(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) By the end of 2015, 65.3 million people were forcibly displaced, either as refugees or internally displaced persons (IDPs), the highest number of displaced persons globally since the end of the Second World War. Measured against the world's population of 7.4 billion, one in every 113 people is now either a refugee, IDP, or asylum-seeker. Most of the world's refugees (86%) are hosted in developing countries (UNHCR, 2015). Over half of the forcibly displaced people are children. For education systems, the implication of this unprecedented displacement is alarming. Recent research has revealed the myriad...
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