Refugees links and resources

Books Websites Focus articles Books Teacher reference Title: Refugees: We left because we had to: a citizenship teaching resource for 11-18 year-olds Author: Jill Rutter Description: Comprehensive and authoritative, the third edition of this resource has been rewritten. The book contains lesson ideas and activities that have been tried and tested in the classroom, and each chapter contains photographs, drawings, maps and games to bring the subject alive for students. Age group: Secondary ISBN: 094678759X Publisher: London: Refugee Council, 2004 Where to get it: http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/practice/eshop/leftbecausewehadto.htm Title : I am here: Teaching about refugees, identity, inclusion and the media. A citizenship resource pack for 11-14 year-olds Description : This booklet and video aim to give teachers the material and the confidence to teach about refugees confidently. I am here contains six one-hour lessons which use drama, case studies and testimony from refugees to help young people link their own sense of belonging with the acceptance and inclusion of people from diverse backgrounds. Publisher : London : Save the Children, 2004 ISBN : 1841870870 Age group : Upper primary / Lower secondary Where to get it : http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/54_2332.htm Title: Dark Dreams: Australian refugee stories by young writers aged 11-20 years Edited by: Sonja Dechian, Heather Millar and Eva Sallis Description: This is an anthology of essays, interviews, and stories written by children and young adults as part of a nationwide schools competition in 2002. The essays and stories represent many different countries and themes. Some focus on survival, some on horrors, some on the experiences and alienation of a new world. Age group: Secondary ISBN: 1862546290 Publisher: Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2004 http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/books/darkdreams.html Title: Why Are People Refugees? Author: Cath Senker Description: This book explains the differences between being a refugee, an internally displaced person and an economic migrant. Readers can find out about the experience of being forced from one's home, and understand how many people in the world have to endure this experience. Together with case studies and quotes from people with different experiences of being refugees, this book provides all the facts readers need to form their own opinions about the subject. 48pp, Age group: Upper primary / Lower secondary ISBN: 0750243260 Publisher: London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2004 Fiction Title : Kiss the dust Author : Elizabeth Laird Description : Thirteen year old Tara is a Kurdish school girl whose family is forced to flee from Iraq during the 1980s. The story of the family's escape and life in the mountains before they are forced to ask for political asylum in the UK provides a powerful insight into the experience of being a refugee. Publisher : London : Egmont, 2001 ISBN : 0749749326 Age group : Secondary Title: Little Brother Author: Alan Baillie Description: The story of a young boy separated from his only surviving relative, an older brother, during their attempt to escape from the reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. It provides a general insight into the experiences of refugees, regardless of the country or regime from which they are escaping. A good lead into empathy exercises - how would you feel, what would you do to find your brother. ISBN: 0140341994 Publisher: Puffin Age group: Upper primary Title : My dog Authors : John Heffernan and Andrew McLean Description : The story of a boy leaving his home in Kosovo. ISBN : 1876289120 Publisher : Hunters Hill: Scholastic Australia, 2001 Age group : Primary Title : Parvana Author : Deborah Ellis Description : An Afghan girl has to disguise herself as a boy without her burqua in order to enter the streets and feed her family. Publisher : Crows Nest, N.S.W: Allen and Unwin, 2002 ISBN : 1865086940 Age group : Upper primary / lower secondary Title : Soraya the storyteller Author : Rosanne Hawke Description : Soraya is an 11-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan living under the shadow of a temporary protection visa. As she adapts to life in Australia she is haunted by both her father's absence and the fear that she may have to return to Afghanistan . To console herself, she begins writing stories. Part of the Takeaways series. 175 pages. Publisher : South Melbourne : Lothian, 2004 ISBN : 0734407092 Age group : Upper primary Teacher's notes : http://www.rosannehawke.com/documents/soraya_notes.doc Title : Walk in my shoes Author : Evans, Alwyn Description : An Afghani refugee, Gulnessa, struggles to establish a life for herself and her family in Australia . They are confined in a detention centre for asylum seekers, and forced to prove their refugee status. 348 p. Publisher : Camberwell: Penguin, 2004 ISBN : 0143002317 Age group : Secondary Teacher's notes : http://www.penguin.com.au/PUFFIN/NOTES/pdf/0143002317.pdf Websites

