UNIT 2 REFUGEES
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LEARNING OUTCOME
 The student will be able to consider multiple perspectives/sides of refugees
REFUGEE
 U.S. government defines refugee as, “any person who is outside any country of
such person’s nationality or, in the case of a person having no nationality, is outside
any country in which such person last habitually resides, and who is unable or
unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the
protection of that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of
persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular
social group or political opinion.”
 A person is an asylum seeker until a country calls them a refugee.
 When a person is displaced within his/her own country they are internally
displaced persons
 People after Hurricane Katrina were internally displaced.
DIFFERENT REFUGEE’S
 There are a number of different crises that have caused large numbers
of refugees. Following World War II is when the U.N. established the
status of refugee
 Your Fouberg textbook talks about Sub-Sahara Africa as an area with a
large amount of violence, like Sudan, that has forced individuals to
move.
 Food insecurity, such as famine causes refugees, or people to move.
Famine often leads to violence  even if the food part doesn’t meet
the “technical definition.”
 A number of Palestinians are considered refugees and live in Egypt,
but are not Egyptians.
SYRIA
 Syria is presently all over the
news because of the refugee
crisis occurring there; migrants
are heading to Turkey and
Europe.
 Keep in mind that refugees
often go to countries that are
neighboring, as the people
moving may have limited goods
or mobility.
 https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=RvOnXh3NN9w
READ ARTICLES
 You’ve been assigned an article; they’re all in the HUB, under Refugee Articles.
 Read the article for the next 15 minutes, take notes. You’re going to be responsible for explaining those
articles by the end of class.
 Pay attention to the following:
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Who?
Where?
Why?
Concerns?
 When you’re done reading, read another article, but pay most attention to your own. I’ll tell you when
to get into groups and you’re going to explain the who, where, why, and concerns that you learned
from your article. After that, discuss whether or not you’d be willing to accept refugees, aware of what
the challenges are with the populations and the difficulties that those individuals face.