Classroom Resource: Desperate Journeys with Khaled Hosseini

September 20, 2018/0 Comments/in African Immigrant Origin, Audio/VIdeo, Current Events, Middle Eastern Origin, Resource Type, Social Studies /by Adam Strom

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 and environmental push and pull forces and more intimate personal contexts motivate people‘s decisions to leave their homes?
What happens to those who stay and how do they relate to those who leave?

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