Integration of Palestinian Refugee Children from Syria in UNRWA Schools in Lebanon.

ABSTRACT: Following the Syrian conflict that began in 2011, Lebanon received more than one million refugees including 44,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria (PRS). PRS children were integrated into existing schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Despite efforts by UNRWA to integrate the newly displaced into its services in Lebanon, only 58% of 6-18-year-old PRS children were enrolled in school in 2014. Informed by ecological systems theory, we examined the role of parental characteristics in determining school enrollment among PRS children following displacement into Lebanon. Utilizing data from the 2014 UNRWA Vulnerability Assessment (N = 12,378 6-18-year-old children), we specified crude and adjusted logistic regression models to predict child school non-enrollme

SUBMITTER: Beydoun Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7780595 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature