Notes

48 pages
illustrations (chiefly colour), map, portraits.
Contents include: Who are refugees and migrants? -- What makes people leave their homes? -- How do refugees and migrants travel? What happens when they arrive? -- Migrations through history -- What rights do refugees and migrants have? -- Does it matter how we use words? -- What is culture and how do we share it? -- What happens when we deliberately separate cultures and peoples? -- What would you do? -- What do you think?
Summary: This book explores the history of refugees and migration around the world and the effects on people of never-ending war and conflict. It compares the effects on society of diversity and interculturalism with historical attempts to create a racially 'pure' culture. It takes an international perspective, and offers a range of views from people who have personal experience of migration, including the campaigners Meltem Avcil and Muzoon Almellehan, the comedian and actor Omid Djalili and the poet Benjamin Zephaniah. There is a role-play activity asking readers to imagine themselves in the situation of having to decide whether to leave their homes and seek refuge in a new country.