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BOSTON UNIVERSITY'S
Initiative on Forced Displacement
PEDAGOGY / RESEARCH / GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT
- EST. 2019 -
summer events
IFD SUMMER INTERNSHIP & SEMESTER FELLOWSHIPS
PROGRAMS
SUMMER 2022
1
IN LEBANON,
5
OUT OF EVERY
79.5 MILLION PEOPLE DISPLACED
45.7 million
INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE
REFUGEES
26 million
20.4 million under UNHCR's mandate
5.6 million Palestinian refugees under
UNRWA's mandate
ASYLUM-
SEEKERS
4.2 million
80%
ABOUT 80% OF REFUGEES LIVE IN COUNTRIES NEIGHBORING THEIR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
FORCED MIGRATION TODAY
VENEZUELANS DISPLACED ABROAD
3.6 million
PEOPLE ARE
REFUGEES
COLOMBIA IS HOME TO THE LARGET POPULATION OF IDPs
7,816,472
out of 9,015,122 FDP
3rd
UGANDA IS THE
LARGEST REFUGEE HOST
WITH ABOUT
1.2 million
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