IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/oec/eduaab/203-en.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Refugee education: Integration models and practices in OECD countries

Author

Listed:
  • Lucie Cerna

    (OECD)

Abstract

The recent refugee crisis has put many OECD countries under considerable pressure to accommodate and integrate large numbers of refugees. Refugee students are a particularly vulnerable group due to their forced displacement, but their needs are not always met by education systems, which can hinder the integration potential of these students. This poses considerable challenges as the integration of refugee students in education systems is important for their academic outcomes as well as their social and emotional well-being. The success (or lack of) integration in schools can also affect the future labour market and social integration potential of these children and youth. While there is a growing body of research on the integration of immigrants, policy-relevant research on refugee children and youth from an educational perspective is rather limited, fragmented and case specific. Detailed surveys and research projects focusing on the current wave of refugees that allow for cross-country comparisons are not yet available. Drawing on research from previous refugee waves, the paper examines key needs of refugee students and factors that promote their integration. It proposes a holistic model of integration in education that responds to the learning, social and emotional needs of refugee students. Furthermore, the paper examines what type of policies and practices are in place in OECD countries that support the integration of refugee students. Nonetheless, evaluations of practices and policies are often missing, which makes it difficult to assess whether they are successful. The paper finishes with some policy pointers on how to promote the integration of refugee students.

Suggested Citation

  • Lucie Cerna, 2019. "Refugee education: Integration models and practices in OECD countries," OECD Education Working Papers 203, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:eduaab:203-en
    DOI: 10.1787/a3251a00-en
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1787/a3251a00-en
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1787/a3251a00-en?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Marta Simo Sanchez & Tamar Shuali Tachtenberg & Carmen Carmona Rodriguez & Miriam Prieto Ejido & Victoria Tenreiro Rodriguez & María Jimenez Delgado & Clara Centeno, 2020. "Addressing educational needs of teachers in the EU for inclusive education in a context of diversity (Inno4Div), Volume 2 - Literature review on key enabling components of teachers' intercultural and ," JRC Research Reports JRC122560, Joint Research Centre.
    2. Daiva Jakavonytė-Staškuvienė, 2023. "Models for Organising the Education of Ukrainian Children Who Have Fled the War in Lithuanian Municipalities: Psychological, Material, and Linguistic Support," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 12(6), pages 1-15, June.
    3. Petros Xepapadeas & Ioannis Mourtos, 2022. "Refugee allocation mechanisms: theory and applications for the European Union," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 22(4), pages 4557-4584, September.
    4. Md. Reza Habib & Arnab Roy Chowdhury & Artem Uldanov, 2024. "Creating Pathways to Opportunity: Non-formal Educational ‘Inclusion’ for Rohingya Refugee Children in Bangladesh," Journal of South Asian Development, , vol. 19(1), pages 61-82, April.
    5. Mohammad Hammoud & Maha Shuayb & Maurice Crul, 2022. "Determinants of Refugee Children’s Social Integration: Evidence from Lebanon, Turkey, and Australia," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 11(12), pages 1-15, November.
    6. Ioanna Katsounari & Phivos Phylactou & Helena Heracleous, 2021. "Determinants of Non-Performing Loans in Greece: the intricate role of fiscal expansion," GreeSE – Hellenic Observatory Papers on Greece and Southeast Europe 161, Hellenic Observatory, LSE.
    7. Tumen, Semih & Vlassopoulos, Michael & Wahba, Jackline, 2021. "Training Teachers for Diversity Awareness: Impact on School Attendance of Refugee Children," IZA Discussion Papers 14557, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    8. Jennifer Edmonds & Antoine Flahault, 2021. "Refugees in Canada during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(3), pages 1-16, January.
    9. Maria Drolia & Eirini Sifaki & Stamatios Papadakis & Michail Kalogiannakis, 2020. "An Overview of Mobile Learning for Refugee Students: Juxtaposing Refugee Needs with Mobile Applications’ Characteristics," Challenges, MDPI, vol. 11(2), pages 1-14, December.
    10. Gilbert Tagne Safotso, 2020. "Internally Displaced and Refugee Students in Cameroon: Some Pedagogical Proposals," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 13(11), pages 140-140, November.

    More about this item

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oec:eduaab:203-en. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/deoecfr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.