Our readings about religion and immigration contain terms that may not be familiar to all students. Use this glossary to brush up on the definitions.
Our readings about religion and immigration contain terms that may not be familiar to all students. Use this glossary to brush up on the definitions.
Featuring the personal narratives of young migrants, this resource challenges students to reflect on the ways that migration affects personal identity.
This section focuses on France, where Islam—the religion of many North African immigrants and their French sons and daughters—has become the subject of many public discussions. In particular, we will examine the recent debate over headscarves in French state-run schools. This discussion, while involving particular dynamics and histories, echoes larger global conversations about religion, identity and integration and reveals varying understandings of what different social groups and societies need to do to integrate people of diverse ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds.
Very few of us can now claim to have just one national or ethnic identity. Increasingly, we share some parts of our identity with people who live elsewhere. Globalization has also changed our perception of who is like us and who is different. In this section we will explore how people’s sense of belonging and identity are changing.
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Use this six-week unit to explore the powerful story of a teenage boy from Honduras who migrates to the United States to reunite with his mother.
Students, though they often study immigration in school, rarely get the opportunity to share their own stories of immigration – or to do so on film.
So a Facing History and Ourselves teacher and a filmmaker set out to change that.