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The Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh: assessing the impact on land use patterns and land surface temperature using machine learning

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Alam,

Saha

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Environ Monit Assess

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The Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh: Assessing the Impact on Land Use Patterns and Land Surface Temperature Using Machine Learning

Ahmed,

Alam,

Saha

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Bangladesh, a third-world country with the 7th highest population density in the world, has always struggled to ensure its residents' basic needs. But in recent years, the country is going through a serious humanitarian and financial crisis that has been imposed by the neighboring country Myanmar which has forced the government to shelter almost a million Rohingya refugees in less than 3 years (2017–2020). The government had no other option but to acquire almost 24.1 km2 of forest areas only to construct refugee camps for the Rohingyas which has led to catastrophic environmental outcomes. This study has analyzed the land use and land surface temperature pattern change of the Rohingya camp area for the course of 1997 to 2022 with a 5 years interval rate. Future prediction of the land use and temperature of Teknaf and Ukhiya was also done in this process using a Machine Learning algorithm for the years 2028 and 2034. The analysis says that in the camp area, from 1997 to 2017 percentage of settlements increased from 5.28–11.91% but in 2022 it reached 70.09%. The same drastically changing trend has also been observed in the land surface temperature analysis. In the month of January, the average temperature increased from 18.860 C to 21.310 C between 1997 and 2017. But in 2022 it was found that the average temperature had increased up to 25.940 C in only a blink of an eye. The future prediction of land use also doesn’t have anything pleasing in store.

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Rethinking skills development and entrepreneurship for refugees: The case of five refugee communities in India

Cited by 4 publications

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Building sustainable and decent refugee livelihoods through adult education? Interplay between policies and realities of five refugee groups

Building sustainable and decent refugee livelihoods through adult education? Interplay between policies and realities of five refugee groups

The Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh: assessing the impact on land use patterns and land surface temperature using machine learning

The Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh: Assessing the Impact on Land Use Patterns and Land Surface Temperature Using Machine Learning

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