The Nowhere Land

Guided Text: “The Nowhere Land Where Children
On The Move Are Someone Else's Problem” by Sarah Crowe -
U.N.I.C.E.F

We will have met the success criteria when we

• Can work out the meaning of new vocabulary.

• Locate information within a text.

• Make connections between ideas

• Synthesize and summarize key ideas

• Make links between our own lives and the lives of others

Pre-read discussion

What is a Peugeot 404?

What is the difference between a migrant, a refugee and an asylum seeker?

A refugee is someone who has fled their country in search for a safer
place to live. They are usually people who have left due to war and fighting
or because of unfair rights. Lots of refugees are children without parents
who travel alone until they get sent to refugee camps “concentration camps”.
Or get picked up by human traffickers or people smugglers who ship them off
to different countries in big shipping containers. Lots of refugees die while in
the containers due to lack of oxygen, lack of food and dehydration.

An Asylum Seeker is a Refugee who has travelled over a course
of time to an large defined area where the government has sent the
Army Or the United Nation Troops to set up a camp and a medium sized Safety
Asylum. The Refugees are rather put into the 1st class safe Asylum or are
in the Refugee camp.

A migrant is someone who chooses to move to a different
country not because they want to for a whole lot of different.
Reasons maybe like economical reasons, maybe they are low on water and food.

Where is Niger? Niger is located in West Africa, bordering

Chad, Nigeria and Libya.Where is the
Sahara? How big is the Sahara compared to New Zealand?
The Sahara is roughly thirty times bigger than new zealand.

Define:

Wasteland -

ghetto,

milling about,

Turmeric-coloured,

elusive Eldorado,

throngs,

smuggler,

daunting,

clampdown,

frontier,

bearing the brunt,

from pillar to post,

Guinean,

gesticulating tirade,

impoverished,

ironically,

threadbare,

a motley bag,

dynamics,

transiting through,

traumatized,

undetected,

gangly,

flip flops,

lucrative,

GPS,

glitch,

philosophers,

grim,

Read the text to yourself and make notes/highlight/bullet point as
you read. You are looking for the main idea in this article. Be ready
to discuss your notes.

I think the author has written this text to raise awareness towards
children refugees from over the world with no home. These children
have been returned to niger. A place where most of them aren't from
and now they have to travel across the saharan desert. The author in
\this text is biased when she says “nothing could be further from the
gates of paradise than this scorching unearthly wasteland and “stranded
with dashed hopes and un for filed dreams.” “onto a bone drie open plane
with a few thread bare tents”. These are all signs of byasim towards the
refugees. The author is making it sound a lot worse than it possibly could
be. She is making it sound like they are living in unbearable conditions
and would do anything for a chance of freedom including walking across
the saharan desert with no food or water and nothing to protect their feet
from the scorching hot deadly sea of sand. Of course this is all quite
possibly true but you would have to be there to know. The author is
making it sound very bad (Which it is) To make the reader sympathies
the refugees. The key points in this text are: Nothing could be further
from the gates of paradise than this scorching, unearthly wasteland
stretching out as far as the eye can see and beyond.

Arrivals into Italy from January to early June this year were down
by two thirds compared to the same period last year when 60,000
crossed over from North Africa.

Since November last year, more than 8000 West Africans,
including 2000 children, have been returned to Niger from
Algeria, with another 900 refugees and asylum seekers from
East Africa transferred from Libya awaiting cumbersome and
slow resettlement processes.According to Unicef estimates some
120 children drowned at sea between January and May. At leas
t there are coastguards at sea. No one patrols the vast and deadly
sea of sand.