Migration and Sustainable Development: Implications on Schools and Teachers (Session 1 of 2)

Course Description

Migration is not a new phenomenon. However, it has become a pressing issue due to the seemingly large number of people who are leaving their native land to seek a better life elsewhere. These sessions aim to explore what motivates or constrains people to migrate.  Moreover, we shall explore the links between migration and sustainable development.  Further into the session, the participants will consider the impact migration has on the host society, particularly on schools. 

Estimated Lesson Duration: 40 minutes

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Learning Outcomes

 By the end of the session participants will be able to: 

  • Identify the various reasons that push people to migrate; 
  • Explain what sustainable development is; 
  • Examine the link between migration and sustainable development;
  • List the implications of migration on host countries; 
  • List the implications of migration on schools;

The Session

Introduction

You have a set of texts to read (see below). Choose some of them (or all of them) and then identify the causes or reasons why these people left their homes as well as their feelings, which eventually pushed them to migrate (e.g. hope, fear, etc.)

Texts:

  • Home by Warsan Shires
  • Ulied in-Nanna Venut fl-Amerka
  • Migration due to climate change
  • Migration/Asylum seeking due to sexual orientation
  • Migration/Asylum seeking due to FGM
  • Migration due to violence
  • Migration due to sexual identity
  • Migration due to lack of maternal health care

Watch the PPT Presentation Why do people leave their home country?

From the stories you read in the introduction of the session, identify those who were clearly economic migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and environmental migrants. 

Watch the PPT presentation Sustainable Development to further explain what sustainable development entails.

Go back to the stories you read. You have already identified why these people left their homes. Now link these reasons to the environmental/social/economic issues. As you shall see, most of the time, it is not an individual’s issue, but a structural issue that leads to people leaving home.

Watch the video: Climate change and migration – How do they connect?

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Resources

Home by Warsan Shires
Ulied in-Nanna Venut fl-Amerka
Migration due to climate change
Migration/Asylum seeking due to sexual orientation
Migration/Asylum seeking due to FGM
Migration due to violence
Migration due to sexual identity
Migration due to lack of maternal health care
PPT Presentation: Sustainable Development
Video: Climate Change and Migration: How do they connect?

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