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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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The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

The Global Compact on Migration aims to foster international cooperation by setting out guiding principles and providing examples of multilateral political framework. It deals with the complex nature of international migration by addressing a wide range of migration-related aspects, such as border management, smuggling and trafficking in human beings, migrant documentation and return and readmission,…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Report

Refugee Education in Urban Settings

An Urban Refugee Task Team webinar led by UNHCR Education teams in Nairobi and Geneva, discussing the role of education in urban settings. It uses Nairobi as a case study, providing good practices, lessons learned and challenges plus general recommendations for programming focusing on mainstreaming and inclusion, partnerships and community participation.
  • Publication year: 2014
  • Content Type: Other document

Contribution to the Expert Symposium on International Migration and Development

This report has sections on 1) urban actors and local authorities for the implementation of the Global Compact and the integration of migrants in urban areas for migration and development, 2) ways to achieve global frameworks on (urban) migration and development, and 3) research and data for urbanization trends.
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Report

High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges: Protection and Solutions in Urban Settings

This report elaborates on the UNHCR’s dialogue on protection challenges which: 1) recognizes the important role of cities, local authorities and communities, including individual citizens and other local actors and partners, in protecting and assisting refugees, returnees and internally displaced and stateless populations, 2) takes stock of existing inter- and intra-city support measures and commitments,…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Report

Refugee Children: Guidelines on Protection and Care

Usually more than half of any refugee population are children. Refugee children are children first and foremost, and as children, they need special attention. As refugees, they are particularly at risk with the uncertainty and unprecedented upheavals which are increasingly marking the post-Cold War era. In order to improve and enhance the protection and care…
  • Publication year: 1994
  • Content Type: Book

UNHCR Policy on Refugee Protection and Solutions in Urban Areas

This report details UNHCR’s policy and approach to securing the rights of urban refugees, providing them with protection, and implementing protection strategies in urban settings, and updating the earlier policy on refugees in urban areas from 1997.
  • Publication year: 2009
  • Content Type: Report

Map Kibera

Map Kibera is an initiative that in 2009 empowered young residents of Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi, to create the first digital map of the area, which was previously a blank spot on the map. The initiative has since expanded into a full community information and media project that uses tools like mapping, SMS,…
  • Publication year: 2009
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Child Development and Family Mental Health in War and Military Violence: The Palestinian Experience

The article reviews developmental research among Palestinians living in Gaza. The aims are, first, to analyse how exposure to traumatic events associates with children’s mental health and their cognitive, emotional and social development. Second, we aimed to model familial and symbolic processes that can either harm or protect the mental health of children. Third, we…
  • Publication year: 2008
  • Content Type: Academic paper

The Effects of State Terrorism and Exile on Indigenous Guatemalan Refugee Children: A Mental Health Assessment and an Analysis of Children’s Narratives

This study examined the mental health and psychosocial development of 58 Guatemalan Mayan Indian children living in 2 refugee camps in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Conventional assessment instruments were adapted for use in this unique context, and semistructured interviews were utilized to gather phenomenological data from children regarding various developmental, sociocultural, and political topics.…
  • Publication year: 1996
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Refugees and the City: The Twenty-First-Century Front Line

This report assesses the characteristics of urban displacement and identifies challenges and opportunities confronting cities. In the process, it challenges myths associated with the “refugee burden” in cities, offering preliminary recommendations for stepping up international, national and municipal cooperation.
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Report

Depressive Symptomology Among Namibian Adolescent Refugees

Symptoms of depression have been considered rare in sub-Saharan populations. Using a standard assessment measure of depressive symptomatology, the Beck Depression Inventory, the prevalence of symptoms of depression was obtained from a group (N = 56) of Namibian refugees (ages 12-23) residing in a sub-Saharan host country. Average time spent in host country 5 years.…
  • Publication year: 1985
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Housing, Land & Property Issues in Lebanon: Implications of the Syrian Refugee Crisis

The urgent need for basic shelter has pushed many Syrian families to live in poor conditions, frequently in spaces not designed as shelters. The situation is further exacerbated with the arrival of new refugees, reducing hence the availability of housing and increasing the risk of eviction. The presence of these refugees has also had adverse…
  • Publication year: 2014
  • Content Type: Report

PASSA Youth: Participatory Approach for Safe Shelter and Settlements Awareness

This manual is for use by National Societies of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) wishing to use PASSA Youth in their programmes. The Participatory Approach for Safe Shelter Awareness (PASSA) is a methodology, implemented in partnership with Habitat for Humanity International, that aims to provide young people aged between…
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Content Type: Toolkit

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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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