Refugees in Today’s Europe

Synopsis: A video-based teaching pack which uses clips from the IBT/Yorkshire television documentary series THE DISPOSSESSED, adapted for schools. Includes testimonies and views of refugees from Eritrea, Turkish Kurdistan, Colombia and Somalia, as well as schoolchildren in Britain. Looks at entry restrictions, detention on arrival, implications of the ‘new Europe’ for asylum seekers, racist attacks on refugee hostels in Germany, and underlying causes of the crisis.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min.
Year of production: 1992
Availability: Sale; 2000 sale: £15.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) (DEDU)
Documentation: Accompanying teacher’s notes and student activity sheets.
Uses: Ages 15 and up.
Subjects: Social welfare
Keywords: Europe; refugees

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Notes: A long-established, not-for-profit organisation with a large collection DVDs, specialising in the sectors of general and mental health, child care, race relations, war and peace, addictions, the third world, ecology, civil rights, personal relationships, educational issues, and social work training. Concord also handles titles made for the Graves Medical Audio-visual Library. Sale on DVD. Formerly known as Concord Video and Film Council. In 2014 Concord began to offer selected films as Video on Demand, via Vimeo.

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