Contextualising emotional well-being for conflict-affected populations: A study from the Thai-Myanmar Border

This paper examines the factors that migrant and displaced children from Myanmar consider essential to their emotional well-being. It underscores the importance of locally contextualised assessments of well-being and presents findings from a survey conducted across ten Migrant Learning Centres (MLCs) in Thailand to develop a framework identifying the positive and negative criteria of well-being that conflict-affected children prioritise in this context. In conducting such studies, actors working to support vulnerable groups can collect information to inform more effective and relevant responses to support children’s emotional well-being.