Situação de Refúgio e Ensino Superior nas IFES: um passo em direção à integração?

Recently, the growing number of refugees received in Brazil has brought to light numerous debates from an economic, political, and social dimension, as well as education. This article expands the concept of education and discusses positive actions oriented to the refugee population in the context of Brazilian Federal Institutions of Higher Education. With a methodology built by literature review and documentary research. This qualitative research has an exploratory and applied nature by bringing as a case study the Migration Policy and Brazilian University Program (PMUB), whose practices will be analyzed according to the framework of 3 is (equity of access, participatory engagement, and empowerment) created by J. Gidley. Initially, the legal and international mechanisms in Brazil and in the world to protect refugees are discussed. Later, the access to higher education as a strategy for exercising citizenship and integration into the host society is presented. As a result, the study has concluded that between 2014 and 2019 most of the actions developed by the program aimed to promote equity of access and participatory engagement, which demonstrates a potential gap regarding the dimension of empowerment.