Global Immigration

Created in partnership with Girl Rising, this teaching idea invites students to engage with the story of a young refugee and to consider the power of storytelling to spark empathy.

Featuring the personal narratives of young migrants, this resource challenges students to reflect on the ways that migration affects personal identity.

This section focuses on France, where Islam—the religion of many North African immigrants and their French sons and daughters—has become the subject of many public discussions. In particular, we will examine the recent debate over headscarves in French state-run schools. This discussion, while involving particular dynamics and histories, echoes larger global conversations about religion, identity and integration and reveals varying understandings of what different social groups and societies need to do to integrate people of diverse ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds.

Get the 6-week unit created for a middle school Language Arts class using our content and Literacy Design Collaborative’s task templates.

Use recent photographs to help students connect to the experiences of migrants and to better understand the scale of global migration.