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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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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
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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

Urban Refuge: How Cities Are Building Inclusive Communities

This report highlights the efforts of 23 city governments worldwide that are supporting displaced populations. It serves as a call to action for private sector and international humanitarian actors to build on these efforts as urban displacement increases. It includes case studies from cities at the forefront of displacement stemming from the largest current crises,…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Report

Listen and Learn: Participatory Assessment with Children and Adolescents

This Tool sets out some specific considerations to be taken into account when working with girls and boys. It suggests a new approach to participatory assessments for children and adolescents. It describes the need for an ethical approach to participatory assessment and sets out the elements of such an approach. After providing some tips on…
  • Publication year: 2012
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Access to Play for Children in Situation of Crisis. Synthesis of Research in Six Countries

Very little evidence exists on children’s play in situations of crisis. The IPA research project aims to fill that gap by conducting empirical research in six locations (India, Japan, Lebanon, Nepal, Thailand and Turkey). IPA APC research questions include: How does crisis affect children’s right to play in everyday life? How do children cope with…
  • Publication year: 2017
  • Content Type: Report

The Integration of Refugees through Participatory Planning in Transitory Spaces: Policy Implications from Conflict Transformation and Urban Planning

The numbers are staggering: according to a recent report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are currently an estimated 65.3 million forcibly displaced persons worldwide (UNHCR 2016). Developing countries are on the receiving end of 86% of them, with an estimated 19.5 million refugees worldwide that are housed in UNHCR refugee…
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Preventive Mental Health Interventions for Refugee Children and Adolescents in High-Income Settings

This review describes interventions that are delivered to refugee children, interventions with parents and schools, and broader cultural and socioeconomic interventions. The author notes that due to the multidimensional challenges that refugee children face, it is important to do ‘comprehensive psychological interventions’ as well as ‘restoring and supporting the social and physical environment’ so that…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Children in Conflict Situations: Applying Childhood Research with a Focus on the Early Years

This chapter talks about the limited applied research conducted with young children in times of conflict and displacement even thought the impacts on them are very high. Young children’s development is affected, their mental health. Young children are especially at risk when parents or caregivers cannot provide them with adequate protection due to their own…
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Content Type: Book

Global Parliament of Mayors 

The Global Parliament of Mayors is a governance body of, by and for mayors from all continents with a vision to the world in which mayors, their cities and networks are equal partners in building global governance for an inclusive and sustainable world.
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Content Type: Other document

Sport for Protection Toolkit: Programming with Young People in Forced Displacement Settings

The toolkit provides an overview of the theory of change for sports for Protection, focuses on three protection outcomes (social inclusion, social cohesion and psychosocial well-being), provides principles for protecting and safeguarding children and young people, and gives detailed and practical steps for planning and implementing Sport for Protection programming.
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Urban Heart: Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool

The Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART) helps urban policymakers, communities and other stakeholders better understand the local socio-economic factors that influence health outcomes and tackle urban health inequities. The tool serves to identify and correct policies that perpetuate these inequities, for instance, the higher rates of illness and death among the children…
  • Publication year: 2010
  • Content Type: Report

Listen to Me: Protecting the Development of Young Children in Armed Conflict

Young children do experience violence, they do try to understand it, and they do remember it. We must pay attention to their reactions to these experiences. We must learn to comprehend the meaning of violence for young children especially when they lack critical language skills which help them to organize their perceptions and express their…
  • Publication year: 1998
  • Content Type: Report

Access to Play for Children in Situations of Crisis. Play: Rights and Practice – A Toolkit for Staff, Managers and Policy Makers

This toolkit has been produced to support people and agencies working in crisis situations so that they are better able to understand and support children’s everyday play. It defines situations of crisis as humanitarian, natural and man-made disasters. The toolkit aims to support everyday, community-based play opportunities for children in crisis situations. The toolkit is…
  • Publication year: 2017
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Different Perspectives on Emotional and Behavioural Problems in Unaccompanied Refugee Children and Adolescents

This study aims to investigate the prevalence of emotional and behavioural problems in unaccompanied refugee children and adolescents living in Belgium. A total of 166 unaccompanied refugee children and adolescents, living in different large- and small-scale centres, in foster care or alone, participated in the study. Between 37 and 47% of the unaccompanied refugee youths…
  • Publication year: 2007
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Protecting and Supporting Internally Displaced Children in Urban Settings

At the end of 2018, over 17 million children were internally displaced by conflict or violence, and millions more by disasters or other causes. Within a global context of increasing urbanisation, towns and cities are becoming a major refuge for displaced populations, including children. Displaced children and their families in urban settings may find it…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Report

Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2017

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 their countries or areas of origin, asylum-seekers, stateless people and other populations of concern to…
  • Publication year: 2017
  • Content Type: Report

Teaching About Refugees: Guidance on Working with Refugee Children Struggling with Stress and Trauma

This document provides guidance for teachers working with refugee children. The document presents the different factors that affect children who are exposed to armed conflict and displacement, what symptoms of trauma and stress children of different ages (young children, school children, young adults) display , and how practitioners can help those children. The document provides…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Report

Update: Durable Solutions for Syrian Refugees

The key durable solutions for refugees from Syria are resettlement and complementary pathways of admission to a third country, voluntary return to Syria in safety and dignity, and protection and assistance in countries of asylum. UNHCR is pursuing policy, programmatic and strategic directions across the region to facilitate access to durable solutions while maintaining protection…
  • Publication year: 2017
  • Content Type: Report

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DeCID: Co-designing social infrastructure with children affected by displacement is a project led by The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (UCL) and CatalyticAction, and funded by UKRI through the Global Challenges Research Fund.

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