With the release of Donald Trump’s new travel ban, a brief look at a Yale group that fought the original ban.
Population and Migration
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Lesson Plan: Human Geography – The Population Bomb
Students will learn why concerns about population growth first emerged in the 1970s, why predictions about population were wrong, and what that means for today.
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Lesson Plan: Forever Prison
Students will learn how Guantanamo Bay was first used to detain thousands of Haitians outside the reach of U.S. law and explore the possible reasons one might emigrate to another country.
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Lesson Plan: The Uproar Over Sanctuary Cities Began Long Ago
Students will learn about sanctuary cities and engage in a deliberation over whether local governments have the right to limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
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Lesson Plan: For Private Prisons, Detaining Immigrants Is Big Business
An inmate population surge in the 1980s led to the rise of for-profit prisons. This Retro Report short doc examines how private companies have expanded into immigrant detention, raising concerns about whether profit motives contribute to poor conditions and lack of oversight. The film offers a real-world example of how market failures, externalities and government contracts can shape outcomes in systems meant to serve the public interest.
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Lesson Plan: Future of Aging — Mini Lesson
Students will learn about the impact on financial systems and other supporting infrastructure of the increase of people 65 and older.
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Lesson Plan: Immigration in the 1990s – Proposition 187
Students will learn about the anti-immigration movement in California in the 1990s, and why it is relevant today.
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Lesson Plan: Refugees and the Power of Words – Using Their Stories to Create Found Poems
This video asks what obligation countries have to refugees. It’s a question as important today as it was in 1975, when the United States evacuated 130,000 South Vietnamese allies during the fall of Saigon and brought them to this country to start new lives. But some Vietnamese refugees, like Carolee Tran, faced significant hardship and racism, despite the fact that then-President Ford said the U.S. had a “profound moral obligation” to families like hers. Today, as Afghan and Ukrainian migrants settle in the United States, this video asks whether refugee resettlement is better now than it was for the Vietnamese 50 years ago. As Kenneth Quinn, a former ambassador and foreign service officer told us, “All societies are determined by answering that question: To whom do I have an obligation?”
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Lesson Plan: How the U.S. Has Treated Wartime Refugees
Students will examine the question of what obligation countries have to refugees. As Afghan and Ukrainian migrants settle in the U.S., this video asks whether refugee resettlement is better now than it was for the Vietnamese 50 years ago.
