Entries by Adam Strom
Educator Spotlight: Telling Stories with Sheetal Sheth
Sheetal Sheth is an actress, activist, and now an author. The daughter of immigrants from India, Sheth has been a trailblazer, helping to lead the way for increased representation of South Asians on screen and in media. Beside her work on screen, Sheth has a long record of involvement in educational efforts, including participation in […]
What Kind of Asian are You?
Ken Tanaka is a Los Angeles based artist who often makes art about issues related to identity. In 2013, his short film “What Kind of Asian are You?” went viral. It received five million hits in one month. While the film was released as part of a youtube comedy special, it has lived on […]
The Bintel Brief: Letters from Jewish Life on New York’s Lower East Side
On January 20, 1906, a new kind of newspaper column made its first appearance in the Forward, a Yiddish language newspaper published on New York’s Lower East Side. The column, known as the Bintel Brief, created an exchange between the reader and the press. In today’s world of social media, we call that user […]
The Context and Our Mission
The Context One-quarter of all children under the ages of eighteen across developing nations have an immigrant parent. Finding ways to facilitate their flourishing and successful social inclusion is both a demographic and a democratic imperative. Despite the rapid growth in the number of children and youth from immigrant families and the challenging circumstances they face, many adults […]
Desperate Journeys with Khaled Hosseini: Lesson Plan
In this 23 minute film, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Khaled Hosseini speaks with refugees and their families to explore this question: Why do refugees leave their homes? While you watch this short film, here are some more questions you can explore, via our Learning Arc: What was life like before migration? In what ways do societal […]
Classroom Resource: Refugees, Media, and Migration
“There [is] a consensus that migration reporting is one of the biggest challenges facing the news media and will be for years to come. It is essential that media rise to the challenge of covering migration and put ethics at the centre of their coverage.” Tom Law, Ethical Journalism Network How do words and images, […]
Countering Prejudice: A Photo Essay about Migrants in Italy
How do we develop ideas about migrants? In the 1950’s, Gordon Allport outlined his contact hypothesis. He believed that under certain conditions, interactions with people who are different than us would help to break down prejudice. Unfortunately, those conditions are rarely met. Recently, scholars have noted that lack of positive personal interactions with newcomers is […]