Step 1: Formulating a clear and focused research question

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1 KIS MYP Humanities Research Journal Based on the Middle School Research Planner by Andrew McCarthy, Digital Literacy Coach, UWCSEA Dover See UWCSEA Research Skills for more tips on Researching an essay Step 1: Formulating a clear and focused research question With the help of your teacher, clarify which concepts you will be inquiring into. Unit focus (topic) Displaced People Concept focus Change, Genres, Identity, Interpretation, Choice My Research Question (should be an engaging, relevant, open-ended and concept-based question) What causes people to become refugees + IDP s + how are they affected? Justification of Relevance (explain why your research question is important to study) It is important to study because it ll give us some ideas about the topic and towards what we are studying. Also it should help us with our study to make it easier because it s a question that will give us a general idea about our unit.

2 Step 2: Planning your investigation Keywords are the key to unlocking information on the Internet. Instead of searching for long phrases, try using commonly used words. Once you have found a good source, use the Find Tool (Command + F) to find words within the page. Keywords Refugees Genocide War Persecution Internally Displaced People (IDP) Natural Disasters Ethnic Group Economic Migrant Asylum Religion Race Discrimination Generate narrower and more focused guiding questions that will help you answer your larger questions. Guiding questions may be open or closed questions, and a variety of both would be useful. Generate as many questions as you can to support your plan. Guiding Questions (indicate which concepts the questions connect to)

3 HUM HUM LIT What happens to refugees if a camp is ruined? How do refugees feel in camps or on the way to the camp? Where are refugees coming from and where are they going? Why would a displaced person choose to stay in their home country? Where are the displaced people from and where do they go? What causes a person to leave their home? How is a refugee changed by migration? LIT PA PA PA How are Refugees or IDP s shown in fiction of nonfiction texts? What factors lead people to leave their homes? How can we show this through a tableaux? How can we interpret changes in identity through performance? Do external or internal factors have more influence on personal identity? The next important step is making an action plan for the days that you will be investigating. List the day, the description of your action, and then check off when you have it completed. Add rows if needed for extra days. Planned date to complete Description of what you will work on Check when completed

4 Step 3: Recording your information The following research grid is a recommended format for compiling the information you gather throughout your investigation. It is always a good idea to cross-check your information (in other words, see if the same information can be verified in another source). You need to consider a range of sources: Academic Articles, Websites, Surveys, Interviews, Statistical Databases, Books, Magazines, Encyclopedias. Whatever source you choose, ensure that you analyse the source for reliability. See the Source Analysis checklist below. Put the name of the source (title of book, magazine or article; or URL) in the columns below. Highlights: Key - Refugee Camps - Displaced People - Natural Disasters - Refugee Leaves - How are Refugees shown in Fictions/Non-fiction Texts? Guiding Question: What happens to refugees if a camp is ruined? How do refugees feel in camps or on the way to the camp? Where are refugees coming from and where are they going? Source 1: Angelina Jolie What s Going On? Child Refugees in Tanzania Part1. N.d. YouTube. Web. 08 Sept < Source 2: Angelina Jolie What s Going On? Child Refugees in Tanzania Part2. N.d. YouTube. Web. 08 Sept < YPFnUR8> Source 3: Angelina Jolie What s Going On? Child Refugees in Tanzania Part3. N.d. YouTube. Web. 08 Sept < Source 4: Broadhead, Sharonne. Urban Refugees in Bangkok Refugee Detention Source 5: Larribeau, Sabine. Urban Refugees in Bangkok Refugee Detention Source 6: Turner, Dwight. Urban Refugees in Bangkok Refugee Detention

5 Quotes o I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. (Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre) o Summary in your own words - No choice

