The vast majority of these people, who come from a very diverse range of different ethnic, religious, political and language groups, live in insecure, unsafe conditions and face a number of serious health difficulties.
Despite such insecure conditions, ours is an optimistic and broadminded generation.
Some 200,000 Afghan refugees have been living in the remote border areas of Pakistan, in poor and insecure conditions.
The anxiety felt by workers whose livelihoods are held hostage to insecure conditions has dangerous consequences – workers reporting that they are scared to report bullying, sexual harassment and dangerous safety conditions for fear their shifts will just be taken away.
Like Jordan and Iraq previously, Turkey now only allows a limited number of Syrians to enter, leaving tens of thousands stranded in miserable and insecure conditions on the other side of the border.
He feels his university takes advantage of the eagerness of young academics who will do lots of unpaid work and accept insecure conditions just to get their foot in the door.
Sent to live in primitive and insecure conditions in the Afghan hinterland, the teams were given responsibilities disproportionate to their size and the relative youth of many of their members.
In over five years of field work, I have experienced direct threats to my life, lived in extremely insecure conditions with strict security measures which led to isolation, sustained unreasonable rest and recuperation (R&R) policies and worked an average of 60-65 hours per week for over three years without significant breaks.
Try to keep thinking of people with very little money living in cramped and insecure conditions, or "priced out" teachers, nurses, cooks and even solicitors as I endeavour to explain why the two new documents matter and how the mayor's housing policy experts think they will help.
The figures also show that one in five employed women with dependent children work without any paid leave entitlements at all – twice the rate of men – while more than 40% of women but less than 15% of men work in part-time jobs, which tend to have more insecure conditions.
