Refugee work

Guided Text: “The Nowhere Land Where Children On The Move Are Someone Esle’s Problem” by Sarah Crowe - UNICEF

Pre-read discussion

What is a Peugeot 404?

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

Where is Niger?  Where is the Sahara? How big is the Sahara compared to 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.