Education, Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Lala Demirdjian is a researcher focusing on the Palestinian refugee education in Lebanon. She has worked as a consultant for The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Lebanon, and the National Association for Vocational Training and Social Services (NAVTSS) and, as a campaign coordinator, for the Welfare Association, Lebanon. She is currently engaged in a Teacher Exchange Program and teaches in a community school, in Boston, USA.

‘A very timely book. With social/political convulsions taking place more frequently in Third World countries these last two decades, the number of refugees and asylum seekers is on the rise. This makes it incumbent upon educators and policy makers to give more attention to the needs of this special category of people. The more we understand what these needs are, across the different countries and cases, the more likely that our help and assistance will become meaningful. This book and the cases it reports are a significant contribution in this direction.' Munir Bashshur, Professor of Education, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

• Series Editor's Preface Colin Brock; Introduction: Education, Refugees and Asylum Seekers - A Global Overview Lala Demirdjian; 1. The Educational Life Histories of a Group of North Korean Defector University Students in South Korea Candice Kay Lee; 2. Refugee education in Thailand: displacement, dislocation and disjuncture Su-Ann Oh; 3. The Provision of Education in the Palestinian Refugee Camps, in Lebanon Lala Demirdjian; 4. Non-Formal Education as a Means of Supporting the Well-Being of Resettled Refugees: Case Studies of Community Approaches in Denver, Colorado, USA Janet Shriberg, Susan Downs-Karkos, Stacey Weisberg; 5. Refugees and Education in Kent, England James Dada; 6. Century Learning: the role of community cohesion in refugee education Megan McCorriston; Conclusion.