Virtual Book Launch – “A Better Future”
Please note that registration is required
Join us on Friday, October 2 at 9:30 a.m. EDT (3:30 p.m. SAST) for the launch of “A Better Future,” a new book assembled by global scholars and policy makers who draw attention to the role of higher education for displaced and marginalized people. Registration is required.Pleaseclick hereto RSVP and receive your link to watch on Zoom.
Event Description
“A Better Future” performs an invaluable service for those interested in understanding and fighting a significant violation of educational opportunity and social justice. Our discussion with the book’s editors will focus on the following highlights from the book:
Impacts of educational disadvantage, normally reserved for primary and secondary education
Different theoretical and analytical perspectives that offer a survey of a complex and diverse field
Critical perspectives to the challenge of enabling access to higher education for stigmatized citizen groups, refugees and migrants
Speakers
Professor Jacqueline Bhabha, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University
Jacqueline Bhabha is Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Massachusetts. She is also Director of Research at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, and an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Professor Wenona Giles, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University
Wenona Giles is Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar in the Anthropology Department and Resident Research Associate of the Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Toronto. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Professor Faraaz Mahomed, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, Wits University
Faraaz Mahomed is a clinical psychologist and research associate at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. He is also a Research Associate at the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Applied Legal Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
About “A Better Future”
Policy makers, advocates and scholars have long concentrated on the importance of equal access to primary and secondary education as a foundation for a democratic and just society. Despite the growing importance of higher and specialist education in an increasingly technological and skill-focused global market, tertiary education has attracted much less attention. And yet, universities and colleges are epicenters of egregious disparities in access, which impinge on traditionally marginalized communities, such as racial minorities, migrants, indigenous populations and people with disabilities.
Assembled with first-rate material from scholars and policy makers around the world, “A Better Future” draws attention to the role of higher education for displaced and marginalized people. For more information on the book, pleaseclick here.
Sponsoring Institutions
FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University
Centre for Refugee Studies, York University
Centre for Applied Legal Studies, Wits University