Amnesty International Australia URL:  http://www.amnesty.org.au/ An independent, politically impartial worldwide movement, Amnesty International works to both promote and to protect human rights around the world. This web site provides an online library, newsletters, and contact information for Amnesty International Australia offices in each of the states. Anatomy of a Refugee Camp URL:  http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/refugeecamp/ Explore a typical refugee camp and examine its many parts. Every camp is different since every situation is different. In most cases proper design of a camp isn't possible because refugees have already settled on a site. In this case aid agencies look at how to improve the camp or decide if the population should be moved somewhere else. Flash required to access this Canadian Broadcasting Corporation site. Text version available from menu. Face the facts: Some questions and answers about Indigenous peoples, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers URL:  http://www.humanrights.gov.au/racial_discrimination/face_facts/ This 2008 updated version of the 1997 fact sheet produced by Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) at the height of the debate on the so-called 'race issue'. It compiles simple, current information on Indigenous peoples, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in an attempt to counter the myths and misinformation that surround these issues. Let's talk about rights: Toolkit and information sheets URL:  http://www.humanrights.gov.au/letstalkaboutrights/info.html Information sheets on human rights issues are provided in relation to the following groups/topics: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; asylum seekers and refugees; children and young people; counter terrorism laws; faith-based communities; gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex people; housing and homelessness; people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds; people with a disability; older people; women. Refugee Council of Australia URL:  http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/ Information on refugees and humanitarian entrants, Australia's refugee resettlement and asylum programs, asylum seekers, general refugee statistics, the Australian Government's policy of detaining some asylum seekers and how you can help to promote the human rights of displaced people. Topics include Who is a refugee, Facts about refugees, Statistical overview, Refugee programs in Australia, Australian Refugee Foundation, Detention: an alternative model. For lower and upper secondary. Visit a Refugee Camp URL:  http://www.refugeecamp.org/movie.cfm 14 million refugees and up to 25 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) live in temporary shelters throughout the world. Medecins Sans Frontieres USA takes us on on virtual tour of a refugee camp to learn about the basic of shelter, food, water, sanitation, and health care and hear personal stories of refugees and relief workers. This companion site to a touring exhibition called 'A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City' also features curriculum resources on refugee issues and famine aimed at middle and high school students. The entire curriculum can be downloaded in PDF format. World Disasters Report URL:  http://www.ifrc.org/en/publications-and-reports/world-disasters-report/ The annual World Disasters Report published by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies focuses on a key issue about the response to disasters. It provides in-depth analysis, statistics and recommendations. In 2007 the focus was on discrimination, 2006 the neglected crises, 2005 information in disasters, 2004 community resilience and 2003 the ethics of aid.

Focus articles Focus, a quarterly magazine published by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), provides a variety of items about how the Australian Government's overseas aid program addresses specific global issues. You can subscribe to Focus online or order printed copies at: http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pubs.cfm?Type=PubFocus

Kosovo Refugees Who Don't Want to Go Home URL:  http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/focus/focuspdfs/1299/Focus36_38_1299.pdf Article from December 1999 issue of AusAID's Focus magazine warning of the threat of the approaching European winter for thousands of refugees in Macedonia who were victims of the war in the former Yugoslavia and who fled Kosovo and other parts of Southern Serbia. While the great majority of the refugees had moved back across the border into Kosovo, there were still around 4,500 refugees sheltering in two Macedonian camps operated by CARE Australia. Many of these refugees were refusing or delaying the return home, claiming they had no future in Kosovo or Southern Serbia. Mending Fences: Restoring Lives in Sri Lanka URL:  http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/focus/focuspdfs/autumn03/focus_autumn_03_17.pdf A photographic essay from the Autumn 2003 issue of Focus illustrating the cautious optimism that nearly 20 years of civil conflict in Sri Lanka is coming to an end, and counting the high human and economic cost of war is high where more than 65,000 people have been killed, over 800,000 have been displaced and many thousands have lost their means of earning a living. Through income generation schemes, education and health programs and landmine awareness and clearance activities, Australia is supporting many of the communities affected by conflict. Out of a Wasteland URL:  http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/focus/focuspdfs/may04/focus_may04_26.pdf An article from the May 2004 issue of AusAID's Focus magazine describing Samata Sarana in Colombo where women displaced or traumatised by conflict have opportunities to learn new skills and help re-build their communities.