Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms; 1 South-South educational migration and development; 2 South-South cooperation: from dependency to self-sufficiency?; 3 The Cuban-MENA educational migration nexus: views from the Caribbean; 4 Paradoxes of educational migration to Cuba: views from the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria; 5 Solidarity, ideology and circumstantial humanitarianism: views from the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon; 6 Libyan hostipitality through Sahrawi and Palestinian eyes
Summary
This ground-breaking book is one of the first to analyse the important phenomenon of South-South educational migration for refugees. It focuses particularly on South-South scholarship programmes in Cuba and Libya, which have granted free education to children, adolescents and young adults from two of the world's most protracted refugee situations: Sahrawis and Palestinians. Through in-depth multi-sited fieldwork conducted with and about Sahrawi and Palestinian refugee students in Cuba and Libya, and following their return to the desert-based Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria and the urban Palest