Reflecting on Refugees and Asylum-Seekers Tertiary Education in South Africa: Tension Between Refugee Protection and Education Transformation Policies
- Autores: Callixte Kavuro
- Localización: Global Education Magazine, ISSN-e 2255-033X, Nº. 4, 2013
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
As we celebrate the World Refugee Day at 62nd anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention relating to the Status of Refugee, there is 13 years when South Africa has committed itself to providing international protection and assistance to refugees and asylum-seekers and to promote durable solutions for their problems. This article is a reflection on how is the refugee and asylum-seekers protection is provided in terms of tertiary education, and reference to the UN Refugee Convention, Refugee Act and South African Constitution. This article will illustrate political attitudes of the government of South Africa towards refugees and asylum-seekers that influences adoption of national policies, which do not promote favourable access to tertiary education. The current political attitude is concerned with closing the borders and to reduce the number of refugees and asylum-seekers within South Africa. It regards the provision of socioeconomic assistance as an incentive of making South Africa a refugee-immigration destination and this should be discouraged.
