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The Refugee Project Every day, all over the world, ordinary people must flee their homes for fear of death or persecution. Many leave without notice, taking only what they can carry. Many will never return. They cross oceans and minefields, they risk their lives and their futures. The Refugee Project looks beyond the crises that are currently making headlines and allows viewers to explore all refugee migrations around the world since 1975. About the Data Under international law, the United Nations is responsible for protecting asylum seekers around the world. The Refugee Project does not consider the large number of economic migrants and other undocumented populations, nor does it show the millions of internally displaced persons in troubled countries around the world. Recognition The Refugee Project was selected for MoMA’s Design and Violence exhibition, where it was written about by the UNHCR’s High Comissioner, António Guterres. Compare refugee population visually by country

Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today and Ellis Island World War II and the Postwar Period The United States entered World War II in 1942. During the war, immigration decreased. There was fighting in Europe, transportation was interrupted, and the American consulates weren't open. Also because of the war, the Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed in 1943. I believe that the admission of these persons will add to the strength and energy of the Nation." Learn More 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. Games such as Survival, by Spanish startup Omnium Lab in collaboration with the PeaceApp program of the Alliance of Civilizations of the United Nations. So, don't expect anything too sophisticated in terms of graphics, or immersive. A great tool, especially for teachers, to put their students in the shoes of these people, to try, as the Omnium Lab staff says, "to change the focus, the perspective with which this problem is analyzed in our social contexts". A screenshot from Bury me, my love.IcoMedia

Ten things you didn’t know about refugees With 45.2 million displaced by violence, persecution or rights abuses, the number of refugees is higher than at any time since 1994, says UNHCR Today is World Refugee Day - and the latest statistics from the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) show world refugee numbers are higher than at any time since 1994. As U.N. refugee chief Antonio Gutteres put it at a recent news conference: “Each time you blink, another person is forced to flee.” UNHCR’s annual report shows that some 45.2 million people were uprooted by violence, persecution or rights abuses as of the end of last year, but the numbers also challenge some common misconceptions about refugees and displacement. Here are 10 things you may not have known. 1. Until you do, you’re just a person who’s been uprooted within your own country - or an internally displaced person (IDP), to use the aid world jargon. The difference matters because it’s only by crossing a border that you gain the protection of international laws and conventions. 2. 3. 4.

Fakebook Lesson Plan - Creating Facebook Profiles for Historical Figures I love to engage my middle school students by incorporating one of their favorite things: social media. And one of their all-time favorites is the Fakebook project. Here’s how it works: Students use their notes to create a Facebook-style social media profile for a historical figure. What I love most about this assignment is that it allows students to express their humor and creativity. A Fakebook lesson plan, step by step The directions, rubric, and examples here accompany my sixth grade world history unit on ancient Egypt. Directions Here’s a list of what I ask my students to include in their Fakebook profiles: A profile pictureFive Facebook-style statuses. Materials I encourage my students to create their Fakebook page using a small piece of poster board, construction paper, Google Docs (format: two columns), or Google Drawings to keep it simple. My more tech-savvy kids sometimes use other programs, if they are familiar with them. Rubric

Climate refugees? Where's the dignity in that? | Environment 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.

Why Flee Syria? With the refugee crisis worsening as many Syrians attempt to flee to Europe, many people may find themselves wondering just how the war in that country got so bad, and why so many are fleeing now. Here, then, is a very brief history of the war, written so that anyone can understand it: Syria is a relatively new country: Its borders were constructed by European powers in the 1920s, mashing together several ethnic and religious groups. Since late 1970, a family from one of those smaller groups — the Assads, who are Shia Alawites — have ruled the country in a brutal dictatorship. Bashar al-Assad has been in power since 2000. This regime appeared stable, but when Arab Spring protests began in 2011, it turned out not to be. On March 18, Syrian security forces opened fire on peaceful protestors in the southern city of Deraa, killing three. Perhaps inevitably, Syrians took up arms to defend themselves. It worked. By 2014, Syria was divided between government, rebel, ISIS, and Kurdish forces.

english Donneur de voix : Ahikar | Durée : 2h 49min | Genre : Théâtre À la suite d’une bataille victorieuse, le valeureux Macbeth, sujet du roi Duncan d’Écosse, rencontre trois sorcières qui le désignent comme thane de Glamis, ce qu’il est effectivement, thane de Cawdor, et futur roi. Peu de temps après, Macbeth est informé que le roi, en récompense de son courage et de sa dévotion, le fait thane de Cawdor… Les spécialistes s’accordent pour fixer la date de composition de la pièce en 1606. Le sujet est tiré des Chroniques de Holinshed. Au fond, il rejoint entièrement un autre très grand poète, celui des Impératives, al-Maʿarrī qui écrit : « Ne prends pas pour vérité la prophétie, ce n’est qu’un mensonge couché par écrit. » Ces deux hommes-là sont frères intérieurement, al-Maʿarrī est aussi grand que Shakespeare, mais il est amusant de voir que le plus audacieux des deux n’est pas Shakespeare !

Listen A Minute: English Listening Lesson on Refugees Try the online quiz, reading, listening, and activities on grammar, spelling and vocabulary for this lesson on Refugees. 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. 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. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Refugee or migrant Refugee or Migrant - word choice matters. © UNHCR GENEVA, July 11 (UNHCR) – With more than 65 million people forcibly displaced globally and boat crossings of the Mediterranean still regularly in the headlines, the terms 'refugee' and 'migrant' are frequently used interchangeably in media and public discourse. But is there a difference between the two, and does it matter? Yes, there is a difference, and it does matter. Refugees are persons fleeing armed conflict or persecution. Refugees are defined and protected in international law. The protection of refugees has many aspects. Migrants choose to move not because of a direct threat of persecution or death, but mainly to improve their lives by finding work, or in some cases for education, family reunion, or other reasons. For individual governments, this distinction is important. Politics has a way of intervening in such debates. In fact, they happen to be both. By Adrian Edwards, Geneva