Opening Up the University

Céline Cantat is Academic Advisor at the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po. Previously she was a Research Fellow at Sciences Po Paris, working on H2020 project MAGYC focused on migration governance and the production of crisis, a Marie Curie Individual Fellow at Central European University (CEU) with a project on migration solidarity initiatives, and Academic Program Manager at the Open Learning Initiative (OLIve), an initiative that focuses on opening access to higher education for refugees and asylum seekers.

Acknowledgements

List of illustrations



Introduction

Céline Cantat, Ian M. Cook and Prem Kumar Rajaram



Part I: Academic Displacements



Chapter 1. The Refugee Outsider and the Active European Citizen: European Migration and Higher Education Policies and the Production of Belonging and Non-Belonging  

Prem Kumar Rajaram



Chapter 2. The Double Bind of Academic Freedom: Reflections from the UK and Venezuela  

Mariya P. Ivancheva



Chapter 3. Rethinking Universities: A Reflection on the University’s Role in Fostering Refugees’ Inclusion

Rosa Di Stefano and Benedetta Cassani



Chapter 4. The 2016/2017 Turn Towards Authoritarian Pressures on Academics

Leyla Safta-Zecheria



Chapter 5. The Politics of University Access and Refugee Higher Education Programmes Can the Contemporary University be Opened?

Céline Cantat



Part II: Re-Learning Teaching



Chapter 6. Can We Think about how to Improve the World?’ Designing Curricula with Refugee Students

Mwenza Blell, Josie McLellan, Richard Pettigrew and Tom Sperlinger



Chapter 7. Experts by Experience: The Scope and Limits of Collaborative Pedagogy with Marginalized Asylum Seekers

Rubina Jasani, Jack López, Yamusu Nyang, Angie D., Dudu Mango, Rudo Mwoyoweshumba and Shamim Afhsan



Chapter 8. What Happens to a Story? En/countering Imaginative Humanitarian Ethnography in the Classroom

Erin Goheen Glanville



Chapter 9. Digital Literacy for Refugees in the United Kingdom

Israel Princewill Esenowo



Chapter 10. Insider Views on English Language Pathway Programmes to Australian Universities  

Victoria Wilson, Homeira Babaei, Merna Dolmai and Suhail Sawa



Chapter 11. Enacting Inclusion and Citizenship through Pedagogical Staff Development

Luisa Bunescu



Chapter 12. Focus Pulled to Hungary: Case Study of the OLIve Participatory Video Workshop

Klára Trencsényi and Jeremy Braverman



Part III: Debordering the University



Chapter 13. Fuck Prestige


Ian M. Cook



Chapter 14. Reimagining Language in Higher Education: Engaging with the Linguistic Experiences of Students with Refugee and Asylum Seeker Backgrounds

Rachel Burke



Chapter 15. Our Voice 

Kutaiba Al Hussein and Akileo Mangeni



Chapter 16. “Where are the Refugees?”: The Paradox of Asylum in Everyday Institutional Life in the Modern Academy and the Space-Time Banalities of Exception

Kolar Aparna, Olivier Thomas Kramsch and Oumar Kande



Chapter 17. The Importance of the Locality in Opening Universities to Refugee Students

Ester Gallo, Barbara Poggio and Paola Bodio



Chapter 18. Strategies Against Everyday Bordering in Universities: The Open Learning Initiatives

Aura Lounasmaa, Erica Masserano, Michelle Harewood and Jessica Oddy



Afterword

John Clarke