A Hard Path to Hope Facing Reality Reading Comprehension Answer Key. Compréhension orale, Spaces and Exchanges: Climate refugees (avec script) Charlie Winston - #SAYSOMETHING. Passport, lifejacket, lemons: what Syrian refugees pack for the crossing to Europe. Two Billion Miles: interactive video story. Diary of a Teenage Refugee. LearnEnglish MagazineArticle Refugees. How To Increase Empathy Towards Refugees? Serious Games Might Provide An Answer.
Videogames and migration: to some, this might sound like an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms. Games are fun. Migration, the kind we are used to discuss nowadays, the refugee kind, is anything but. It's people sinking and dying while clumped in small ships; it's families destroyed, part of them waiting for others to send a sign, telling they are still alive and that their search for a better life didn't end up too soon. Hard to imagine someone playing with such serious stuff. Except that it happens, in a number of what are usually called, not by chance, "serious games", games that have the purpose not only to entertain, but also to inform, educated, increase one's own understanding of an issue.
Games such as Survival, by Spanish startup Omnium Lab in collaboration with the PeaceApp program of the Alliance of Civilizations of the United Nations. Syrian Journey: Choose your own escape route. Climate refugees? Where's the dignity in that? This week the Guardian has been running a major series on "climate refugees" about the village of Newtok in Alaska, which faces an imminent threat to its existence from erosion.
The term is problematic for a number of reasons. The first being that people who are facing movement do not like the term. The word "refugee" brings to mind a number of (not always accurate) images: tented camps, long lines of people walking, dangerous boat crossings. People facing the prospect moving hope that they will have some choice in the timing and circumstances of their movement and that when they arrive they will find work and become active members of their new communities. Their hope is that they will move with dignity. President Anote Tong of Kiribati, an island nation in the Pacific, told Australia's ABC Radio that the people of Kiribati do not want to leave as refugees but as skilled migrants. Apart from people's own rejection of the "climate refugee" term there are also several other problems.
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Click on the links above or see the activities below this article: Mail this lesson to friends and teachers. Click the @ below. The problem of refugees is ________________ bigger. In fact, it is such a problem that there are now many ________________ refugees. The pboelrm of refugees is getting bigger and bigger. Refugees getting The of is bigger problem and bigger. DISCUSSION (Write your own questions) Write five GOOD questions about refugees in the table. When you have finished, interview other students. Now return to your original partner and share and talk about what you found out. Write about refugees for 10 minutes. Most Shocking Second a Day Video. Escape from Syria: Rania's odyssey – video. A poem about refugees you need to read - UNHCR Innovation.
Following the November 2015 Paris attacks, a wave of anti-refugee sentiment made its way overseas to the United States as multiple governors and Congressmen began expressing an unwillingness to accept Syrian refugees.
To Jason Fotso―eighteen years old at the time―this shut-door stance contradicted the longstanding U.S. policy of welcoming in refugees, and more symbolically, the sonnet inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. He sought to capture this spirit in a dual-perspective piece, one that would transform the very words of antagonism into those of empathy: an original poem, entitled “the refugees.” The Refugees, authored by Jason Fotso. (Follow the punctuation, ignore the spacing.) Turn away the refugees. Open up our homes and hearts for children. Fear behind our love can put strength in our hands. Nation. Enemy. 21st Century Ep # 117 - A special edition on refugees and migrants.
Desperate to reach Britain: three migrants stuck in Calais explain how they got there. First he took a bus to Khartoum.
From there, he began the long journey up to Cairo - walking, hitch-hiking, and traversing the desert for 18 days. With a group of Sudanese he met in the Egyptian capital, he crossed through Sinai and reached the border with Israel. "There's a big fence on the border, so we climbed up it," he said. "But then the Egyptian police started shooting at us. " He made it across, and finished his journey on foot, where he arrived in Tel Aviv and found work as a cleaner in the business district of Or Yehuda. Why did he leave? "They don't like black people there," he said, raising his eyebrows.
So Mr Hassan, with his savings, flew back to Sudan to return to his family and hopefully find work there. "But when I got back no one left me in peace. "Some of my friends laughed when they saw me and said 'I thought you'd gone to England! ' This time his journey took him further; to the coast at Port Sudan, and then across into Egypt. Syrian refugees tell of perilous journey to Hungary: 'We've lost everything' – audio.