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Advancing Social Justice for Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the UK: An Open Education Approach to Strengthening Capacity through Refugee Action’s Frontline Immigration Advice Project
Journal of Interactive Media in Education ( IF 2.7 ) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 , DOI: 10.5334/jime.563
Koula Charitonos , Carolina Albuerne Rodriguez , Gabi Witthaus , Carina Bossu

Britain’s asylum system fails the most vulnerable; it cannot ensure that people who are least able to protect themselves are provided with the legal assistance that they require to cope with the challenges with which they are inevitably faced. Against this background, the charity Refugee Action developed the Frontline Immigration Advice Programme (FIAP), a technology-supported capacity strengthening programme that aims to increase access to justice for those going through the asylum system in the UK. This paper is concerned with the design and implementation of the FIAP as a free digitally enabled programme that provides learning opportunities for organisations and frontline workers in the refugee sector and supports them in developing new forms of legal practice. It provides empirical data from interviews with members of staff from six participating organisations in the FIAP, and from Refugee Action and the Office of the UK’s Immigration Services Commissioner1 (n = 21). The paper adopts a view on social justice, which according to Fraser (2005) is understood as ‘parity of participation’. We draw on Fraser’s work, as well as work of other scholars such as Lambert (2018) and Hodgkinson-Williams and Trotter (2018) to explore the relationship between social justice and open education by taking into consideration the context within which organisations and professionals operate. The analysis highlights six dimensions for social justice approaches for professional learning as demonstrated through the case of the FIAP: i. deliberate iterative design; ii. access to provision; iii. flexibility of provision; iv. development of resources; v. support and vi. advancing knowledge and skills whilst adapting the workplace. All these dimensions are discussed in the paper in relation to the concept of openness and are critical in developing open socially just programmes that aim to change work practice and address the needs of the most vulnerable.

中文翻译:

促进英国寻求庇护者和难民的社会公正:通过难民行动的前线移民咨询项目增强能力的开放式教育方法

英国的庇护制度使最弱势的群体失败了。它不能确保最没有能力保护自己的人们获得他们所需要的法律援助,以应对他们不可避免地面临的挑战。在这种背景下,“难民行动”慈善组织制定了“前线移民咨询计划”(FIAP),该计划是一项技术支持的能力增强计划,旨在为通过英国庇护系统的人们增加诉诸司法的机会。本文涉及FIAP作为免费数字化程序的设计和实施,该程序为难民部门的组织和一线工人提供了学习机会,并支持他们发展新的法律实践形式。它提供了来自FIAP六个参与组织的工作人员的采访以及来自难民行动和英国移民服务专员办公室1(n = 21)的工作人员的经验数据。本文采用了一种关于社会正义的观点,根据弗雷泽(Fraser)(2005)的理解,这种观点被理解为“参与的均等性”。我们借鉴弗雷泽(Fraser)的工作以及兰伯特(Lambert,2018)和霍奇金森-威廉姆斯(Hodgkinson-Williams)和特罗特(Trotter)(2018)等其他学者的工作,通过考虑组织和专业人员运作的环境来探索社会正义与开放教育之间的关系。 。该分析突出显示了通过FIAP案例证明的社会正义专业学习方法的六个方面:故意的迭代设计;ii。获得规定;iii。提供的灵活性;iv。开发资源;v。支持和vi。在适应工作场所的同时提高知识和技能。本文针对开放性的概念对所有这些方面进行了讨论,这对于开发旨在改变工作习惯并满足最弱势群体需求的开放社会公正计划至关重要。
更新日期:2020-01-01
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