“This group is essential to our survival”: urban refugees and community-based protection

Abstract

Nearly 60% of all refugees now live in cities, a trend that will continue as camps increasingly become an option of last resort. Already, this urban shift is catalysing monumental changes across the sector, including in how humanitarians think about, and embark upon, community-based protection.

Keywords

• refugee
• IDP
• stateless
• internal displacement
• forced migration
• migration
• local communities
• protection
• community
• community-based protection
• cities