Integration within the social networks of displaced and host community sixth graders in Jordan (Poster 12)

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Abstract

Millions of children find themselves forcibly displaced across national borders due to conflicts and crises. These children have a right to continue their schooling in their host country despite their displacement. In efforts to increase school access among displaced children, there have been increasing efforts since 2012 to include displaced children in the public schools of their host communities. However, these inclusion efforts are implemented in ways that may continue to separate children experiencing displacement from those in the host community. Sometimes displaced children attend public schools in geographically separate areas and other cases they attend temporally separate school shifts in the afternoon despite being in the same school as host students. The social effects of different implementations of school inclusion efforts remain poorly understood. I present evidence of the levels of social network integration among sixth graders from a longitudinal social network analysis of displaced and host-community students across ten schools and four Governorates in Jordan.

Author

• Daniel Shephard, Columbia University