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Thematic Area: Children in displacement

By 2018, almost half of the refugee population worldwide was composed of children. Displacement exposes children and their families to a wide range of distressing and dangerous events. These include threats to their safety, loss, adversity, and separation from families and communities. Unaccompanied children are even more exposed to risk.

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Child Development in the Context of Disaster, War, and Terrorism: Pathways of Risk and Resilience

This review draws on research conducted into the effects of extreme adversities that lead to mass trauma, such as natural disasters, terrorism, and war, on child development. It highlights fundamental adaptive systems that help build resilience among children and youth facing extreme adversities and emphasises the importance of parental figures and of restoring high quality…
  • Publication year: 2012
  • Content Type: Academic paper
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Mental Health of Displaced and Refugee Children Resettled in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries: Risk and Protective Factors

This systematic review draws on data around displacement to low- and middle-income countries, providing evidence for individual, family, community, and societal risk and protective factors that affect displaced children’s mental health. They highlight that exposure to violence is a well-established risk factor for poor mental health among children, and call attention to the challenges faced…
  • Publication year: 2012
  • Content Type: Academic paper
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Child Displacement – UNICEF Data

This webpage includes additional figures on the number of displaced children around the world. This webpage provides important information on child displacement.
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Other document
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Displacement Profiling in Urban Areas: Methodological Approaches for Collecting and Analysing Data on Internal Displacement in Cities

This report shows that urban settings pose particular constraints that affect obtaining up-to-date and representative data on displaced people. These constraints can be logistical such as resource constraints and security risks for data collection teams, or political such as bringing different stakeholders together and enabling trust in the results, or technical such as deciding on…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Report
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Children’s Participation in the Context of Forced Migration

This paper highlights the challenges of involving children in the context of forced migration. Carrying out participatory research in refugee camps is extremely difficult for a huge range of reasons, but involving children can be particularly problematical. This paper outlines the reasons for this, but also highlights why it is so important to involve people…
  • Publication year: 2001
  • Content Type: Academic paper
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Protracted Displacement: Uncertain Paths to Self-Reliance in Exile

This report mentions that “protractedness” has become a prominent feature of forced displacement. With more than 60 million refugees and internally displaced persons around the world, more and more people have been displaced for years on end. At the end of 2014, half of all refugees had been in exile for over ten years. This…
  • Publication year: 2015
  • Content Type: Report
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Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2018

This report provides information about the places and numbers of displaced people around the world. The Global Trends Report is published every year to analyse the changes in UNHCR’s populations of concern and deepen public understanding of ongoing crises. UNHCR counts and tracks the numbers of refugees, internally displaced people, people who have returned to…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Report
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Making Spaces for Children. Planning for Post-Disaster Reconstruction with Children and Their Families

This report explains why is important – in contest of crisis – to involve children and families in the planning of their physical living environment, and how to do it. This handbook aims at contributing to disaster response reconstruction programmes that not only rebuild the physical living environment but that strengthen the capacity of communities…
  • Publication year: 2006
  • Content Type: Report

UNHCR Policy on Cash-Based Interventions

UNHCR’s Policy on Cash-Based Interventions (CBIs) is introduced herewith to expand and systematise the use of CBIs as a modality of assistance and service delivery across the organization and its operations worldwide. The Policy reconfirms UNHCR’s commitment to the increased use of CBIs and sets out the corporate vision and objectives to be achieved by…
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Content Type: Report

Mass Displacement and the Challenge for Urban Resilience

This report examines all forms of migration: forced and voluntary, domestic and cross-border, and in response to different pressures (particularly disasters and conflict). It focuses on the very large numbers of people moving out of conflict-affected places, across international borders, into urban areas of neighbouring or nearby countries. The report assesses the impact of mass…
  • Publication year: 2017
  • Content Type: Report

Displaced in Cities: Experiencing and Responding to Urban Internal Displacement Outside Camps

A growing proportion of people internally displaced by armed conflict and other violence live in cities and towns. This report looks at their experience in four cities – Mosul in Iraq, Baidoa in Somalia, Maiduguri in Nigeria and San Pedro Sula in Honduras – and recommends a number of important ways to improve the humanitarian…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Report

