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Unit Plan
University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Immigration: Refugees in Contemporary Global Migration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The following sources include a news report in 2007 on Iraqi refugees in Sweden and interviews in 1998 of Hmong refugees living in Minnesota. Its goal is to explore the refugee experience, both from an international or geopolitical...
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Website
US Department of State

U.s. Dept. Of State: Trafficking in Persons 2006 Report

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete report in which the practice of human trafficking is reviewed both here in this country and around the world. The report acknowledges that progress is being made in ending human slavery but that is still continues.
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Gamze Kati Gumus, "Disposable: Immigrant Bodies in Contemporary Politics"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the fate of immigrants and refugees during a time of political efforts to stop undocumented immigrants from entering the US. It focuses on the drowning of the Kurdi brothers.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Problems Facing Internally Displaced Persons Worldwide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use video segments from the PBS series Women, War & Peace, as well as information from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the United Nations to learn more about internally displaced populations.
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: How the End of the Vietnam War Led to a Refugee Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
The fall of Saigon in April 1975 marked the close of the war, but also the beginning of one of the largest and longest refugee crises in history. Over the next two decades -- from 1975 to 1995 -- more than three million people fled...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Global Oneness Project: A Refugee's Story (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students watch a 19-minute documentary that tells the story of Mohammed Alsaleh, a young Syrian refugee granted asylum in Canada in 2014, who is now counseling newly arrived refugees. In this lesson plan, students explore through...