Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Sanaa Ashour: "Access for Syrian refugees into higher education in Germany: a systematic literature review"

“Access for Syrian refugees into higher education in Germany: a systematic
literature review”

Prof. Dr. Sanaa Ashour, Visiting Professor at Institute of Sociology at TU-Dresden;
Professor of Sociology and the Director of Applied Sociology Program at Al Ain University,
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

In the early years of the twenty-first century, the European Union faced an influx of
refugees from war-torn areas of the world. By the end of 2015, nearly a million new
refugees had arrived in Germany alone, half of them from Syria. Understanding
how the Syrian refugee population has interacted with the German system of higher
education is crucial for serving those students. This systematic review of studies
published on this topic between 2015 and 2020 discusses the challenges
experienced by Syrian refugee students accessing German higher education, the
support they have received from German higher education institutions (HEIs), and
policy reforms recommended by the studies reviewed for managing the influx of
refugees into German higher education. The research offers a synthesis of the
contributions and gaps in the literature and propose thoughts for future research in
this area for advancing our knowledge on the experiences of refugee students in
accessing HE and easing their integration into HEIs, to the benefit of the
internationalization of Germany’s HEIs and the country’s labor market.
Discussion could be extended to include comparisons between the support
provided to Syrian refugees and the treatment of Ukrainian refugees.

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