UNESCO Report on migration and education: Turkey hosted the most
The focus of the UNESCO’s 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report is on migration and the social policies pertaining specifically to their education and assimilation. Titled Migration, displacement & education: Building Bridges, Not Walls, and the report explores the education policy measures undertaken by host countries for migrants and refugees. The report is published by UN but is independently funded and staffed. The report highlights the efforts by countries such as Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey for inclusive refugee education policies, where almost a third of the world’s refugees are hosted, over half of whom are over the age of 18. At the end of 2017, seven countries hosted 51% of the world’s 19.9 million refugees, excluding Palestinian refugees. Turkey hosted the most (3.5 million). In addition, 5.4 million Palestinian refugees lived in four countries. In total, low and middle income countries hosted about 89% o...