The (In)Coherence of Canadian Education Policy Regimes with the United Nations' Refugee Education Strategy

Towards Equitable Inclusion for Refugees: The Needs of Students With and Seeking Refugee Protection

“…For example, in Quebec, policymakers and administrators may wish to focus on access to education for SWSRP given that the present study estimates that Quebec was the destination of 31% of the SWSRP who arrived in Canada between January 2015 and March 2020 while our previous study found policies explicitly guaranteeing SWSRP access to education in Quebec to be lacking . In Ontario, policymakers, administrators, and educators may wish to prioritize work on accelerated education because an estimated 43% of SWSRP in Canada resided in Ontario and most of them have accelerated education needs, but there is a level of incoherence in policies addressing accelerated education needs in Ontario that may deleteriously affect implementation of objectives in this area (Schutte, 2020;. In New Brunwick and Nova Scotia, they may wish to prioritize access to education because of the apparent absence of provincial policy explicitly guaranteeing education access to SWSRP, which stands to affect all SWSRP in these jurisdictions .…”