Quiet Inclusion: Why governments maintain gaps between de jure and de facto refugee inclusion in education in Africa

17 March 2026, 13:00-14:00 GMT

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This is an in-person event at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, with the option of also joining online.

Speaker:

• Dr Shelby Carvalho, Postdoctoral Fellow, King Center on Global Development and the Harvard Graduate School of Education Refugee REACH Initiative, Stanford University

This seminar will focus on the politics of refugee education in Africa. By mapping de jure and de facto inclusion in more than 30 countries and drawing on multiple original data sources including interviews, observations and an elite survey, the findings highlight how host governments strategically leverage gaps between policy and practice to govern refugee education by the “politics of the day”.