Using the Multiple Streams Analysis Framework to Understand the Impact of Refugee Policy on Refugee Children: A Cross-National Perspective

Omowunmi Olaleye ()
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Omowunmi Olaleye: School of Social Welfare, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA

Social Sciences, 2025, vol. 14, issue 11, 1-16

Abstract: Children represent a large proportion of the world’s refugees. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that as of 2020, there were about 27.1 million refugees worldwide, and roughly half of all refugees were under the age of 18 at any given time. The challenges that refugee children face prior to resettlement include interrupted education, repeated moves, exposure to violence, family separation, lengthy stays in camps, and poverty or deprivation. As a result of the experiences gained from an unexpected relocation, being the child of an adult refugee may be traumatic. But it is more damaging when laws enacted in the new host countries fail to take refugee children into account, which in turn could result in socioeconomic harm or gain for these children. In this policy analysis, the researcher intends to look at the socioeconomic outcomes of refugee children while trying to navigate their new home country. In essence, this analysis will use the multiple streams analysis framework to understand how refugee policies in the United States and Nigeria are enacted and their socioeconomic impact on refugee children.

Keywords: adult refugee; refugee children; socioeconomic; refugee Act; multiple streams analysis framework (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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