Responding to Protracted Refugee Situations Lessons from a Decade of Discussion

This RSC Policy Briefing analyses the impact of protracted displacement on the human rights and access to livelihoods of millions of people and examine how protracted displacement situations accentuate the risk of chronic regional insecurity, fragility and conflict spill over. Through tracing the history of international responses to protracted refugee situations (PRS), the brief examine…
  • Publication year: 2011
  • Content Type: Report

Working with Young Children Who Are Victims of Armed Conflict

The article gives evidence of psychosocial interventions designed to help children affected by conflict and displacement. Through a systematic review, the article concludes that psychosocial interventions and normalisation of routines are more effective than therapeutic interventions that draw on PTSD and thus tend to impose cultural norms from minority world countries.
  • Publication year: 2010
  • Content Type: Academic paper

How The Different Policies and School Systems Affect the Inclusion of Syrian Refugee Children in Sweden, Germany, Greece, Lebanon and Turkey

This article compares how Syrian refugee children experience inclusion or exclusion in schools systems in Sweden, Germany, Greece, Turkey and Lebanon. The authors conclude that schools that include refugee children in regular classes with local children result in higher levels of school success compared to segregated systems which result in children leaving or not attending…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Understanding the Root Causes of Displacement: Towards a Comprehensive Approach to Prevention and Solutions

The UN Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) eighth annual High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges – on the theme Understanding and addressing the root causes of displacement – will take place on 16 and 17 December 2015 in Geneva. The dialogue seeks to foster a more nuanced understanding of the drivers of displacement and to identify opportunities…
  • Publication year: 2015
  • Content Type: Report

Durable Solutions for Children Toolkit

68 million people were forcibly displaced at the end of 2017, double those displaced in 2005. More than half are children, many of whom are likely to be amongst the poorest and most vulnerable children on the planet. As trends of displacement move ever upwards, it is increasingly essential that we identify solutions that ensure…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Restoring Playfulness: Different Approaches to Assisting Children Who Are Psychologically Affected by War and Displacement

This book is divided into two parts. The first part provides an overview of key themes and issues related to refugee children including their experiences, the importance of culture, play, parenting and school for their recovery, the need for timely intervention and strategies to achieve maximum impact. The second part presents seven case studies conducted…
  • Publication year: 1996
  • Content Type: Book

War, Conflict and Play

This book provides an overall view of the impact of war and displacement on children and their development. It notes that children can be affected by direct exposure to conflict but also by indirect factors such as the emotional state of their carers. While play can have a hugely positive effect on children’s development and…
  • Publication year: 2005
  • Content Type: Book

IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings

The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) issues these Guidelines to enable humanitarian actors to plan, establish and coordinate a set of minimum multi-sectoral responses to protect and improve people’s mental health and psychosocial well-being in the midst of an emergency. The Guidelines offer essential advice on how to facilitate an integrated approach to address the most…
  • Publication year: 2007
  • Content Type: Toolkit

UN Women’s Global Flagship Initiative, Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces

UN Women’s Global Flagship Initiative, Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces develops, implements, and evaluates tools, policies and comprehensive approaches on the prevention of and response to sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence against women and girls across different settings.
  • Publication year: 2010
  • Content Type: Other document

New Urban Agenda

The New Urban Agenda presented standards and principles for the planning, construction, development, management, and improvement of urban areas along its five main pillars of implementation: national urban policies, urban legislation and regulations, urban planning and design, local economy and municipal finance, and local implementation. It was developed as “a resource for every level of…
  • Publication year: 2017
  • Content Type: Report

Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI)

The Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) provides a governance framework for building child-friendly cities and communities. The framework consists of two pillars: goals and results to be achieved; and strategies to achieve these goals and results. The strategies are related to collecting data & monitoring progress, advocacy & awareness-raising, child-friendly laws & policies, city-wide strategic…
  • Publication year: 1996
  • Content Type: Other document

Emotional Problems in Palestinian Children Living in a War Zone: A Cross-Sectional Study

This articles reports on a study conducted in Palestine with 91 children (9-18 years) who were exposed to their homes being bombarded and demolished during Al Aqsa Intifada and 89 children (controls) who had not, but who witnessed bombardment by helicopters, saw mutilated bodies on television, heard about the conflict in the media or were…
  • Publication year: 2002
  • Content Type: Academic paper

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