Month: April 2016

Asylum Seekers teamwork

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9 groups of 4 students 

  • What’s the difference between an Asylum Seeker and a Refugee?
  • Each group will be working on 4 texts dealing with refugee cases. 
  • Highlight details that urge you to grant / NOT to grant the refugee status to the refugee.
  • Each student chooses a number.
  • Reset the teams with the new numbers. 
  • Explain why would you grant the refugee status or wouldn’t. 

IF YOU LOST YOUR DOCUMENTS! Asylum seekers

AGREE / DISAGREE / IN TWO MINDS ?

Team 1 refugee Case N° Fauziya KASINGA

Team 2 refugee Case N° Kalareh Nima

Team 3 refugee Case Igor Fedorenko

Refugee Agency

Final Reports Teamwork

  • We agree to grant the refugee status to K N because he was part of the Tudeh Party and the members of his family who were in this party too were persecuted. He was also ‘treated very badly’ so that’s why we think he would be a victim of persecution and his fear is well-founded. What’s more he is homosexual and in Iran it’s not accepted / not allowed. Homosexuals are executed in Iran.
  • We don’t grant the refugee status to MAS even if she was in danger she had provided material support to fight against her government so she is a political agitator and could be responsible for a civil war or an armed conflict in her own country.
  • We disagree with the fact that Fauziya is a refugee because there is a lot of women in this country who are in the same position as FGM is a custom / a tradition. Also it’s not a life-or-death situation. That’s why we can’t accept her as a political refugee because there would be too many women in this case. Instead, we can offer a new status the Politically Protected People status which protects people who fear for their body, it allows minors to have a right over their own body. There would be organizations who would welcome these victims and protect them from physical abuse in their country or in a neighbouring country.
  • Our choice was difficult, we were in two minds because this person committed a crime against humanity and lied about it. So even if he was forced to work in a Nazi camp, he chose to flee to avoid a fair trial at the end of World War II.

 

Interview questions for Role Play

Identity:

  • What’s your name?

  • Where are you from?

  • How old are you?

  • Where were you born?

  • What is your ethnicity?

  • Did you participate / were you involved in persecution of a group of people in a armed conflict?

Motivation:

  • Why do you apply for asylum?

  • What is your religion? political opinion?

Situation / Context:

  • What happens to young women in your country? What’s happening to your country?

  • Are you forced to do anything against your will? What are you forced to do?

  • How do you feel? Are you scared? What are you afraid of?

  • Do you think that you’re in danger of death?

  • Does your home country allow homosexuality?

 

UNHCR video study

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Students work on a definition of a refugee, compare it to the 1951 convention and then work on creating a protocol to prepare for a roleplay where they are refugees and members of UNHCR.

Push and pull factors

WHAT IS A REFUGEE?

  • A REFUGEE is someone who didn’t / doesn’t have the choice to leave /
  • whose life is in danger / victim of imminent danger –
  • he fears for his life
  • victims or potential victims of genocide, wars, persecution, insecurity

Poverty / economic problems ? Want a job / make more money

– > economic migrants not considered as refugees.

Victims of natural disasters may be relocated to another city in the same country.

– > considered as internally displaced people.

Their reasons have to be honest? > well-founded

Protocol / questions / proof people tell the truth ?

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Twisted Fairy Tales

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Grp B

  • Happy ending?
  • Twist? change
  • for kids ?
  • Once upon a time … / They lived happily ever after …
  • crows / dark magic / evil queen / fights / armour / knights / to turn into ( se transformer) / powerful / powerless / no blood / breathes her youth in / her escape (sa fuite)

Comment on Snowwhite and the Huntsman.

Find 1 common point / 1 difference between the original story and this new version. 

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