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Issues of identity and belonging are inseparable from the experience of immigration. Stories of immigrants, past and present, illuminate the human lives behind the ever-shifting global landscape we inhabit today.

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Debating the Ban of the Veil in Public Schools

Explore the debate over banning headscarves in French schools and consider the tension between personal and group identities.

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Demographic Trends Shaping the US and the World in 2018

Get an overview of the Pew Research Center's findings on global migration and immigration as of 2018.

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Ellis Island

Immigrants of every background recall their extraordinary adventures, from the treacherous passage across the sea to the start of a new life in a new land.

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Enrique's Journey

A Honduran boy goes on an unforgettable quest looking for his mother, eleven years after she is forced to leave her starving family to find work in the United States.

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Exploring Civil Rights and Migration: 18-week Curriculum Outline

This outline provides an instructional pathway for educators to teach 18-week curriculum exploring questions of identity, membership and belonging, and the power of their individual and collective choices. Recommended for 7th and 8th-grade educators.

It is based on the following resources: 1) Unit: Choices in Little Rock, 2) Memoir: Warriors Don’t Cry, 3) Unit: My Part of the Story, and 4) Nonfiction Book: Enrique’s Journey.

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Farmingville

In Farmingville, New York, tensions rise in the community after an influx of Mexican immigrants move there for work, which ultimately results in vicious hate crimes.

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Five Facts about Honduras and Immigration

Explore key findings about Honduran immigration, including the recent wave of minors seeking asylum.

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Forgotten Ellis Island

The Ellis Island hospital was at once welcoming and foreboding: immigrants nursed to health were allowed entry to America, but those deemed feeble of body or mind were deported.

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France Bans the Veil in Public Schools

Investigate the law banning headscarves in French schools and explore how people reacted to the legislation.

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Hope Frye's Testimony on Child Migrant Detention

Immigration lawyer Hope Frye describes the conditions at child migrant detention centers in her congressional hearing testimony.

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I Learn America

Over the course of one school year, five immigrant teenagers are followed. They share their stories and struggles from their lives before and after moving to the US.

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I Learn America Viewers' Guide

This guide to the documentary film I Learn America prompts educators, students, and school communities to reflect on the role of schools in welcoming newcomers to the United States.

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