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Refugee kids find more friends in diverse classrooms

Children living in Germany who had fled their home countries faced less rejection if their classes were ethnically mixed.
A young boy watches refugees from Afghanistan and Syria play volleyball on an improvised field at a refugee camp, Germany.

Refugees from Afghanistan and Syria play volleyball in a camp in Germany. Credit: Alexander Koerner/Getty

In 2021, nearly half of the people filing for protection as migrants in Germany were under the age of 18. Now, a study finds that young refugees who are placed in diverse classrooms become more socially integrated than those placed in more-homogeneous classes1.

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Nature 617, 227 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01459-2

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  1. Boda, Z., Lorenz, G., Jansen, M., Stanat, P. & Edele, A. Nature Hum. Behav. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01577-x (2023).

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