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    Enabling access to higher education for people seeking asylum: a collective approach

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    Authors
    Fleay, Caroline
    Abbas
    Mumtaz, Ghulam
    Vaikili, Mehdi
    Nasrullah
    Hartley, Lisa
    Offord, Baden
    Macfarlane, Christopher
    Sayer, Rosemary
    Date
    2019
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Fleay, C. and Abbas and Mumtaz, G. and Vaikili, M. and Nasrullah and Hartley, L. and Offord, B. et al. 2019. Enabling access to higher education for people seeking asylum: a collective approach. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning. 21 (2): pp. 168-189.
    Source Title
    Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning
    DOI
    10.5456/WPLL.21.2.168
    ISSN
    1466-6529
    Faculty
    Faculty of Humanities
    School
    School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82089
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    In response to Australian policies that impose punitive barriers to resettlement on many people seeking asylum, a range of civil society groups have initiated acts of welcome and inclusion, including some within universities. Denied permanent protection even when found to be a refugee, people who arrived from 13 August 2012 are forced to remain in limbo and many are effectively excluded from accessing higher education. A collective of people seeking asylum, academics, students and community members in Perth, Western Australia, has responded by working together on higher education projects that seek to open up the university to people seeking asylum. In this article, members of the collective critically reflect on these projects and their involvement. Its key aim is to demonstrate the importance of lived experience and collaboration in developing and enabling higher education possibilities for refugees and asylum seekers.

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