Education: Hope for newcomers in Europe
having programmes delivered by universities elevates their status and quality considerably. It also gives migrant teachers access to a wide range of information sources and contact platforms. As evident from this short summary on the role of educational unions in the education of refugee and asylum-seeking children and adults, the main focus is on lobbying, gathering and disseminating basic information, scattered local practices for setting up courses for further education of migrant teachers (with the exception of Sweden), and limited support to scientific-based knowledge production. There is little information, with a few exceptions, about the final outcomes of these practices. In his contribution on Sweden, Bunar concludes that, despite plenty of goodwill, the role of education unions has lacked visibility (p. 22). It could be added that the unions seem to lack an overarching idea on what they, given their size and resources, can do for newly-arrived students and migrant teachers.
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