ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic is having broad-ranging, long-term humanitarian and socioeconomic impacts on migrant and displaced children who are trying to retain some form of education. In this chapter, children, teachers and parents shared their experiences about education or lack of education during the pandemic but also were more concerned about the fear of discrimination and xenophobia directed at them in such times. Sound policies and urgent actions are required to put migrant and displaced children in schools or at least to try to stay in each country’s education system, at the forefront of preparedness, prevention and response to COVID-19. Careful planning is needed. Interventions must be contextualised and must respond to learners’ needs, and communities and teachers should be involved in the planning and development processes.
