ABSTRACT
This chapter is to present the legal and institutional aspects of the integration of asylum seekers and refugees in the domain of education and examine the actual practices of integration in one chosen area, namely Polish language learning. The focus is put on adult asylum seekers’ and refugees’ access to Polish language courses, together with their effectiveness and participants’ motivations for starting and continuing their learning, in order to see what facilitations and barriers there are in host country language acquisition by applicants and beneficiaries of international protection. The chapter also seeks to investigate whether the practices of language education at each step of the integration process (reception during the asylum procedure and actual integration after being granted protection status) are coherent. In addition, by presenting the actual practices of Polish language learning by refugees, the shortcomings and good practices in this area are identified.
