Human Cargo

Local Description

STUDENTS: Year Level: 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12 and 13 PRODUCT: Subject: Social Studies

Description

Population mobility, migrants and refugees, is about migration in all its forms – immigration, emigration, forced, voluntary, historical, contemporary, future, international, internal, mobility and population change – and its causes and results.

Each unit is stand-alone with skill-based activities designed to be accessible to all ability groups.

Topical content written from a New Zealand perspective/context.

The largest migrations in human history are described along with coverage of topical issues such as the refugee crisis in Europe and human trafficking.

Author description

Ruth Naumann is an experienced Social Studies teacher and the author of numerous social studies publications.

Table of contents

CONTENTS: 1. What human migration is 2. Push and pull factors 3. Refuges 4. Asylum seekers 5. International migration 6. Internal migration 7. Child migrants 8. How a country produces migrants 9. Illegal immigration 10. Migrant routes 11. People smuggling 12. Human trafficking 13. Unplanned population explosion 14. Problem-solving 15. White slave cargo 16. Indentured migrants 17. Nation of immigrants 18. Westward migration 19. Dust bowl migration 20. Impact of migration on places 21. Migrants punch above their weight 22. Irish diaspora 23. Early Polynesian migration to Aotearoa 24. White immigration policy 25. Hot migration issue 26. Trans Tasman migration 27. Transportation was forces migration 28. Zero tolerance 29. Germans expelled after World War II 30. Aliyah and Nakba 31. India into two populations 32. Vietnamese boat people 33. Dam causes migration 34. Urbanisation 35. Counterurbanisation 36. Attitudes to immigrants 37. Xenophobia 38. Effects of migration 39. Future environmental migrants 40. The future