en تخصصي Special پژوهشي Research <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Source Sans Pro;"><span style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN">This conceptual piece explores the differential treatment of refugee and asylum-seeker access to higher education as an epistemic good within host-nation states along racialized hierarchies and geographies. By drawing on Fricker&rsquo;s concept of epistemic injustice, this work problematizes the discourses of deservingness in relation to refugees and asylum-seekers of the Global South accessing such state goods of the Global North; and the power relations that undergird constructions of humanity. The paper discusses barriers to refugee and asylum-seekers with respect to policies and practices within higher education in host nations of the Global North, in particular, the UK and EU; and how such policies and state actions operate against the backdrop of whiteness and coloniality. The paper outlines extant policies pertaining to the rights of refugees and asylum-seekers in accessing education; the politics of othering people of the Global South; and explores the possibilities for anti-colonial resistance and racial equity in education in the European context and beyond, as refugee populations are projected to surge across the globe.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"></span></span></span></span></span></div> Coloniality, Refugee, Asylum-seeker, Whiteness, Epistemic Injustice, Education 90 106 http://johepal.com/browse.php?a_code=A-10-82-4&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Zuhra Abawi 10031947532846002923 10031947532846002923 Yes Niagara University Ontario