IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/wbk/wbrwps/10765.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Thriving beyond Borders ? Understanding Refugee Children’s Life Outcomes

Author

Listed:
  • Hiller,Tatiana
  • Moya,Andrés
  • Rozo Villarraga,Sandra Viviana

Abstract

By 2023, more than 108 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide, with children under 18 constituting 45 percent. This study examines the human development gaps between forcibly displaced migrant and host children and adolescents, focusing on cognitive and socioemotional skills and physical and mental health. The study also explores how access to services and regularization programs are correlated with these disparities using a unique and comprehensive longitudinal data set of around 2,500 Venezuelan migrant and Colombian host children and adolescents, ages 5 to 17 and living in Medellín, Colombia. The findings reveal significant developmental delays among migrant children in physical and cognitive development, but interestingly, no significant differences in socioemotional and mental health outcomes. The research underscores how the availability of public services and engagement in regularization programs are crucial for mitigating these developmental gaps.

Suggested Citation

  • Hiller,Tatiana & Moya,Andrés & Rozo Villarraga,Sandra Viviana, 2024. "Thriving beyond Borders ? Understanding Refugee Children’s Life Outcomes," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10765, The World Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:10765
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099912105062428250/pdf/IDU101b2662118a0a149241a06819d562ba9e087.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:10765. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Roula I. Yazigi (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/dvewbus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.