A peer education program for adolescent girls in refugee camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Coping with transitions

This chapter reports educational research undertaken in two refugee camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The study focused on adolescent girls whose education has been disrupted through departing Syria and living a new life as refugees. The girls had experienced ruptures to their lives: moving across a border (geographical transition), changing from their ‘home’ lifestyle to life in tents in refugee camps, separation from friends and family (social transition), and changes to the education on offer (educational transition). In addition, they were dealing with numerous other social issues, including abuse, harassment, restrictions on freedom of movement and choices, early