Migration

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Travel & Migration

What do you know about migration?

What is the difference between passports and visa?

Which countries have the most powerful passport?

Which countries have the least powerful passport?

Passport Index

Go to https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php

and compare the passports of at least five countries.

Which country has the most powerful passport, and why?

How is the Netherlands doing?

What reasons can you
think of for people
migrating?

Push-factors:

Lack of schools, healthcare etc.

Being unsafe

Poverty

High levels of crime

Crops failing

Disasters

Conflict/war

Pull-factors:

Better work

Good schools, healthcare etc.

Safer

Less crime

Better climate

Political stability

Fertile (vruchtbaar) land

Less risk of disasters

push or pull?

Would you like to live abroad? What would make you move to another country?

If we would look back 500 years in own families, what is the percentage of people who has foreign ancestors?

1. 24%
2. 48%
3. 74%
4. 98%

Migration Stories

Almost all of us have family members that were born abroad.

It is like a shared history to us.

Think about your own (extended) family. In the padlet on the next slide you are able to pinpoint all the geographical places where you have family.

padlet.com

Ellis Island

In the 1950s about half a million people left the Netherlands, looking for a better future in Canada, USA, Australia and NZ.

Let's have a look whether you have any family members that left the Netherlands for the USA

Migration Bingo

There are many different migration stories,

See if you can get a bingo by learning the stories of your classmates.

Discuss the following questions with your neighbour

•  “What was the experience of flight or migration of the families in the class? Is there more than you expected? 
• Did you or your classmates know about this migration before? What was the experience of those family members? How did it affect their lives? How old were they? Did they go to school or did they work?
  

A Story

Who should go?

What will you bring with you?

Seating Chart

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How many refugees are there currently worldwide?

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A refugee is...

“someone who is unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.”

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people.

Diary of a Refugee

The Assignment

Write (part of) a diary from the perspective of a teenager that is forced to leave a country.

Due Date

24 November

Writing a Diary Entry

• Start with 'Dear Diary/Name’.
• Write in the past tense.
• Use pronouns like I, my and me to show that the events happened to you.
• Describe the places where the events happened.
• Talk about how you were feeling or what you were thinking when each event happened.

Naema (17) marries her Dutch fiancee (22) from NL. After the wedding they plan to live in Utrecht

1. Welcome
2. Not welcome

Yosief Berekte (19) flees from his birth country Eritrea to avoid military duty. This duty is mandatory and sometimes lifelong.

1. Welcome
2. Not welcome

A 26 year old man from the USA says he was held in prison unjustly and was tortured over there. After his release he fled to the Netherlands

1. Welcome
2. Not welcome

Said (27) fled from violence in Syria.

1. Welcome
2. Not welcome

A 30 year old Frenchman from Algerian background goes to the Netherlands to work

1. Welcome
2. Not welcome

Freedom of Movement is a basic human right (UDHR), therefore everyone should have the right to choose where they live.

What does integration mean?

When is someone's integration 'finished'?

Bring the class together again, ask students to share their answers to this last question. Ask students what

they know about forced migration happening now, and share some of the information in teacher's

introduction to build on their knowledge. (10 minutes)

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What is UNICEF?

UNICEF, acronym of United Nations Children's Fund, formerly (1946–53) United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, special program of the United Nations (UN) devoted to aiding national efforts to improve the health, nutrition, education, and general welfare of children

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What are some of the ideas that you have come up with?

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