1. Ap Geography Day 16

2. Starter
What is a refugee?
Give 3 reasons why refugees migrate

3. Internally Displaced Persons Refugees Asylum Seekers
Voluntary Migration
Forced Migration
May be:
Transnational
Internal
Chain
Step
Rural-to-Urban
Internally Displaced Persons
Refugees
Asylum Seekers

4. Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Internally Displaced Persons, oh my!

5. Can no longer live in their home due to reasonable fear that they will be persecuted and/or face death
Internally displaced persons: people forced to move to other parts of a country (not emigration)
Refugees: seeking safety and status while outside of the country that they want to emigrate
Asylum seekers: seeking safety and status while in the country they want to remain in, or at its port of entry

6. Nicaragua
Brazil
India
Israel/Palestine
Case Studies

7. Group Discussions Meet as a group and discuss the situation
What was going on?
What are the push/pull factors?
Are there any reasons to stay?
Do you feel that this was voluntary or forced migration?
Do you think they could be considered refugees or asylum seekers? (Were they ‘fleeing’?)

8. Group Discussions Pt 2
Meet in your councils and one-by-one each explain:
What country or countries are involved?
What is the situation?
What are the push/pull factors?
Are there any reasons to stay?
Is this a case of refugees or asylum seekers? Is there anything that can be done to help them?

9. Europe or Die