Access and participation to HE for displaced people are both global and regional challenges; areUsafe focuses on the interplay between these challenges to enrich a field of scholarship currently in its early stages. At the crossroads of HE studies, displacement studies, and political anthropology, areUsafe is scientifically innovative, shedding new light on both migratory experiences and the way universities, as institutions, operate.
Only a few studies have focused specifically on how "people and students on the move" articulate their HE journeys as part (or not) of their larger migration journeys and the intersection of these journeys with the institutional life of universities. B
y adopting this lens and focusing on the voices of displaced people collected on the ground, areUsafe will spark a conversation inside academia on the moral role universities play in relation to the precarious lives of displaced people in contexts lacking state-level macro policies and characterized by neoliberal drives that do not foster the creation of safe spaces for vulnerable people.