What is it like to be a immigrant in the UK? The Big Question You can describe different reasons why people migrate to the UK You can empathise with different groups of migrants in the UK You can consider the opinions of others and reflect upon your opinion of migration in the UK Learning Objective To explore the real stories of different types of immigrants in the UK

Hot Seating 6 actors have been chosen from the class. Actors will receive a character card based on a true story and will be in the ‘hot seat’ The rest of the class will work in small groups to ask each character questions to explore their real story Actors: You have 3 minutes to get into character and predict some of the questions you might be asked Actors: You have 3 minutes to get into character and predict some of the questions you might be asked Groups: You have 3 minutes to decide upon 3 questions to help you investigate each actors story Groups: You have 3 minutes to decide upon 3 questions to help you investigate each actors story Think: 5Ws

What is it like to be a immigrant in the UK? The Big Question You can describe different reasons why people migrate to the UK You can empathise with different groups of migrants in the UK You can consider the opinions of others and reflect upon your opinion of migration in the UK Learning Objective To explore the real stories of different types of immigrants in the UK

Mini-Plenary Choose one of the characters you visited and write down 3 adjectives which describe how you might feel when you first arrived in the UK - on mini-whiteboards Choose one of the characters you visited and write down 3 adjectives which describe how you might feel when you first arrived in the UK - on mini-whiteboards HINT An Adjective is a describing word e.g. scared HINT An Adjective is a describing word e.g. scared

What is it like to be a immigrant in the UK? The Big Question You can describe different reasons why people migrate to the UK You can empathise with different groups of migrants in the UK You can consider the opinions of others and reflect upon your opinion of migration in the UK Learning Objective To explore the real stories of different types of immigrants in the UK

Plenary: Empathy You must now choose one of the characters you visited and decide if you were in their situation whether you would migrate to the UK or not and WHY! If I was _________ I would or wouldn’t migrate to the UK because… Challenge: What do you think other people think of this type of migration and why?

Brains in Gear StatementsDescribe what you expect this type of person might be like if you met them Reflect Choose 3 questions as a group which you will ask each character to help you explore the real stories of immigration in the UK

Real Stories of Immigrants in the UK CharacterNotes from hot seating…Showing Empathy Lucy ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ Mandinka Patricia Jagdeesh Wali Puri

1. Economic Migrant My name is Lucy and I am from Zimbabwe in Africa. My mother died whilst giving birth to my younger brother so I was brought up by my sister and her husband. When I was 18, my sister decided to move to the UK because she wanted her children to get a better education and have better job opportunities. It was also at a time when the president of Zimbabwe (Robert Mugabe) was treating people very badly and the price of food was increasing rapidly. As soon as I arrived in England I got a job as a care worker and met my husband who is British. We have a baby girl called Tia who is nearly 3 and a son named Trey who is nearly 1. When I first got here I was very nervous and really missed my friends and family back home. Most people are friendly but there are times when I still hear racist and hurtful comments when I’m shopping which really upset me. I always wonder if those people would do the same thing for their children if they grew up in Zimbabwe.

2. Refugee I am called Mandinka and I am from Sierra Leone in Africa. I came to the UK in I escaped my country which had experienced a bloody civil war since I travelled to Morocco and then to Spain. When I arrived I was classed as an asylum seeker as I had to apply to live in the UK. During this time I was unable to work and lived in very poor quality housing in an unsafe area. After 2 years I was given permission to stay here as a refugee. I now live on a council estate in Harehills, Leeds and I work in an Ethiopian restaurant. If I go back to Sierra Leone I will most likely be killed.

3. Asylum Seeker Hi I’m Patrica. I was a paediatric nurse (children’s nurse) in Congo in Africa, working in the local hospital and in my mother’s chemist. My mother was killed by the government because she didn’t support them. I left the country because people were after me because my husband supported a different political group. When I reached the UK, the government didn’t believe me. It’s so frustrating, I filed all my papers, I am not allowed to work, not allowed to study and had very little money. Because I am unable to work I have to claim benefits from the government which is about £5 a day, I am ashamed that I have to do this but I have not other choice – I can’t even travel to another country as the immigration agency have my passport. I am living in and out of detention centres whilst I am waiting to see if I will be allowed to stay here, there have been cases where people are waiting 5 years for a decision.

4. Illegal Immigrant My name is Jagdeesh. I came to Great Britain illegally in look for a better life and to find paradise, but the reality turned out to be far removed from what I dreamed of. I end up in place that it's called little Punjab in London, homeless, living under the motorway and a hopeless migrant. I left my Country five years ago to come to Europe and my main goal was to reach England because of large Indian community in London also back home England seems like paradise. I paid $ (£600) to smugglers to bring me to London and it was a wrong investment. My parents had to sell their house and borrowed some money from family members for me to come to Britain to find better life and work to pay back their money. Now I know it's impossible for me to pay back that money that I owe my parents and some of family members. I can't even tell them that I wouldn't be able to pay back that money, I cut all contacts with them, I preferred for them to think that I'm dead in Paradise.

5. Economic Migrant Hello. My name is Puri and I am from Spain. I came to the UK in 1997 after I finished my degree in Granada. Initially I came to improve my English. At the time, there was little well-paid work in Spain and I found a job in London and met an Englishman. I am now married and have two children. It was simple to come to the UK because Spain is a member state of the European Union just like Great Britain. Generally people have been really welcoming to me, I love Britain now and feel partly British now after living here for 16 years.

6. Refugee My name is Wali and I am 10 years old. I was born in Afghanistan, in Kabul. Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan. We were not poor but we were not rich. My father worked at the civic centre and my mother was a housewife. When I was small I was quite happy. Life was not hard and people were always kind to me. I went to school and I was in Class Six. I liked my teacher, I always did my homework and I had many friends. After school we would go for a walk and play football together. Fighting started in Afghanistan. One night some men came to our house and took my father away and he was shot. After that, our life became very hard. I was woken up by a noise one morning at about four or five. My mother and my family went into the corridors where there were no windows and watched the rockets. They came four at a time. We stayed in the corridor for about an hour. Then it was a little bit quiet so we came inside and my mother started to cook. After this there were lots of soldiers walking about. Sometimes there were bad soldiers who went into houses and took things. All the schools were shut. I couldn’t go to see my friends because it wasn’t safe to go outside. The only time my mother went outside was to get food. After living like this for a week, my family decided we had to leave. We moved to London as refugees. I really miss Kabul and my friends but I am getting better at English and starting to make friends here.