The Home School Legal Defense Association has set up a program to match foreign home schoolers who have fled persecution in their homelands with host families in the United States. From the HSLDA website:
Unfortunately, there are a number of countries around the world where homeschooling is actively opposed and where foreign governments seek to stamp out fledgling homeschool movements. In particular, Brazil, Germany, and Sweden are aggressively persecuting homeschoolers. Yet, brave families living in these three countries still choose to homeschool their children—in spite of intense persecution in the form of punishing fines, criminal prosecution, or the loss of custody of their children. In an increasing number of cases, families are forced to flee their homelands in the face of this aggressive, government-sponsored persecution. HSLDA has reported widely on the plight of these homeschoolers. We recently won political asylum for the Romeike family from Germany. Sadly, the United States government has chosen to appeal this ruling.
[…] written before (here and here) about the Romeike family, a German Evangelical homeschooling family. They were granted […]
Germany was the leading homeschooling nation in the past. Many great German poets, philosophers and musicians were homeschooled or have worked as homeschool-teachers. After Germany lost World War II and the US-Americans marched in, they gave a constitution to Germany saying that the government has to control the educational system. This article in the constitution is nowadays the foundation for persecution of homeschoolers by the government. More information is to be found on the website http://www.campaign4homeschooling.com.