Beydoun Zahraa, Abdulrahim Sawsan, Sakr George
Department of Health Promotion and Community Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
J Int Migr Integr. 2021;22(4):1207-1219. doi: 10.1007/s12134-020-00793-y. Epub 2021 Jan 4.
Following the Syrian conflict that began in 2011, Lebanon received more than one million refugees including 44,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria (PRS). PRS children were integrated into existing schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Despite efforts by UNRWA to integrate the newly displaced into its services in Lebanon, only 58% of 6-18-year-old PRS children were enrolled in school in 2014. Informed by ecological systems theory, we examined the role of parental characteristics in determining school enrollment among PRS children following displacement into Lebanon. Utilizing data from the 2014 UNRWA Vulnerability Assessment ( = 12,378 6-18-year-old children), we specified crude and adjusted logistic regression models to predict child school non-enrollment including a set of variables on head of family characteristics (gender, age, education, and presence/absence of chronic disease) and post-displacement household characteristics (crowding, wealth, camp residence, region, and type of dwelling). The results show that, adjusting for household characteristics, a child living in a family whose head has secondary education or higher is more likely to be enrolled in school compared to one living in a family headed by someone with less than secondary education. Parental education remains the strongest predictor of child school enrollment despite displacement-related household disadvantage. To break the cycle of intergenerational educational disadvantage, it is critical for UNRWA to proactively design school retention programs for PRS children living in families whose head had limited access to education.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12134-020-00793-y.
2011年叙利亚冲突爆发后，黎巴嫩接收了超过100万难民，其中包括44000名来自叙利亚的巴勒斯坦难民（PRS）。PRS儿童被纳入联合国近东巴勒斯坦难民救济和工程处（近东救济工程处）管理的现有学校。尽管近东救济工程处努力将新流离失所者纳入其在黎巴嫩的服务，但2014年6至18岁的PRS儿童中只有58%入学。基于生态系统理论，我们研究了父母特征在确定PRS儿童流离失所进入黎巴嫩后的入学情况中的作用。利用2014年近东救济工程处脆弱性评估的数据（n = 12378名6至18岁儿童），我们指定了粗略和调整后的逻辑回归模型来预测儿童未入学情况，包括一组关于家庭户主特征（性别、年龄、教育程度和慢性病的有无）以及流离失所后家庭特征（拥挤程度、财富、营地居住情况、地区和居住类型）的变量。结果表明，在调整家庭特征后，与生活在户主教育程度低于中学的家庭中的儿童相比，生活在户主具有中学或更高教育程度家庭中的儿童更有可能入学。尽管存在与流离失所相关的家庭不利因素，但父母教育仍然是儿童入学的最强预测因素。为了打破代际教育不利的循环，近东救济工程处积极为生活在户主受教育机会有限家庭中的PRS儿童设计留校计划至关重要。
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