Education
These education resources activate the counter-archive by providing additional ways to engage with the oral histories.
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.
Rethinking Borders
2h • secondary/post-secondary
Encourages reflection on conceptions of and assumptions about borders and their geographies.
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.
Categorization and Migration
90 minutes • secondary/post-secondary
Reflects on the terms used in immigration debates and considers their broader implications.
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.
Push & Pull Factors
50 minutes • secondary/post-secondary
Introduces the concept of push and pull factors and critically evaluates the usefulness of the concept.