The Uprooted: Refugees and The United States
224The Uprooted: Refugees and The United States
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Overview
Despite the United States' historic role as "Mother of Exiles," most American cannot distinguish between a refugee and an immigrant. At a time when powerful voices are questioning the nation's ability and obligation to accommodate those who have come to the U.S. (between 1975 and 1992 more than 1.7 million refugees were resettled in the United States), this legal and moral distinction becomes imperative.
Refugees do not want to leave their country. The forces that drive them to flee are human rights issues: armed conflict, economic and social injustice, and political persecution. A complex subject like refugees—and how they must be treated—requires education and needs to be approached through many disciplines and thoughtful examinations.
Teaching sensitivity and awareness
Written by members of Amnesty International, this teaching guide offers educators and group leaders information, activities, and strategies for teaching about refugees in the United States. The material is appropriate for any learning setting: schools, adult civic groups, youth organizations, or English as a Second Language (ESL) courses.
The goal of The Uprooted program is to help students examine the plight of refugees by providing information, building empathy, stimulating social action, and exploring different paths toward conflict resolution. Activities have been developed to:
- Put a human face on facts about political and economic instability, and examine the emotional trauma of flight, loss, and exclusion.
- Promote informed, critical thinking as a function of U.S. and world citizenship.
- Affirm a humane concept of justice and look at the responsibility everyone has to respect and protect the rights of others.
- Help students express themselves with verbal precision and factual accuracy.
- Show ways to approach other complex global and national issues.
All of the activities can be used independently, and each is accompanied by full background information, ready-to-use handouts (such as flash cards and maps) that can be copied for students or reproduced as overhead transparencies, estimated time needed, and suggestions for further studies and action by students. Also included are a teaching bibliography and filmography, a list of refugee organizations, and resources, and a copy of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.
All royalties from the purchase of this book go to the non-profit organization Amnesty International, and support their ongoing struggle for human rights around the world.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780897931229 |
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Publisher: | TURNER PUB CO |
Publication date: | 12/01/1995 |
Edition description: | 1st ed |
Pages: | 224 |
Product dimensions: | 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d) |
Age Range: | 12 - 17 Years |
Table of Contents
List of Activities | xi | |
Preface | xii | |
Part I | Introduction | |
Background | 2 | |
Why Learn about Refugees? | ||
Goals of This Curriculum | ||
Using This Curriculum | ||
Learning about Refugees: An Overview | ||
Activities | ||
1. | Fact or Fiction? An Introductory Activity | 9 |
Handout 1 | Fact or Fiction? Cards | |
Handout 2 | Information Cards | |
2. | What's the News? A Current-Events and Geography Activity | 14 |
3. | "Three Strikes--You're Out!" An Introduction to Refugee Studies | 16 |
Handout 3 | Asylum Application | |
Handout 4 | Where Do They Come From? Where Do They Go? | |
Handout 5 | U.S. Admissions Statistics | |
Handout 6 | Resettlement and Asylum Statistics | |
4. | Packing Your Suitcase: A Simulation Activity | 24 |
Part II | Refugees and U.S. History | |
Background | 29 | |
Historical Overview of Global Refugee Movements | ||
Refugees in U.S. History | ||
Handout 7 | U.S. Immigration and Refugee Policy Timeline | |
Handout 8 | Growth of a Nation: A Historical Perspective on Immigrants and Refugees in the United States | |
Activities | ||
5. | Jewish Refugees from Eastern Europe: 1890-1990: Case Studies in Changing Policy and Circumstances | 44 |
Handout 9 | Jewish Refugees from Eastern Europe: 1890-1990, Historical Overview | |
Handout 10 | Jewish Refugees from Eastern Europe: 1890-1990, Case Studies | |
6. | From Exclusion to Acceptance: Restrictions Against Asian Immigrants and Refugees During the Last 150 Years | 56 |
Handout 11 | From Exclusion to Acceptance: Restrictions Against Asian Immigrants ... | |
7. | Getting the Words Right: A Vocabulary Activity Using Immigration and Refugee Terms | 64 |
Handout 12 | Getting the Words Right: A Vocabulary Activity... | |
8. | Interpreting Cartoons: Refugees in the United States as Seen Through Editorial Cartoons | 69 |
Handout 13 | Refugees in Political Cartoons | |
9. | The Numbers Tell the Story: Interpreting Timelines and Charts | 74 |
Handout 14 | The Numbers Tell the Story: Interpreting Timelines and Charts | |
Part III | Refugees and the United States Today | |
Background | 79 | |
United States Refugee and Asylum Policy | ||
Applying for Refugee Status and Asylum in the United States | ||
Activities | ||
10. | United States Refugee Law: Case Studies of Refugees in the United States | 88 |
Handout 15 | Interpreting U.S. Refugee Law (Part 1): The Case of Canas-Segovia ... | |
Handout 16 | Interpreting U.S. Refugee Law (Part 2): The Decision of the Ninth Circuit Court ... | |
Handout 17 | A Well-Founded Fear of Persecution? The Case of Florvil Samedi | |
11. | You Be the Judge: A Mock Trial to Determine Eligibility for Asylum | 98 |
12. | How Far Should We Open the Door? Judging Criteria for Deciding How Many Refugees to Admit | 100 |
Handout 18 | How Far Should We Open the Door? | |
13. | Are Some More Equal than Others? Evaluating Who Should be Granted Asylum | 104 |
Handout 19 | Are Some More Equal that Others? | |
14. | How Generous Are We? Statistics about Refugee Assistance and Asylum | 107 |
Handout 20 | Who's Paying the Bill? | |
Handout 21 | Top Donors to Refugee Relief in 1993 | |
Handout 22 | Asylum Cases Filed with U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service Directors | |
15. | Locking Up Refugees? Practicing and Analyzing Discussion Skills | 112 |
Handout 23 | Detention of Persons Seeking Asylum in the United States | |
16. | Sanctuary and the Law: A Decision-Making Activity | 117 |
Handout 24 | The Sanctuary Movement in the United States | |
Handout 25 | A Case of Sanctuary | |
17. | Crossing the Schoolhouse Border: Determining Responsibility for Helping Refugees Adjust to a New School | 125 |
Handout 26 | Voices of Refugee Schoolchildren | |
Handout 27 | My Story by "Rebeca Rivera" | |
18. | Calculating the Escape | 132 |
Handout 28 | Human Rights Abuses in Haiti | |
Handout 29 | Calculating the Escape: Problems | |
19. | Using the Movie El Norte in the Classroom: Discussion Questions and Suggested Activities | 141 |
Part IV | Refugees and Your Community | |
Background | 145 | |
Refugees in Your Community | ||
Organizations Working for Refugees | ||
Activities | ||
20. | Refugees in Your Community: A Cooperative Fact-Finding Activity | 151 |
Handout 30 | Refugees in Your Community: Assessing What You Already Know | |
Handout 31 | Refugees in Your Community: Verifying and Expanding Your Information | |
Handout 32 | Refugees in Your Community: Compiling Your Investigation Results | |
21. | You Can Do More: Activities Involving Refugees in Your Community | 162 |
22. | The Power of the Pen: A Letter-Writing Activity | 165 |
Handout 33 | Writing Letters that Have an Effect | |
Handout 34 | Facts for Letter Writing | |
Part V | Appendices | |
A. | Immigration and Refugee Terms | 172 |
B. | Refugees and the United States: A Teaching Bibliography | 175 |
C. | Refugee Filmography | 181 |
D. | Directory of Refugee Resources | 186 |
E. | The Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
Official Version | ||
Colloquial Version | 198 | |
Index | 205 |