Students use videos and readings featuring US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power to develop a historical and human understanding of today’s global refugee crisis.
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Hope Frye's Testimony on Child Migrant Detention
Immigration lawyer Hope Frye describes the conditions at child migrant detention centers in her congressional hearing testimony.
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Religion and Belonging
Explore the relationship between religious identity and belonging with these accounts of Asian migrants in Britain.
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Talking About Religion
Eboo Patel reflects on how religion impacts his identity and a time in his past when he was a bystander.
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Two Who Dared
Learn how the Sharps' rescue work began with a phone call from the American Unitarian community asking for their leadership in the refugee crisis in Prague, 1939.
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Developing Student Voice, Character, and Civic Agency
This middle school curriculum leads students in an examination of identity, membership and belonging, and civic participation through an analysis of historical case studies and literature.
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Religion, Immigration, and Belonging
Very few of us can now claim to have just one national or ethnic identity. Increasingly, we share some parts of our identity with people who live elsewhere. Globalization has also changed our perception of who is like us and who is different. In this section we will explore how people’s sense of belonging and identity are changing.
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What is Migration? An Explainer
This Explainer presents statistics on migration around the world and defines key terms such as migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker.
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Why Do People Migrate?
Exploring why people migrate is essential to understanding migration at the US–Mexico border. Use these activities to examine migration from El Salvador to the US and the factors that drive migration.
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