Education

These education resources activate the counter-archive by providing additional ways to engage with the oral histories.

  • Lesson icon - Mapping as Storytelling

    Mapping as Storytelling

    60 minutes • secondary/post-secondary

    Encourages critical reflection on maps and mapping as a way to understand migration journeys and how they are represented.

  • Lesson icon - Rethinking Borders

    Rethinking Borders

    2h • secondary/post-secondary

    Encourages reflection on conceptions of and assumptions about borders and their geographies.

  • Lesson icon - Criminalization of Aid

    Criminalization of Aid

    90 mins • secondary/post-secondary

    Considers how offering assistance at the border is interpreted and reflects on why migrant advocates have been criminalized.

  • Lesson icon - Categorization and Migration

    Categorization and Migration

    90 minutes • secondary/post-secondary

    Reflects on the terms used in immigration debates and considers their broader implications.

  • Lesson icon - Human Smuggling & Trafficking

    Human Smuggling & Trafficking

    50 mins • secondary/post-secondary

    Introduces the legal constructs of human smuggling and trafficking and how these play out in peoples’ migration stories.

  • Lesson icon - Push & Pull Factors

    Push & Pull Factors

    50 minutes • secondary/post-secondary

    Introduces the concept of push and pull factors and critically evaluates the usefulness of the concept.