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As a result of the massive refugee flows in 2015-2016, more than 50,000 refugees and asylum seekers were stranded in Greece, awaiting decisions regarding their status. Meanwhile, the Greek state itself was completely unprepared to provide shelter and education to these populations.This collection of papers presents educational initiatives undertaken by both official and unofficial agencies in order to provide Greek language courses to refugee students of various ages. The studies presented here highlight various challenges such as the teachers' inexperience and lack of material and infrastructure, the students' diversity in terms of ethnic, social and educational background, and their lack of motivation and sense of stability. Moreover, the contributions here point to the importance of adopting innovative and holistic approaches to teaching refugee populations. Such approaches take into account their linguistic and cultural capital, as well as the need to empower them through the learning process.This volume will be of interest to researchers, policy makers and practitioners involved in refugee education in Europe and beyond.

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Aspasia Chatzidaki is Professor at the Department of Primary Education and the Director of the Centre for Intercultural and Migration Studies of the University of Crete. She has published extensively in both Greek and international journals, as well as collective volumes, on the sociolinguistic and educational aspects of bilingualism and the teaching of Greek as a second language. Her recent publications include Teaching Bilingual Children: Theoretical Issues and Pedagogical Approaches. Roula Tsokalidou is a Professor of Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching at the Department of Early Childhood Education at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is an experienced researcher in the area of language contact, bilingualism and translanguaging in Greece, and is the author of more than 100 publications. She is also the author of several books, including SiDaYes! Πέρα από τη διγλωσσία προς τη διαγλωσσικότητα/Beyond Bilingualism to Translanguaging. She is the coordinator of 'Polydromo' group for bilingualism and multiculturalism in education and society and the Director of the Confucius Institute at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

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