It is estimated that more than 20,000 refugee and migrant population in Greece are children (0-17 years old). As many of these children have been in the country for more than one year, access to education is a key area of concern. According to national legislation, children are entitled to education irrespective of their legal status. Yet, access to education including formal, non-formal and informal, remains a challenging issue. The data on refugee and migrant children’s access to educative structures as well as data on access rates, dropout rates, and barriers to education, is limited. Greek state and society as a host country of the latest migrant/refugee ‘wave’ from Syria and Middle East was not ready in multiple stages for integrating such numbers of children and youth of different origins, cultures and backgrounds in the Greek society, education and reality. This paper is a presentation of the contemporary insights and trends towards adolescent refugee and migrant prospective students of upper secondary school level in Greece.
María et al. (Sun,) studied this question.