This report provides essential data and information on educational challenges faced by nearly 50 million uprooted children around the world. It notes that some of these children and their families migrate in pursuit of better education or job opportunities, while others are forced from their homes because of conflicts or natural disasters. Whether they are refugees, internally displaced people or migrants, the report concludes, uprooted children are still children who have a right to education – and the safety, stability and opportunity that education can provide.
The report highlights the needs of unaccompanied children and young people and their heightened vulnerability to exploitation, abuse, and trafficking. Furthermore, according to the report, a recent survey of children moving across the Central Mediterranean route to Europe indicated that many of the unaccompanied adolescents surveyed had been out of school for more than a year.
