ABSTRACT
Exploring adult migrants’ needs is a core subject in migration studies. One focal area of the research focuses on migrants’ health care needs, while other research refers to migrants’ needs in relation to their skills and capacities, education, and psychological support. Building on the critical-empowerment perspective, this study has attempted to critically explore adult migrants’ learning needs from their subjective point of view, considering that needs are socially constructed, constantly changing, and usually, the necessary mediators of meeting natural, objective human needs. Though it is small-scale research, its findings are indicative of the great heterogeneity amongst migrants and the complexity of the way in which their learning needs, aspirations, and hopes get formed and transformed across living in the host country. This chapter argues for a liberating, emancipatory, change-oriented education of adult migrants, which enhances critical awareness, self-efficacy, personal development, and active engagement with the new social space.
