Refugees and Migration

The scholarship provides accepted students with full tuition from participating schools and support for non-tuition expenses from Columbia Global.

Columbia Global to highlight World Refugee Day and the plight of millions around the world forced to flee their homelands.

The Center hosted a hybrid event on forced migration and possible innovative solutions in social inclusion on July 7 with Professor E. Nezih Orhon.

Refugees Act and Communicate Health (REach) Project is designed to aid refugees and local youth living in urban settings via digital technologies.

For the world’s most vulnerable children, the closure of schools due to COVID-19 is more than a temporary evil – it could mean the end of their education. Teachers in the Education for Life program have been trying to maintain contact with students during the crisis.

Monette Zard directs the Forced Migration and Health Program and is associate professor of Population and Family Health.

The INEE Teachers in Crisis Contexts (TiCC) Working Group, in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development’s Education in Conflict and Crisis Network (USAID ECCN) coordinated the “Teachers in Crisis Contexts Introduction, Contextualization and Implementation Workshop for Kenya,” from June 12-16, 2017 at Columbia Global Centers Nairobi. The workshop brought together practitioners, teacher trainers, policymakers and academics. Participants were introduced to the Training Pack for Primary School Teachers in Crisis Contexts, which was launched in April 2016.