‘I was a refugee, at first’. Aspettative, desideri, fallimenti e ricostruzioni nell’esperienza degli studenti rifugiati a Torino

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ID22091969
AuthorsFrancesca Morra (0009-0000-6493-6818, Ministère de la Culture), Marius Manda (Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur les Qualifications), Andrea Pendezzini (CTO Hospital)
Year2022
Volume9
Issue1
Pages121-136
Publication date2022-05-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of International Mobility (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2296-5165 • E-ISSN: 2296-519X
PublisherCAIRN (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3917/jim.009.0121
OpenAlexW4282920009
LanguageIT
Citations received3
References cited24

In the last years, Italian universities have implemented several programmes supporting refugees who want to start university, or return to studies after forced migration. Drawing on the projects developed at the University of Torino, this paper analyses students’ different trajectories, across the difficulties posed by a different academic environment, the imagined possibilities, the obstacles to self-realisation. The paper looks at the interplay between different forms of precarity – material (citizenship status, housing, job), social and existential: how are university careers constructed and reconstructed? Is it possible to imagine being university students, even in a condition of constant insecurity and partial inclusion? Particularly, the paper explores how experiences of suffering are shaped by the discrepancies between students’ desires and aspirations, possibilities offered (or not) by universities, and family and social expectations

Art · Citizenship · Existentialism · Humanities · Pedagogy · Political science · Realisation · Refugee · Sociology · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Gender Studies · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Migration, Health and Trauma

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