Schools key to successful integration of child refugees, says study

Title: Schools key to successful integration of child refugees, says study

Type: article

Location: London, England

Name of responsible persons: Inês

Source: City, University of London

Date: 29 January 2018

Schools can provide the ideal environment to improve integration and reduce the difficulties faced by refugee children. Schools are a place where refugee children can develop meaningful and constructive connections to peers, teachers and other professionals, and they are also a place in which discrimination, racism and stigmatisation can be actively countered.

There is an urgent need to facilitate the integration of refugee children in Western asylum-countries as the number of individuals who have been forced to flee their homes and country of origin has increased rapidly in recent years. As a result, the need to understand how best to support such individuals, especially the youngest of them, has become pressing.

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