1. Activity 5: Who are migrants? Slide 1: Aims >To understand the meaning of the terms refugee, asylum seeker and migrant worker. >To learn more about who migrants are. Positive Images Toolkit. Educator’s guide1

2. Activity 5: Who are migrants? Slide 2: Migrant terms Positive Images Toolkit. Educator’s guide2 TermDefinition RefugeeA person who has left their home country because they are afraid of being persecuted or badly treated because of their race, religion, nationality, because they belong to a particular social group, or because of their political opinion. As a result they cannot seek protection from their home country. Asylum seekerA person who has left their country and has applied for recognition as a refugee in another country, and is awaiting a decision on their application. Migrant workerA person who is in paid employment in a country where they are not a national.

3. Activity 5: Who are migrants? Slide 3: Migrant terms questions >Have you heard these terms before? >What do you know about these? >Where have you seen these terms used? Positive Images Toolkit. Educator’s guide3

4. Activity 5: Who are migrants? Slide 4: Creating a profile activity instructions >Create a profile of one of the people in the film. >Draw an outline of your chosen person on a large piece of paper. >Illustrate who the person is. On the inside of the profile, write or draw what the person might be feeling or thinking about their situation. On the outside write or draw about the situation the person faces in the outside world, in their home country and in their new country. For example think about the things that made the person leave their country and their current legal situation. Positive Images Toolkit. Educator’s guide4

5. Activity 5: Who are migrants? Slide 5: Words homebetter life civil warpersecutionthreats job securitypeople are acceptingpeople are starving students aren’t going to school no freedom lives in dangerrejected can’t express yourselfleaving everything behind asylum seekermigrant worker refugee nursehard workerfriendlyteachermother of threeneighbour every woman in the worlddaughterresilient passionate smile when nervous searching left to learn government decision studylegala statusa person Positive Images Toolkit. Educator’s guide5

6. Activity 5: Who are migrants? Slide 6: Review questions >How do we define a refugee, an asylum seeker and a migrant worker? >What do these terms mean? Why are they important? >Did you learn anything new about who migrants are? Share this with the group. Positive Images Toolkit. Educator’s guide6

7. Activity 5: Who are migrants? Slide 7: Poem questions >What does the author think about who he is? How does he feel he is seen by others? >How does he feel that being an asylum seeker affects his identity? >What thoughts and feelings does the author express? Have you ever felt that way? When did you feel this way? >How does this poem help you to understand what it might feel like to be a migrant? Positive Images Toolkit. Educator’s guide7