Refugees

The guide is the summary of the author's work in Australia over 6 months consulting more than 30 Community Cultural Development workers, young people, youth workers, counsellors, teachers, academics and advocates in order to develop a framework for good practice when working with young people from a refugee background.

hands up! and be counted looks at some of the projects funded by the Community Cultural Development Board that have been produced by communities with migrant or refugee backgrounds. The 'how to apply' section is a simple outline of the steps involved in developing a proposal and applying for project funding.

Over 6 workshops, young people from a refugee background and living in Brisbane came together to talk, draw, paint and sing about their experiences of the past and their hopes for the future. The video is a snapshot of these reflections.

In December 2001, the UNHCR Library of the former Centre for Documentation and Research (CDR) was relocated to the Visitors’ Centre. This new entity participates in promoting the visibility and image of UNHCR to the public at large. The Library is very specialized: it focuses on information published about refugees and related subjects. It's collection consists of more than 15000 documents (books, articles, conference reports), encompassing the complete range of country, refugee, migration, human rights and international law literature. It also subscribes to some 200 refugee-related periodicals and to a number of international newspapers. In the last 15 years, the Library has built up a comprehensive collection of refugee-related material.

Teaching Tools aims to help students understand some of the complex processes that lead to violence and conflict which in turn cause refugees to flee from their homes and from their countries of origin; Cultivate attitudes that lead to a preference for constructive, active and non-violent resolution of conflict; Help students develop the personal and social skills necessary to live in harmony with others and to behave in positive and caring ways that respect basic human rights. The units and their lessons are arranged in subject categories (history, geography, civic education, language/literature, and art), and are designed for three age groups (9-11, 12-14 and 15-18). Each unit comes with a unit plan that shows the teacher at a glance the sequence of the lessons, their objectives, content, the teaching method/learning strategies involved, and the related resources which are available on this website, as well as further suggested readings for the teacher. Although the lessons are arranged in units, some lessons stand on their own, and thus could be taught without their partner lessons. The lesson plans are not prescriptive, but provide interested teachers starting points for lesson preparation. Teachers will need to integrate these ideas into their own programmes or schemes of work. Two of the resources packs in the series deal secifically with creative activities. ART : Refugees contribute to the culture of their host community. Some are well-known artists, painters, poets or novelists. Dante Alighieri created the major part of his work during his exile. Playwright Bertold Brecht, authors Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka, poets Pablo Neruda and Jorge Semprun, musician Miguel Angel Estrellas, painters Lucian Freud and Remedios Varo -- all suffered periods of exile which, in some cases, deeply colored their work. The theme of exile can be studied in literature, the history of music and art. LANGUAGE & LITERATURE : Refugees contribute to the culture of their host community. Some are well-known artists, painters, poets or novelists. Dante Alighieri created the major part of his work during his exile. Playwright Bertold Brecht, authors Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka, poets Pablo Neruda and Jorge Semprun, musician Miguel Angel Estrellas, painters Lucian Freud and Remedios Varo -- all suffered periods of exile which, in some cases, deeply colored their work. The theme of exile can be studied in literature, the history of music and art. Texts addressing refugee issues can also be used in language courses.

Searching fo the Sacred. The Research Project on Popular Religiosity and Adaptation Among Muslim, Catholic and Orthodox Refugees in Sweden. The importance of the religious dimension in the life of immigrants and refugees is being increasingly recognized. The active role of religion in social and cultural adjustment is one dimension being explored in this book. Another theme is the relationship between religion and politics. This book, as one of the first of its kind, investigates these and other issues in a comparison between religiously oriented refugees and immigrants from the Arab world, Chile and Orthodox Christians. This book is one of a series of reports form a project concerning popular religiosity among refugees and immigrants in Sweden. Orlando Mella is a Chilean sociologist who gained his doctorate from Uppsala University. He has done extensive academic work in Sweden and is now the Rector of Universidad Academica del Humanismo Cristiano in Santiago de Chile.

An educational CD-ROM which introduces the issues and connects specific experiences with a range of contexts.

We Are Here Because… is designed to help focus the current debate by providing first hand information on the issues. It is the first and only educational CD-ROM dealing with immigration and asylum - one of the most burning subjects today. Together with video and audio interviews with asylum seekers themselves, expert witnesses provide the context for why people need to flee from economic and political conditions caused by globalisation. Two further sections explain the basic concepts necessary to understand the issues, and how to set up campaigns to support asylum seekers. All this is rounded off with further reading sources, web links, a dynamic original soundtrack and plentiful images and photographs. This CD-ROM has been designed for GCSE level students and above. It can also be used to support the work of campaigning groups and asylum seekers' support groups, and in other informal and community settings. It is intended as an introduction to the issues. It will suit teachers at secondary level looking for material for citizenship classes, development educationalists, campaigning groups, and asylum seeker and refugee support groups who wish to affirm the struggles and experiences of asylum seekers and refugees everywhere.