Why do people leave their homes?
Helpful Links:
- Arab American Immigration: A Timeline
- Hidden Histories: Arab Americans
- Climate Migrate Case Study
- Ida B. Wells: Lynching is Our National Crime
- The Power of Refugees
- Understanding Migration: A Gallery Walk
- The Great Migration: Journey That Reshaped America
- W.E.B. DuBois “Migration of Negros,” 1917
- PBS Asian Americans Film and Lessons
- Can Moving Make You Free?: Thornton and Lucie Blackburn
- Change Makers-Luma Mufleh
- Home by Warshan Shire
- Handout: Seven Migrations and American Identity
- Andrew Jackson “On Indian Removal”, 1830
- Film: “Indian Removal”
- Military Order for the Forced Removal of Native People’s, 1838
- Native Viewpoints on 19th Century Westward Expansion
- Same and Different: The Great Migration in Perspective
- Art, Freedom, and Justice: Bryan Stevenson on the Great Migration
- A False Choice for the Cherokee Nation
- Olaudah Equiano: My People
- Leaving China: Lee Chew
- Mexicans are Migrating, Just Not Across the US Border
- Lee and Low Book of the Month: All the Stars Denied
- Primary Source: The Emigrant’s Farewell
- Primary Source: Language and the Promised Land
- Irish Emigrants: Why did they leave their homes?
- Video: Ireland’s Great Hunger and the Irish Diaspora
- Classroom Resource: Birth Water
- Classroom Resource: Climate Change and the Migrant Caravan
- Resource Collection: World Refugee Day & Beyond
- Classroom Resource: Climate change is the overlooked driver of Central American migration
- PBS Latino Americans: Foreigners in their Own Land
- The Great Migration and the Power of a Single Decision
- Hannah Curtis, writing from Queen’s County, Ireland to her brother John Curtis in Philadelphia. 1848.
- Teaching Idea: Letters from Irish Immigrants After the Famine
- Historical Context: Irish Immigrants in the 19th Century
- Thousands are Sailing: Irish Immigrants’ Letters from the 19th Century
- Selections of Irish Immigrants’ Letters
- Blog: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Turns 70
- Mary Garvey, writing from Hightstown, New Jersey to her mother in Ireland, October 24, 1850.
- Peter Connolly, writing from Fort Smith, Arkansas to his father Thomas Connolly in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan. May 11th, 1848.
- What is it like to be part of a migrant caravan?
- Birds of Passage: The Italian Americans
- Desperate Journeys with Khaled Hosseini: Lesson Plan
- Classroom Resource: The Bracero Program and Guest Workers
- Polly Potter and Resistance to the Trail of Tears
- Pogroms and Russian Jewish Immigrants
- Migration, Immigration, and Climate Change
- Classroom Resource: The New Europeans from National Geographic
- Classroom Resource – In-Motion: The African American Migration Experience
- 1906: Sending Money Home
- Chinese Immigrants to the US: Past and Present