Dadaab Refugees Fear Repatriation will deny them the Right and Freedom to University Education

• Autores: Patrick Mugo Mugo
• Localización: Global Education Magazine, ISSN-e 2255-033X, Nº. 6, 2013
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Among the refugee community of the largest refugee camp in the world, the Dadaab refugee camps (1) in northern Kenya, education is more than a right and a freedom. It is a door through which the refugees can get out of the camp, or what some of them call the ‘warehouse’. University education is a window from a camp life that resembles a ‘Prison from Opportunity’ due to restrictive measures and limited mobility imposed by the host state. In other words, the university education within a refugee camp opens and expands refugees’ opportunities, adds value to their lives thereby transforming their situation from being that of a dependent population into one that has capabilities to secure its own future. The camp’s university restores hope and redefines the refugees’ future beyond tertiary education.