Resource Library
Welcome to Re-Imagining Migration's comprehensive resource collection, featuring over 500 carefully curated materials designed to transform how schools and educators approach migration, inclusion, and belonging. Whether you're developing curriculum, creating inclusive learning environments, leading professional development, or working to support immigrant-origin students, our library offers resources and guidance for every aspect of building migration-responsive educational communities.
Types of Resources
Lessons
Lesson plans, student activities, and discussion guides ready for immediate use
Planning
Tools
Frameworks and guides to help you integrate migration themes into your existing curriculum
Articles/
Research
Hand-picked articles and high-quality research to bring topics to life.
Study
Guides &
Collections
Curated sets of resources organized around specific themes or learning objectives
Teaching
Techniques
Practical strategies for creating inclusive, engaging learning environments
Video
Resources
Online videos and streaming content to depict migration stories.
Results
Dispositions for World on the Move
he Re-imagining Migration framework identifies five core dispositions that we deem essential to navigate a world on increasing mobility, diversity, and complexity. One way to think about the…
“I Am Not Your Cholo:” Telling Migration Stories in Persuasive Essays
In this Re-Imagining Migration and Words Without Borders webinar. viewers will explore the transformative power of storytelling while highlighting underrepresented narratives. The session began with an…
Bridging Culture Through Texas BBQ
What can Texas BBQ tell us about integration? This segment from CBS Sunday Morning explains that the Lone Star State’s distinctive barbecue is getting some impressive…
Moments in Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander History
This video is part of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation’s Asian and Pacific Island Animated Histories Project. This animated video highlights a few of the…
Film “The Indian Problem” from the National Museum of the American Indian
From the National Museum of the American Indian As American power and population grew in the 19th century, the United States gradually rejected the main principle…
The Power of Refugees
Basma Alawee is a refugee. She and her husband fled Iraq after the Iraq war and settled in the United States. Since arriving in the U.S.,…
Rejecting Assimilation
The words assimilation, integration, and acculturation are often used interchangeably but they mean different things. Assimilation suggests giving up your culture to fit in with the people around…
Talking and Teaching about the Refugee Crisis in Ukraine and Beyond
Note: Talking and Taking about the Refugee Crisis in Ukraine and Beyond was updated on April 3, 2022 and is designed to help students make sense of the…
1917 Silent March Against Lynching
In July of 1917, the NAACP organized a silent march against lynching in New York City. Author James Weldon Johnson is credited with the idea for…
Ma Rainey and The Great Migration
August Wilson’s play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is set in 1927 and focuses on the experiences of Ma Rainey, a Southern Black singer who has moved North during…