The Legal Status of Refugee Children in the Country of Asylum

Abstract

UNICEF estimated that conflict, violence and other crises had displaced 36.5 million children from their homes at the end of 2021, the highest number recorded since World War II. This figure includes 13.7 million refugee and asylum-seeking children and nearly 22.8 million children internally displaced by conflict and violence. UNICEF noted that these figures do not include children displaced by environmental shocks or disasters, nor those most recently displaced in 2022, including from the war in Ukraine.