The Invisible Voices of Migrants in Higher Education

Universities and other institutions of higher education have always been places of learning where people from different countries came together. This also certainly contributes to the creativity and productivity of research and teaching. However, in a time of growing migrant and refugee flows, higher education institutions are not only attended by foreign students who have a good previous education, whose parents can finance such studies or who receive a scholarship, but also by vulnerable groups who have fewer financial resources, often have a precarious residence status and whose previous education does not always create the best conditions for successfully completing their studies. However, we believe that these groups also have a human right to higher education. Universities should therefore try to do justice to them as well and adapt their programmes and ways of working accordingly. Given the wide variety of different situations and policies in Europe, we focus on Spain and Germany in the context of Higher Education.