EQ: What are forced Migrations and refugees?

Bell-ringer: What are 3 examples of “forced” migration? What are 3 examples of “voluntary” migration?

What is the difference?

Forced Migration

• Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate

African Slave Trade

Photo of slave ship

Picture of Native Americans forced West by Andrew Jackson’s soldiers

TRAIL OF TEARS (Indian Removal Act)

Palestinians removed from Palestine

“Boat People”People fleeing islands in the Caribbean and S.E. Asia (places where there are a lot of islands)

Haitians sailing towards Florida

Refugees

• Look back at your notes and rewrite in your own words a definition for “refugee”

• How do refugees decide where to go?• How do refugees get to their destination?

Write down thingsYou see in the Following pictures.

Afghan Refugees

Refugees in East Africa

Palestinians forced off their land – 1948 “Al Nakba”

UN reports 45 million refugees worldwideWhat do you notice about where refugees come from and the distance

they migrate?

EQ: What are refugee camps?

Bell ringer: When people are forced to leave their homeland, what do you think happens to them? Where do they live? How do they get there?

Palestinian Refugees

The circles are refugee camps

Refugee Camp: temporary housing for refugees; often in neighboring countries. Supported by United Nations

Palestinian Refugee Camp reading

Video Questions• Why do the boys have to leave their homes? • Where do they go to and how long are they there

for?• Why are they able to leave?• What types of things do they need to learn about

once in America?• What emotional hardships (feelings) do the boys

experience once in America?

Video: “God grew tired of us”

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-JrOXwGWzM

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuwLkvepaJM&feature=relmfu