1. HUMAN MIGRATION PUSH & PULL FACTORS
Why do your parents choose to live here?
What motivated your parents / grandparents / great grandparents to move (here or anywhere)?

2. Brainstorm: why do people move?
PUSH FACTORS
PULL FACTORS

3. What’s going on in this picture?

4. Atlas- page 34-35 What is a refugee?
List the many challenges refugees face.
What is the UNHCR?
What 3 solutions does the UNHCR implement to help settle refugees?
Look at the chart ‘Refugees by Origin’ in Do some brainstorming, what might be happening in these regions in 2007?
Look at the map. What areas of the world take in refugees (asylum seekers)?

5. Have you seen this picture before?
(16:34) ‘Alan Kurdi : The Boy on the Beach - the fifth estate’

6. The current situation in Syria

9. Website Activity: ‘PeopleMovin’
Go to this link: Answer the questions on the google doc, do a write up and submit it on google classroom.

10. Case Study: Migration between Mexico & the United States
Why?
Where?
Case Study: Migration between Mexico & the United States
What?
Who?
When?

11. Enrique Aquilar Canchola , 42
Who?
Enrique Aquilar Canchola , 42
What?
Disguised as a bus seat
Mexico to the U.S. California at the San Ysidro crossing, which can be seen in the background.
Where?
When?
July 2006
Why?
To try (unsuccessfully) to sneak across the border...

12. Case Study- Mexico - USA border
Aims:
-Give reasons for why people migrate from Mexico to the USA.
-Describe the advantages and disadvantages for Mexico and the USA.
-Consider the different perceptions surrounding the issue of migration.
Keywords
International Migration, Push, Pull, Mexico, USA.
(0:35) ‘Mexican Bailout’

13. USA
Mexico

14. Why might people want to migrate from Mexico to the USA?

15. Video: Walls of Shame- US/ Mexico
(11:30) ‘Walls of Shame - US/Mexico - 05 Nov 07 - Ep 1 - Part 1’ (12:07) ‘Walls of Shame - Mexico/US - 05 Nov 07 - Ep 1 - Part 2’

16. Let’s go to the computer lab & do some research
Google classroom
Complete ‘Mexico USA Migration’