State-Based Policy Supports for Refugee, Asylee, and TPS-Background Students in US Higher Education
Higher education for displaced students is rarely the focus of academic literature in the context of the United States, despite 79.5 million people displaced worldwide as of December 2019 and 3 million refugees resettled in the United States since the 1970s (UNHCR, 2020). An estimated 95,000 Afghan...
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Higher education for displaced students is rarely the focus of academic literature in the context of the United States, despite 79.5 million people displaced worldwide as of December 2019 and 3 million refugees resettled in the United States since the 1970s (UNHCR, 2020). An estimated 95,000 Afghans will be resettled in the US by September 2022, and the executive branch has requested $6.4 billion in funds from Congress to support this resettlement process (Young, 2021). This represents the most concentrated resettlement in the US since the end of the Vietnam War. It is therefore clear that policy supports for displaced students represent a pressing educational equity issue. This paper applies critical policy analysis to state-level policies supporting displaced students and argues that both data gaps and policy silence characterize the current state of play.
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| spelling | doaj.art-576a4efed7544738ad586ec149f3fc612023-10-23T15:39:26ZengYork University LibrariesRefuge0229-51131920-73362022-04-0138110.25071/1920-7336.40819State-Based Policy Supports for Refugee, Asylee, and TPS-Background Students in US Higher EducationLisa Unangst0Ishara Casellas Connors1Nicole Barone2Gladys W. & David H. Patton College of Education, Ohio UniversityTexas A&M University, Washington, D.C.Graduate School of Education, Harvard University Higher education for displaced students is rarely the focus of academic literature in the context of the United States, despite 79.5 million people displaced worldwide as of December 2019 and 3 million refugees resettled in the United States since the 1970s (UNHCR, 2020). An estimated 95,000 Afghans will be resettled in the US by September 2022, and the executive branch has requested $6.4 billion in funds from Congress to support this resettlement process (Young, 2021). This represents the most concentrated resettlement in the US since the end of the Vietnam War. It is therefore clear that policy supports for displaced students represent a pressing educational equity issue. This paper applies critical policy analysis to state-level policies supporting displaced students and argues that both data gaps and policy silence characterize the current state of play. https://refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/refuge/article/view/40819critical policy analysispost-secondary educationmigrationdisplacementtuitioncollege access |
| spellingShingle | Lisa Unangst Ishara Casellas Connors Nicole Barone State-Based Policy Supports for Refugee, Asylee, and TPS-Background Students in US Higher Education Refuge critical policy analysis post-secondary education migration displacement tuition college access |
| title | State-Based Policy Supports for Refugee, Asylee, and TPS-Background Students in US Higher Education |
| title_full | State-Based Policy Supports for Refugee, Asylee, and TPS-Background Students in US Higher Education |
| title_fullStr | State-Based Policy Supports for Refugee, Asylee, and TPS-Background Students in US Higher Education |
| title_full_unstemmed | State-Based Policy Supports for Refugee, Asylee, and TPS-Background Students in US Higher Education |
| title_short | State-Based Policy Supports for Refugee, Asylee, and TPS-Background Students in US Higher Education |
| title_sort | state based policy supports for refugee asylee and tps background students in us higher education |
| topic | critical policy analysis post-secondary education migration displacement tuition college access |
| url | https://refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/refuge/article/view/40819 |
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