Activity 5.2: Understanding the Journeys
In an attempt to reach a closer understanding of the refugee experience, the students will undertake a simulation exercise. Use Handout 5.5: Fleeing For Your Life: Refugee Role-Play for this activity. In order to make the exercise as true to life as possible, discuss behaviors and attitudes necessary for the activity’s success. After the role-play, discuss what the class has learned, using some of the questions below. Questions:
- What would it be like to be a refugee?
- What kinds of conditions force someone to decide to leave his/her country?
- How does one prepare?
- How does one decide where to go? How to get there?
- What happens when one arrives at the destination?