This report presents estimates of the number of children living in internal displacement due to conflict and violence. Estimates are calculated by applying the percentage of the national population in broad age groups, estimated by the UN Population Division’s World...
JDC Literature Review
Results for: Multiple Countries
Are IDPs Satisfied With the Quality of Public Health and Education Services They Receive? A Long-term Perspective from Urban Areas in the Post-Socialist Countries
In most displacement contexts IDPs incur losses to their material assets (housing, land and livestock), leading them to invest in mobile human capital (education) in an attempt to reduce the socio-economic disadvantage that they or their children are likely to...
How Urban are IDPs and What Does that Mean for Their Economic Integration?
Given the economic challenges faced by IDPs in lower and middle-income countries (LMICs), and the wide-ranging consequences of these challenges, there is an emerging consensus that IDPs and refugees should be allowed to pursue self-reliance through local economic...
Missing Persons: Refugees Left Out and Left Behind in the Sustainable Development Goals
This paper examines how refugees are faring in relation to national populations in terms of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Key messages: Refugees are being “left behind”. Four out of five fragile and conflict-affected states are not on...
From Protection to Persecution: Threat Environment and Refugee Scapegoating
This article explores violence perpetrated against refugees, which the authors contend is a more common than violence caused by refugees. They argue that host states are more likely to violate the physical integrity of refugee populations in the wake of terrorist...
One-sided Violence in Refugee-hosting Areas
This paper studies the relationship between within-country patterns of refugee settlement and patterns of civilian victimization during armed conflict. The author posits that: Armed actors victimize civilians at higher rates in areas with larger refugee populations,...
Refugee Youth, Unemployment and Extremism: Countering the Myth
Refugee youth unemployment has been linked to increased risk of extremism and/or exploitation because unemployed youth may be more likely to respond to financial incentives or be attracted by a sense of purpose or social identity. However, the authors’ research...
The Importance of Social Capital in Protracted Displacement
The authors argue that refugees can create ‘bonding’ and ‘bridging’ social capital even in situations of relative vulnerability. In Lebanon, refugees often choose to settle in locations where they have preexisting social networks (leading to strong ethnic/kinship...
Social Cohesion and Forced Displacement: A Desk Review to Inform Programming and Project Design
This study examines the concept of social cohesion as it relates to forced displacement, with a view to enhancing diplomatic, policy and operational responses to address social tensions associated with forced displacement. The review comprises three parts: A review of...
Are Asylum Seekers More Likely to Work with More Inclusive Labor Market Access Regulations?
This paper evaluates whether inclusive labor market policies increase the labor market participation of asylum seekers, by exploiting the variation in asylum policies in Swiss cantons to which asylum seekers are randomly allocated. During the period from 2011 to 2014,...