Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis: Displacement, Gender and Social Inequalities
ISBN: 9781003167013
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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Subjects: Behavioral Sciences; Global Development; Geography; Health and Social Care; Politics & International Relations; Development Studies Environment Social Work Urban Studies; Social Sciences; Global Development; Culture & Development; Development Policy; Population & Development; Hazards & Disasters; Psychological Science; Mental Health; Health & Society; Public Health Policy and Practice; Social Work and Social Policy; International Relations; Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns; Cultural Studies; Education; Anthropology - Soc Sci; Sociology & Social Policy; Children and Youth; Maternal and Child Health; Child and Family Social Work; Global Governance; International Organizations; War & Conflict Studies; Gender; Childhood and Adolescence; Childhood - Anthropology; Development - Soc Sci; Sociology of the Family; Developmental Psychology; Psychological Disorders - Children and Adolescents; Social Policy;


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.


Nicola Jones is Principal Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), UK, and is Director of the nine-year global mixed-methods Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) research programme, funded by UK aid.

Kate Pincock is Researcher for the GAGE programme at the ODI and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK.

Bassam Abu Hamad is General Coordinator and Associate Professor in the School of Public Health Al-Quds University (Jerusalem) and also currently Associate Regional Director for MENA for the GAGE research programme.

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