6 - In camps - Wait & Hoping - War; external factors - 150,000 Congolese moves to Tanzania - Invasion - Ethnic group, housics - Got to Tanzania by Boats. - Got to Locufu camp - Assigned to live by area, block & plot - Hunger; not enough food - Migration splits in groups. - Hope; the refugees needs to have hope to survive - Activities to help Refugees have a bright future - Cooperation - Lived in Bangkok s IDC centre for one year - Had been given Asylum in the USA, by UNHCR - The options refugees have are being relocated/resettled in their camp, they could be resettled to a richer country that have enough money to support refugees, basically moving on-wards - Live in a bad environment - Ragged clothes and dirt - Urban refugees are refugees that lives in a city not in a refugee camp - You will be arrested because you are illegally living in the country - Hygiene - Loneliness - No Private Space - Low food quality - Not enough/clean bathrooms for everyone - Not enough beds - Lights are on all the time - No school - No privacy - No freedom - Limitations - Fear - Uncertain Future Pictures, diagram, chart with captions

7 Personal connections Questions about the topic How many types of Refugee Camps are their, i.e. Detention centers, camps, etc. Why do refugees who don t have conflict in their country needed to leave their country to get arrested in another country instead? Why don t they just be displaced people instead?

8 Why are refugee camps so dirty and full of illness? What happened to refugees that made them left their own countries? Why do refugees have to always be poor? If they aren t poor, then why don t they do a Visa instead of illegally crossing the border? What do refugees have to faced when they re in refugee camps? What is the difference between a Refugee camp and a Detention Center? What is the difference (in their lifes) between an urban refugee and refugees? Guiding Question: Why would a displaced person choose to stay in their home country? Where are the displaced people from and where do they go?

9 Source 1: "Niger." Millions of People Don t Have Enough to Eat (n.d.): n. pag. Mercy Corps. Web. 8 Sept Source 2: Broadhead, Sharonne. Urban Refugees in Bangkok Refugee Detention Source 3: Larribeau, Sabine. Urban Refugees in Bangkok Refugee Detention Source 4: Turner, Dwight. Urban Refugees in Bangkok Refugee Detention

10 Quotes o I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes. (Amy Tan) Summary in your own words - Mercy Corps at the Tillabéri Region - Mercy Corps did the following things to the Refugees at the Tillabéri Region to help the Refugees: 1. money and buy food locally 2. children and help them get assistance 3. vaccination and advice 4. early warning systems 5. pregnant and lactating mothers 6. on the prevention of malnutrition 7. repairing wells and establishing community gardens 8. cash-for-work activities 9. daily milk production 10. store or transport dairy products - unpredictable rains and poor harvests - Schools are starting to get emptier 11. children leave with their parents 12. on their own 13. to find work to pay for food - Moved from their homes but didn t cross an International Border (refugees cross an International Frontier Pictures, diagram, chart with captions

11 Personal connections Questions about the topic - What is a drought? What are the chain of events that caused the drought? What are the effects of a drought environmentally, economically, socially (health)? - Steps of a Drought: 14. Less Rain/no rain - EN 15. Ground dries up - EN 16. Plants die - EN 17. Air is dry/hot - EN 18. Animals Suffer - EN 19. Run out of food - SO 20. Ground cracked and erodes - EN 21. No replanting = no food - EC 22. Some people leave, animals/human starve - EC & SO 23. Import Food = very expensive, family members leave to work other places = children quit school to work, no education for kids - EC & SO - What do people in a drought area choose to do? Guiding Question: What are natural disasters? How they affected displaced people?

12 Source 1: Larribeau, Sabine. Urban Refugees in Bangkok Refugee Detention Source 2: Broadhead, Sharonne. Urban Refugees in Bangkok Refugee Detention Source 3: Natural Disasters. BBC News. BBC, Web 08 Sept < Source 4: Turner, Dwight. Urban Refugees in Bangkok Refugee Detention Quotes o We know what we are, but not what we may be. (William Shakespeare) Summary in your own words - Natural Disasters are something that happens natural itself. - Natural Disasters sometimes are capable of killing people and even destroying other things too, such as buildings, etc. - Natural disasters are natural, events. - A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth. 1. An underwater/underground Earth Quake can create a Tsunami 2. Tornadoes are formed quickly and easily (a tornado occurs where there usually are tornadoes), also it leaves trails of what it destroys (ed) (Tornadoes & Hurricane are called when they hit USA, Typhoon is called when it hits Pacific Ocean & Cyclone is called when it hits the Indian Ocean! 3. A Super-volcano is any volcano capable of producing a volcanic eruption with a volume greater than 1,000 km³. This is thousands of times larger than normal volcanic eruptions. But humans have never witnessed a supervolcano eruption! 4. Land Slides mostly occurs on Mountains or lands that aren t flat or plain. 5. Forest Fires, normally starts when 1 or 2 tree or rocks hits each other. 6. Floods destroy homes, take lives and spread disease - Witness Violence - Feelings - Emotions Pictures, diagram, chart with captions

