Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis investigates the experiences of
adolescents displaced by humanitarian crisis.
The world is currently seeing unprecedented levels of mass displacement,
and almost half of the world's 70 million displaced people are children
and adolescents under the age of 18. Displacement for adolescents comes
with huge disruption to their education and employment prospects, as
well as increased risks of poor psychosocial outcomes and sexual and
gender-based violence for girls. Considering these intersectional
vulnerabilities throughout, this book explores the experiences of
adolescents from refugee, internally displaced persons and stateless
communities in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and
Rwanda. Drawing on innovative mixed-methods research, the book
investigates adolescent capabilities, including education, health and
nutrition, freedom from violence and bodily integrity, psychosocial
wellbeing, voice and agency, and economic empowerment.
Centring the diverse voices and experiences of young people and focusing
on how policy and programming can be meaningfully improved, this book
will be a vital guide for humanitarian students and researchers, and for
practitioners seeking to build effective, evidence-based policy.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http:
//www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003167013, has been made available
under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0
license.
