Child poverty in humanitarian contexts: comparing children among refugees and host communities

Ibrahim Kasirye and Gemma Ahaibwe

Chapter 21 in Handbook on Child Poverty and Inequality, 2025, pp 348-362 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Child poverty and deprivation in refugee camps and host communities in Uganda are compared in this chapter. This is done by applying the consensus/socially perceived needs approach to find out which items people consider essential to own, access, or use in order not to be in poverty. This information has been gathered for host communities as well as among refugees. For the latter, the results are disaggregated according to the number of years they have been refugees. It is established that people consider basically the same elements to be essential in both circumstances, i.e. there is wide social agreement about the minimum elements children should have to avoid poverty both among refugees and among host communities. In terms of actual deprivations, children from refugee families are worse off than children in host communities.

Keywords: Refugees; Host communities; Humanitarian situation; Consensus approach; Socially perceived needs; Livelihoods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802200423
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