Education and Training

Newly arrived migrants often face various legal, administrative, linguistic and also cultural obstacles when entering the kindergarten and school system. To provide practitioners with a quick overview of what is happening, we have reviewed both academic and policy-oriented research findings since 2011. face various legal, administrative, linguistic and cultural obstacles when seeking employment.

Read the findings of our study to learn more about common policy approaches that facilitate or restrict access to education for families with refugee biographies, and get an idea of what effective, practical measures you might put in action yourself.

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Brief for Education and Training:

A snapshot of research findings on most pressing issues on the topic of education and training.

This Brief provides a summary of research findings on challenges newly arrived migrants* are facing in the field of pre-school and school education and training and policy practices tackling those. In addition, it elaborates a series of recommendations that can be applied by different stakeholders. The brief is based on a review of research of the past 10 years on migrants and  Education and Training.

Featured studies:

High time to put the invisible children on the agenda: supporting refugee families and children through quality ECEC

This article addresses this issue, by reporting on the results from the Erasmus+ Project ‘MyRef’, Multilingual Early Childhood Education and Care for Young Refugee Children (01/10/2016–31/05/2019) carried on in Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom. One of the main findings of the project was the almost complete lack of specific policy or attention for this group of young children and their families...

Responding to the ECEC Needs of Children of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Europe and North Amercia

This report explores the findings of a nine-country study of ECEC policies and practices designed to serve young children of refugees and asylum seekers. It draws on fieldwork conducted in Belgium, Canada, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Turkey, and the United States—major host countries with varied refugee and asylum-seeker populations, migration-management policies, and ECEC systems—to highlights both common challenges and promising practices...

Holistic refugee and newcomer education in Europe

This paper first provides an overview of key research gaps in refugee education. It then provides a mapping of promising holistic education practices in Europe, with a focus on Germany, Greece and the Netherlands. Based on this, the paper explores key conditions to upscale and institutionalise promising practices of holistic refugee and newcomer education....

Find selected research on Education and Training on The Migration Research Hub

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Here you can see how much evidence on Migrants and Crime is available in each country (from the Migration Research Hub).

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