Preserving ‘Academic Mobility’ for Afghan Students and Refugees

OAKLAND, Calif. — For Afghanistan’s youth, starting a new life should not mean erasing their education.

Global Student Square executive director Beatrice Motamedi advocates for greater cooperation and compassion to support refugee students in an opinion piece for EdSurge.

They’ve gone dark: Afghans who helped the U.S. military, trained as American-style journalists and rode the wave of women heading to higher education are destroying the diplomas, transcripts and résumés that prove how they built civil society in the country that the U.S. has left behind.

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