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Investment in Second Language Learning and Higher Education

Narratives of Syrian Refugees in Turkish Universities
Buch | Hardcover
194 Seiten
2026
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
978-1-80041-936-0 (ISBN)
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This book examines the experiences of Syrian young adult refugees studying in Turkish universities, highlighting the intersections between linguistic, social, economic and structural challenges and the students’ resourceful approaches to overcoming these barriers.
Builds on Norton’s work on investment to contest pervasive deficit perspectives that portray refugees as helpless victims or a public burden.



Set in Türkiye, the country with the largest number of refugees in the world, this book expands the limited literature on higher education for refugees, particularly the gap in research in displacement settings.



It examines the experiences of Syrian young adult refugees studying in Turkish universities, highlighting the intersections between linguistic, social, economic and structural challenges and the students’ resourceful approaches to overcoming these barriers. Their stories depict both unique and common experiences of accessing higher education during displacement and underscore the importance of quality language instruction, interpersonal relationships, and supportive faculty members.



It contests pervasive deficit perspectives that portray refugees as helpless victims or a public burden and calls into question assumptions about integration in the nation of asylum being the ideal long-term outcome for refugees. The book also lays a methodological foundation for future decolonizing work in applied linguistics, centering the experiences of refugees and disrupting Northern dominance of forced migration scholarship.

Melissa Hauber-Özer is an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of Qualitative Inquiry in the Department of Learning, Teaching & Curriculum, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. She is co-editor of The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Participatory Inquiry in Transnational Research Contexts (2024, with M. Call-Cummings and G. Dazzo).

Chapter 1. Introduction



Chapter 2. Identity and Investment in Language Learning



Chapter 3. Advocacy Ethnography



Chapter 4. Overview of Findings



Chapter 5. Narrative Portraits of Displacement During High School



Chapter 6. Narrative Portraits of Displacement During University



Chapter 7. Experiences, Investment Strategies and Future Goals and Identities



Chapter 8. Implications and Conclusions



Appendices



References



Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.3.2026
Reihe/Serie New Perspectives on Language and Education
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-80041-936-8 / 1800419368
ISBN-13 978-1-80041-936-0 / 9781800419360
Zustand Neuware
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