Moving Here: New online resource reveals UK migration history

The Moving Here website has now been updated to include significant new resources on the history of migration to the UK, especially designed for schools. Further details of which are included in the following highlights from the associated press release:

Moving Here: New online resource reveals UK migration history: A new online learning resource launches today, offering free and unparalleled access to first-hand experiences of migrants in the UK. Moving Here Schools www.movinghere.org.uk/schools, created in partnership and led by The National Archives, has published contemporary primary source materials to encourage pupils to explore Britain’s multicultural society.

A broad range of learning resources, including interactive activities, has been designed to be used across the school curriculum. The site is ideal to support pupils at Key Stage 2 and 3 (ages 8-14) for History, Geography, Citizenship and ICT. Working with a range of heritage institutions, the project has enabled different minority communities to record their own stories of migration using a variety of sources - stories are told through audio, video, photographs, film and crafts.

For further information, please contact Elise Oliver, press officer at The National Archives
Tel: 020 8392 5237
Email: severine.gould@nationalarchives.gov.uk

Posted in: Multimedia.

UNHCR Online Game & Other News Items

1) Refugee game offers fear, flight and safety – one click at a time. The UNHCR has just launched an English language version of their Against All Odds online game. The game is designed to be of educational value and is primarily aimed at schoolchildren. Further background information can be found in this UNHCR News Story released today and the game itself is available online at: http://www.playagainstallodds.com/

2) The UNHCR has also recently launched two online publications via the UNHCR website (www.unhcr.org) which may be of relevance to researchers and students. The first is entitled "Asylum in the European Union. A Study of the Implementation of the Qualification Directive (November 2007) and this is available to download from: [by clicking here]; the second publication is entitled "UNHCR Position on the Situation of Asylum in Ukraine in the Context of Return of Asylum-Seekers October 2007" and again, this is available to download: [by clicking here].

3) Australia. Austcare (The Australian Humanitarian Aid NGO) has recently launched its latest annual report for the year 2006-07. This can be viewed on the Austcare website at: http://www.austcare.org.au/aboutus/annual-reports.aspx along with a brief online video highlighting the range of Austcare's programs over the last year.

4) Refugees International have just released a number of policy recommendations and fact sheets relating to the exodus of refugees from Zimbabwe. Download a .pdf of these policy recommendations and fact sheets.

Podcasts on Forced Migration Online

News from Forced Migration Online, (FMO).

As part of its expanding collection of multimedia resources, the
Forced Migration Online team have launched a series of podcasts.
These audio resources comprise a series of discussions between
experts on forced migration issues from academia, practitioner
organizations and international agencies. In the near future, the
team plan to add interviews and life histories of refugees and other
displaced people.

In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the
Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) at Oxford (which hosts FMO), FMO are
beginning this series of podcasts with a collection of conversations
with prominent academics, in which they discuss the evolution the
field of refugee and forced migration studies. The first of these is
with the founder and former Director of the RSC, Dr Barbara Harrell-
Bond.

http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts/

http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts/harrell-bond/