Welcome to the November 2020 issue of Innovatus, a special issue of YFile that is devoted to teaching and learning innovation at 快播视频.
快播视频鈥檚 Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) Project, Faculty of Education and Centre for Refugee Studies present a monthly virtual colloquium series on the intersections of refugee education, anti-Black racism and COVID-19 in Canada and East Africa.
Dahabo Ibrahim, a master鈥檚 student in education at 快播视频鈥檚 campus in Dadaab, Kenya, is the inaugural recipient of the聽Centre for Refugee Studies鈥 (CRS) Anthony Richmond Scholarship.
Congratulations to Mohamed Duale, a PhD candidate at Faculty of Education, on being awarded the African and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) Dissertation Fellowship at Boston College for 2020-21. As one of the most competitive fellowships in the social sciences and humanities in the United States, the fellowship with a $30,000 stipend recognizes students who pursue innovative and interdisciplinary projects within the field of African and African Diaspora Studies.
Mark Okello Oyat and聽four聽of his fellow students at the Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya are waiting for the pandemic to wind down before celebrating their new master鈥檚 degrees in style, but the thrill is still present among the members of the first cohort of Dadaab students to earn 快播视频 graduate degrees, which were awarded this past June.聽
快播视频 doctoral student Mohamed Duale documents the dilemmas faced by refugees in extended exile in his recent report for the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN), a team of researchers and practitioners committed to promoting protection and solutions with and for refugees. Mohamed Duale Duale spent the summer of 2019 in a research placement […]
鈥淲hen it comes to African refugees, and the ways they have contributed to Canadian society, that story is yet to be fully documented and to be visible,鈥 comments Mohamed Duale, a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education who spent years working with refugees navigating the asylum process.
Master of Education students Abdikadir Abikar, Ochan Leomoi and Project Program Administrator HaEun Kim, who are all a part of the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) Project, wrote an article titled 鈥淓ducating for return: Somali refugees in Dadaab鈥 that was published in the latest issue of the Forced Migration Review.