Refugees and Access to Vocational Education and Training across Europe: A Case of Protection of White Privilege?

Autor/inn/en	Chadderton, Charlotte; Edmonds, Casey
Titel	Refugees and Access to Vocational Education and Training across Europe: A Case of Protection of White Privilege?
Quelle	In: Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 67 (2015) 2, S.136-152 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-6820
DOI	10.1080/13636820.2014.922114
Schlagwörter	Refugees; Access to Education; Vocational Education; Whites; Advantaged; Educational Policy; Barriers; Racial Discrimination; Educational Practices; Student Experience; Race; Focus Groups; Expertise; Institutional Characteristics; Regional Characteristics; Student Rights; Civil Rights; Counseling Services; Student Placement; Accreditation (Institutions); Experiential Learning; Language Acquisition; Gender Issues; Foreign Countries + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Flüchtling; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; White; Weißer; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Racial bias; Rassismus; Bildungspraxis; Studienerfahrung; Rasse; Abstammung; Expert appraisal; Regionaler Faktor; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Schülerpraktikum; Accreditation; Institution; Institutions; Akkreditierung; Staatliche Anerkennung; Institut; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Geschlechterfrage; Ausland
Abstract	This small-scale, highly original study connects themes which are rarely explored in relation to each other, particularly in a European context: vocational education and training (VET), refugees and race equality in order to explore how VET policies impact on racial equality, and the ways racial structures in Europe impact on VET. It begins to fill important gaps in cross-European research, firstly around VET and race, and secondly around refugees and VET. The paper is based on a study which examined the meso-social benefits of, and barriers to VET for adult refugees to European countries, commissioned by CEDEFOP, the agency funded by the European Commission to promote the development of VET in the European Union. In the paper, we argue that a key factor in shaping refugees' experiences of VET, are the racial structures integral to capitalist societies. Innovatively drawing on key literature which analyses white privilege in the labour market to contextualise our findings, we suggest that barriers faced by refugees are potentially related to structures of white privilege which shape notions of work and workers in Europe and sustain racial hierarchies. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01