Carron, Djemila and O'Keeffe, Paul (2023) Education Can’t Wait for LGBTIQ Refugees? Exploring Inclusion and Access to Higher Education in Kakuma Refugee Camp. In: Migration, Displacement, and Higher Education - Now What? Palgrave MacMillan, Switzerland, pp. 75-85. ISBN 978-3-031-12350-4

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Enabling access to, and reaping the benefits of, higher education in refugee camps, while not an easy task for any refugee, is, for the most part, out of reach for the most vulnerable ones who experience multiple and often intersecting layers of discrimination (Walton et al. 2020). The lesbian, gay, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) “community”Footnote1 in Kakuma refugee camp is the case in point. LGBTIQ refugees and asylum seekers have a long experience of discrimination in Kakuma refugee camp (Zomorodi 2016; NGLHRC 2016), where the authors have been running higher education courses for the last five years. Even though Kenya is the only country in the region to permit asylum seekers to be recognized as refugees on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity, LGBTIQ refugees in Kakuma suffer multiple layers of prejudices from fellow refugees, the host community, national police, and international organizations (Pincock 2020; NGLHRC 2016). In a context where homosexual acts are criminalized (Kenya Penal Code, Section 162 (a) and (c), Section 163, Section 165) and given the severe lack of learning infrastructure (such as adequate learning technology and safe learning spaces) and limited resources, these refugees have very limited access to the few higher education opportunities that other refugees might have.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	Education; Can’t Wait; LGBTIQ Refugees; Exploring; Inclusion; Access; Higher Education; Kakuma Refugee Camp;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > International Development
Item ID:	17095
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12350-4_6
Depositing User:	Paul O'Keeffe
Date Deposited:	06 Apr 2023 09:48
Journal or Publication Title:	Migration, Displacement, and Higher Education - Now What?
Publisher:	Palgrave MacMillan
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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