List of activities -- Preface -- Part 1: Introduction -- Background -- Why learn about refugees? -- Goals of this curriculum -- Using this curriculum -- Learning about refugees: an overview -- Activities -- 1: Fact or fiction? -- Introductory activity -- Handout 1: Fact or fiction? cards -- Handout 2: Information cards -- 2: What's the news? -- Current-events and geography activity -- 3: Three strikes-you're out! -- Introduction to refugee studies -- Handout 3: Asylum application -- Handout 4: Where do they come from? Where do they go? -- Handout 5: US admissions statistics -- Handout 6: Resettlement and asylum statistics -- 4: Packing your suitcase -- Simulation activity -- Part 2: Refugees And US History -- Background -- Historical overview of global refugee movements -- Refugees in US history -- Handout 7: US immigration and refugee policy timeline -- Handout 8: Growth of a nation: a historical perspective on immigrants and refugees in the United States -- Activities -- 5: Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe: 1890-1990 -- Case studies in changing policy and circumstances -- Handout 9: Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe: 1890-1990, historical overview -- Handout 10: Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe: 1890-1990, case studies -- 6: From exclusion to acceptance -- Restrictions against Asian immigrants and refugees during the last 150 years -- Handout 11: From exclusion to acceptance: restrictions against Asian immigrants -- 7: Getting the words right -- Vocabulary activity using immigration and refugee terms -- Handout 12: Getting the words right: a vocabulary activity -- 8: Interpreting cartoons -- Refugees in the United States as seen through editorial cartoons -- Handout 13: Refugees in political cartoons -- 9: Numbers tell the story -- Interpreting time lines and charts -- Handout 14: Numbers tell the story: interpreting time lines and charts -- Part 3: Refugees And The United States Today -- Background -- United States refugee and asylum policy -- Applying for refugee status and asylum in the United States -- Activities -- 10: United States refugee law -- Case studies of refugees in the United States -- Handout 15: Interpreting US Refugee Law (part 1): The Case of Canas-Segovia -- Handout 16: Interpreting US Refugee Law (part 2): The Decision of the Ninth Circuit Court -- Handout 17: Well-founded fear of persecution? The Case of Florvil Samedi -- 11: You be the judge -- Mock trial to determine eligibility for asylum -- 12: How far should we open the door? -- Judging criteria for deciding how many refugees to admit -- Handout 18: How far should we open the door? -- 13: Are some more equal than others? -- Evaluating who should be granted asylum -- Handout 19: Are some more equal than others?

14: How generous are we? -- Statistics about refugee assistance and asylum -- Handout 20: Who's paying the bill? -- Handout 21: Top donors to refugee relief in 1993 -- Handout 22: Asylum cases filed with US Immigration and Naturalization Service Directors -- 15: Locking up refugees? -- Practicing and analyzing discussion skills -- Handout 23: Detention of persons seeking asylum in the United States -- 16: Sanctuary and the law -- Decision-making activity -- Handout 24: Sanctuary movement in the United States -- Handout 25: Case of sanctuary -- 17: Crossing the schoolhouse border -- Determining responsibility for helping refugees adjust to a new school -- Handout 26: Voices of refugee schoolchildren -- Handout 27: My story by "Rebeca Rivera" -- 18: Calculating the escape -- Handout 28: Human Rights abuses in Haiti -- Handout 29: Calculating the escape: problems -- 19: Using the movie El Norte in the classroom -- Discussion questions and suggested activities -- Part 4: Refugees And Your Community -- Background -- Refugees in your community -- Organizations working for refugees -- Activities -- 20: Refugees in your community -- Cooperative fact-finding activity -- Handout 30: Refugees in your community: assessing what you already know -- Handout 31: Refugees in your community: verifying and expanding your information -- Handout 32: Refugees in your community: compiling your investigation results -- 21: You can do more -- Activities involving refugees in your community -- 22: Power of the pen -- Letter-writing activity -- Handout 23: Writing letters that have an effect -- Handout 34: Facts for letter writing -- Part 5: Appendices -- A: Immigration and refugee terms -- B: Refugees and the United States: a teaching bibliography -- C: Refugee filmography -- D: Directory of refugee resources -- E: Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Official version -- Colloquial version -- Index.