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Refugee students languish in red tape as they seek to resume their educations

The Hechinger Report

Deep beneath the surface of a massive refugee crisis that’s the worst since World War II is the less well understood reality that tens of thousands of university students leaving Syria and other countries have had their educations interrupted — educations needed for those nations to rebuild if and when the conflicts in them end.

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From the archives: Already languishing in red tape, refugee students now may be barred altogether from U.S.

The Hechinger Report

Here’s a story from the Hechinger archives about the “lost generation” of refugees who are languishing in red tape as they seek to resume their college educations in the U.S. Many university-age refugees want to study in the United States, but only a tiny handful has succeeded. In Syria alone, from which 4.8