2025/01/02 by Fida Adely, Salma Al-Shami, Rochelle Davis · 1 voice
Health Professions · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography #Health and Conflict Studies #Migration, Health and Trauma
paper · doi:10.1080/00187259.2024.2440410
openalex publication_date 2025/01/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/14
With the ISIS takeover of parts of Iraq from 2014 to 2017, an estimated six million people were displaced, in addition to widespread infrastructure destruction, and the diversion of funding to fight against ISIS. At the same time, the global drop in oil prices reduced income to the country and caused huge strains on governmental systems. These factors combined to exacerbate problems of educational resource allocation and teacher shortages. We draw on quantitative and qualitative data and analysis from a five-year panel study of 3,635 displaced Iraqis to show the challenges that displaced parents and children have faced in managing children’s education. The challenge is not displacement alone. Rather, gender, age, and parents’ preferences, financial difficulties including the cost of housing, and the limited provision of services, all contribute to disparities to access in education among Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).