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  1. UCL Institute of Education, University College London, 20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL, London, UK

    Georgina Brewis

  2. Directorate of Democratic Citizenship and Participation/DG Democracy, Council of Europe – Conseil de l’Europe, Strasbourg, France

    Sjur Bergan

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    Jung Cheol Shin

  2. CIPES, Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Pedro Teixeira

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Brewis, G., Bergan, S. (2016). Refugees and Higher Education. In: Shin, J., Teixeira, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_40-1

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