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Issues of identity and belonging are inseparable from the experience of immigration. Stories of immigrants, past and present, illuminate the human lives behind the ever-shifting global landscape we inhabit today.

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Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance

Standing Up to Hatred and Intolerance

Address today's global challenges with lesson plans focused on current events including the refugee crisis and contemporary antisemitism.

Aerial view of Za'atri Refugee camp.
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Justice & Human Rights

Understanding the Global Refugee Crisis

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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Global Immigration

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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Race & Membership/Eugenics
Global Immigration

No Más Bebés

Immigrant mothers sue county doctors, the state, and the U.S. government after they were tricked into sterilizations in the 1960s and 1970s.

Ukrainian Refugees crossing a fallen bridge
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Global Immigration

People’s and Government’s Choices to Help Refugees

Excerpts from DW and NPR shed light on how individuals and governments are thinking about their responsibility to help Ukrainian refugees and non-European refugees.

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Global Immigration
Justice & Human Rights

Student Activities: Different Perspectives on Migrant Detention

These student-facing slides lead students through activities that help them gain insight into migration and the systems surrounding migrant detention by considering different perspectives⁠.

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Justice & Human Rights

Student Activities: Teaching about the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis

These student-facing slides lead students through activities that introduce them to the experiences of Ukrainians forced to flee the war and raise ethical questions about the treatment of refugees in Europe.

Ukrainian refugees walk across a collapsed bridge.
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Global Immigration
Justice & Human Rights

Student Activities: Ukraine: Discussing the War and Refugee Crisis with Students

These student-facing slides lead students through activities that help them process how they are feeling about this devastating war, develop media literacy in what news they consume and how, and consider the experiences of Ukrainians forced to flee the war and ethical questions about the treatment of refugees in Europe.

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Global Immigration
Justice & Human Rights

Student Activities: Why Do People Migrate?

These student-facing slides lead students through activities that prompt them to reflect on stories of migration and learn about migration from El Salvador to the United States.

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Global Immigration
Race & Membership/Eugenics
Race in US History

Where Are You From From?

This is the story of ten children of immigrants living in Berlin and New York. Though they share similar experiences, they each have different identities.

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World map highlighting in green which countries recognize birthright citizenship.
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Justice & Human Rights
Global Immigration

Birthright Citizenship Worldwide (2015)

Who can be a citizen? Many countries recognize birthright citizenship, meaning that anyone born within a country's territory is automatically a citizen, even if the parents are not citizens. See full-sized image for analysis.

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Global Immigration
Justice & Human Rights

Different Perspectives on Migrant Detention

In this Teaching Idea, students gain insight into migration and the systems surrounding migrant detention by considering the perspectives⁠ of migrants, an immigration lawyer and advocate, a border guard, and an immigration judge.

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