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Migration 2018: What's currently happening?
Society, Politics & Law

Migration 2018: What's currently happening?

...refugees entered Europe by sea through the first 24 weeks of 2018. That total compares to 80,683 at this time last year, and over 215,000 at this time in 2016. [Graphic supporting the text] In other words: Mediterranean arrivals at this point in 2018 are running at under half last year’s level on this date, and about 18 per cent of 2016’s volume at this point in the...
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What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...refugees trying to learn German in Berlin describes five hard-working people who are keen to learn German; not a trace of refusal or resistance to learning the language can be heard in their voices. Even so, the outcome of their language learning efforts is far from impressive. The youngest in the group, 16-year-old Noor, seems to be making the best progress but even she...
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Hitler's rise and fall: Timeline
History & The Arts

Hitler's rise and fall: Timeline

...refugee in Paris. It is actually orchestrated by the Nazi party who also kill many Jews and send 20,000 to concentration camps. Crystal Night is considered to be the beginning of the Final Solution and the Holocaust, which you can study in more depth. The mass killing represented by the Holocaust raises many questions concerning the development of European civilisation...
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Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...refugee camp. They are visited by an assigned counsel, Claude Tomate de la Beletterie, a weasel, who declares that she will find a solution to free them. Since she cannot understand the crawfish, she is helped by an interpreter who turns out to be Télesphore, now a political refugee and free. With her legal training, Claude issues a request to have the crawfish also...
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Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...Refugee and Asylum Seeking Children: A Systematic Review’, PLOS ONE, 9(2). Available from: https://journals.plos.org/ plosone/ article?id=10.1371/ journal.pone.0089359 (Accessed 24 September 2020). Zandt, F. and Barrett, S. (2017) Creative ways to help children manage big feelings: A therapist’s guide to working with preschool and primary children. London and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...asylum seekers (Education Scotland, 2018). In the Further learning section at the end of this session you can find out more about their activities and the people and groups they worked with...Session 5: Peace in the world: 4.1 Finding suitable books - There are organisations that recommend books that might be used in peace education. Some of these are listed in the course...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
One belief, big impact: could your view of learning improve inclusive practice?
Education & Development

One belief, big impact: could your view of learning improve inclusive practice?

...refugee background is labelled as having ‘language difficulties’. While this may highlight a legitimate need, it also risks framing the student through a deficit lens. What might happen if, instead, we asked: What strengths does this learner bring? What experiences, resilience and perspectives could enrich the learning community? This reframing could transform not...
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Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...seekers in Bali’s pubs and clubs. In contrast to these individual and community-led strategies, we also met communities that were, or had been engaged in government-sponsored initiatives and investment. This included more than one failed attempt to establish commercial seaweed farms, even though these had thrived in other locations. On another island, almost the entire...
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