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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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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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Justice & Human Rights
Different Perspectives on Migrant Detention
Deepen students’ understanding of the issue of migrant detention by having them consider the diverse perspectives of detained migrants, an immigration lawyer, a border guard, and an immigration judge.
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Race in US History
Family Separation at the U.S. Border
Inform students about the Trump administration’s family separation policy and help them emotionally process the human side of this news story.
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Race in US History
Lost in Translation
Rapper Ruby Ibarra reflects on her Filipino-American experience and the role of language in this spoken-word poem.
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Justice & Human Rights
Global Immigration
Secularity and Religious Identity: The French Headscarf Dilemma
Scholars explain the history of secularity in France, where it is the State's role to protect individual freedom of conscience and respect of all faiths by keeping religion out of the public sphere.
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Global Immigration
Justice & Human Rights
What Is Our Obligation To Asylum Seekers?
Help students understand how the United States’ complex asylum process works. Invite them to consider the question, who has an obligation to asylum seekers?
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