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7 J. Int'l Humanitarian Action 1 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/jinthuma7 and id is 1 raw text is: Muhumed and Ahmed Journal of International Humanitarian Action (2022) 7:1 https'//doi.org/10.1186/s41018-021-00109-4 Journal of International Humanitarian Action S A C A Te Acs Educational inequality in the Kebribeyah Somali refugee camp in Ethiopia: an autoethnography Ahmed Muhumed' and Saleh Ahmed2 Abstract Due to the Somali Civil War of 1991, more than 10,000 Somali refugees resettled in Kebribeyah, a town in the Somali region of Ethiopia. For nearly three decades, the local and resettled refugee communities shared the resources the region had to offer, adopted a new common cultural norm, and fostered some levels of social cohesions. It is the education sector, however, that caused social conflicts and hatred between resettled Somalis and the native Somali- Ethiopians. Currently, the education of Somali refugee children is funded by various international organizations, such as the United Nations. On the contrary, the local Somali-Ethiopian children pay their way to schools which leads to poor educational experiences. Using autoethnography as the research method, this article examines the formation of educational gaps between the local and refugee children. Findings suggest that educational inequality can exist between refugee and host communities, if not properly managed, and can ultimately impact social cohesion and stability in the refugee-hosting regions. Keywords: Autoethnography, Education inequality, Ethiopia, Kebribeyah refugee camp, Social cohesion, Somalia Introduction When war breaks out, you run away... leaving your everything. If you don't have an education, then you'll become poor. But if you run away with only your shirt and you have the brain, you can work somewhere and earn a living.... Education is a very essential tool. Also, education is light (In the words of a Somali refugee living in Kenya, Abrooon, quoted from Dryden-Peterson 2017, p.4). As of today, there are over 82 million people forced out of their homes due to persecution, conflict, or violence (UNHCR 2021). Almost 86% of those forcefully displaced populations are currently living in different countries in the Global South, and in most cases, they are in the neighboring nations (UNHCR 2021). Given that many of *Correspondence: salehahmed@boisestate.edu School of Pubc Servce, Boise State nversty, Boise, n D 83725, USA Ful lst of author information is available at the end of the article -- Springer Open the host countries lack resource for their own people and because these countries do little to protect the newcom- ers fleeing for their lives, rising tensions between refugees and the host communities are common in refugee crisis (Fisk 2018). The scarce recourses these developing coun- tries have to offer can create competition for resources- i.e., water and food-between the refugees and the host communities (Martin 2005). In the recent years, the resource competition between refugees and their host counterparts has seen an increase at many levels of soci- ety (Gul et al. 2020). In this context, social assets such as education are seen to play a role in the contention for resources (Wei et al. 2018). According to the United Nations (UN), education allows socio-economic growth and plays a huge role in the fight against poverty (United Nations 2020). Education is part one of a set of human rights, idealized, and enshrined in the Universal Declara- tion of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child as well as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), which claims that ©The Author(s) 2021. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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