Refugees have found their way to foreign cities throughout history, but the numbers residing in urban centers have grown exponentially since the early part of this decade. Often able to blend in and surrounded by the city’s existing local public services and social networks, the self-sufficiency of urban refugees can be easily taken for granted. The fact they tend to be scattered widely across an urban sprawl merely adds to the perception that they are too difficult to identify and target for direct humanitarian assistance.
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Resource collections
- Topics
- UN Habitat - Urban Response Collection
- Urban Response - Urban Crisis Preparedness and Risk Reduction
- Urban Response Collection - Community Engagement and Social Cohesion
- Urban Response Collection - Economic Recovery
- Urban Response Collection - Environment and Climate Change
- Urban Response Collection - Housing, Land and Property
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Crisis Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Resilience
