Monthly Archives: March 2020

I chose an article called “Forced Displacement: Refugees, Internally Displaced, and Host Communities” because it explains the impact of displacement on people including the mental health. There are “about 70.8 million refugees, internally displaced persons and asylum seekers” around the world. The reasons for these people to escape the place where there live are normally because they are being persecuted, or there is violence on the place they used to live, basically to escape violence. The “physical impact” they suffer is that they lose their homes and their neighborhoods to look for protection. But people do not normally see the impact on the mental health of the people, “Many suffer from trauma, and women and girls are at high risk of gender-based violence”. Displaced people suffer traumas and there is the possibility of suffering in the new places because “Accommodating the sudden arrival of masses of newcomers presents a challenge for host governments, putting further pressure on their ability to deliver basic services and infrastructure” There are so many people escaping that it is difficult to find enough services to keep them safe and healthy.

https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/forced-displacement