Full Description
Migrants provides an easy-to-understand explanation for children of what migration is, its causes and consequences.
Humanity was nomadic for 99% of its existence. Sedentary life, national borders and the creation of identity documents for increasingly stricter population control are comparatively recent phenomena, and paradoxical given that the world is becoming ever more globalized. The recent emergence of populist movements in the West that are focused on closing borders and rejecting others raises serious questions about our sense of fraternity, especially when we could be facing ever larger migration movements due to the climate crisis.
This book concisely explains what migration is, its causes and consequences, and the humanistic and legal aspects regarding it in the simplest, most objective ways possible, so that children have all the information they need to understand the world around them.
Introduces children aged 8 and up to complex global social issues in a sensitive and balanced way
Characterful illustrations appropriate for the readership and subject matter
Easy-to-follow, bite-size text
Includes a case study on the migration into Europe
For ages 8+
Contents
Humanity has always moved 5
What are borders? 6
Why are the borders where they are? 7
Passports and visas 8
How do you get the documentation required to enter a country? 9
Who does NOT have trouble crossing a frontier? 10
Who DOES have trouble crossing a frontier? 11
European colonizations 12
Who can migrate? 14
Where to go? 15
Main migratory routes 16
Why do people migrate? 18
Escaping war 21
Refugees 22
Mobs 24
Summarizing . . . 26
People who don't like that immigrants coming to their country 28
Dossier: The migratory crisis in the Mediterranean 31
Dossier: Migrant caravans to the United States 37