13 (bangladesh flood 2011) Personal connections Questions about the topic Guiding Question: What causes a person to leave their home? Source 1: Anthieng, Majak. "Refugees: Telling Their Stories 2005." UNHCR. UNHCR The UN Refugee Agency, Web. 26 Sept < Source 2: Broadhead, Sharonne. Urban Refugees in Bangkok Refugee Detention Source 3: Larribeau, Sabine. Urban Refugees in Bangkok Refugee Detention Source 4: Ellis, Deborah. The Breadwinner. Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, Print.

14 Source 5: Sam, David. "Refugees: Telling Their Stories 2005." UNHCR. UNHCR The UN Refugee Agency, Web. 26 Sept <UN Refugee Agency, Web. 26 Sept >. Source 6: Turner, Dwight. Urban Refugees in Bangkok Refugee Detention Source 7: Jook, Grace. "Refugees: Telling Their Stories 2005." UNHCR. UNHCR The UN Refugee Agency, Web. 26 Sept < Source 8: Stanton, Brandon. Interview. Web log post. HONY. Humans of New York, 14 Aug Web. 26 Sept < Source 9: Stanton, Brandon. Interview. Web log post. HONY. Humans of New York, 8 Aug Web. 26 Sept < - Quotes o "You're not going anywhere, so why do you need a leg? (Ellis) This was why her father needed to sell the fake leg to make money, because anyways, her mother and the girls (or women) can t go outside {that much [they also need to where a burqas (when they go outside)]} - Summary in your own words o Terrorist o Bombing o Took control of the country o Panic o Quick Evacuation o Guest Speakers - Refugee conversion: Persecution Protocol, expands the Refugee Law - Social Group; arguing about constitute - Religion; fleeing the country because the country doesn t like the religion (in their country) - Refugees are who flee their countries, they re homeless and poor (no money) o The main reason for people to flee Pakistan is Religion - Pictures, diagram, chart with captions

15 - Personal connections - I think that the story connects with displaced people more than refugees, because Parvana and her family didn t left Afghanistan they just left their houses because their house kept getting bombed every time they changed to a new house. - I think that the things the terrorists are doing (in the story) to them, is really good, because the Taliban s are very religious. So they think if they protected it their way it would make the country better. But only the Taliban s think that way, because many people disagree with what they re doing (in the story). It s like someone trying to do a good work, but they re trying too hard. That in the end, it turns out bad. - Questions about the topic - I wonder why Parvana always have to change to a smaller house overtime they changed houses. - I wonder if Parvana thinks differently or the same way as the Taliban terrorists do (Girls have education or girls shouldn t have education)? Guiding Question: How are Refugees or IDP s shown in fiction of nonfiction texts? Source 1: Ellis, Deborah. The Breadwinner. Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, Print. Source 2: Anthieng, Majak. "Refugees: Telling Their Stories 2005." UNHCR. UNHCR The UN Refugee Agency, Web. 26 Sept < Source 3: Sam, David. "Refugees: Telling Their Stories 2005." UNHCR. UNHCR The UN Refugee Agency, Web. 26 Sept < Source 4: Broadhead, Sharonne. Urban Refugees in Bangkok Refugee Detention Source 5: Larribeau, Sabine. Urban Refugees in Bangkok Refugee Detention

16 Source 6: Turner, Dwight. Urban Refugees in Bangkok Refugee Detention Source 7: Jook, Grace. "Refugees: Telling Their Stories 2005." UNHCR. UNHCR The UN Refugee Agency, Web. 26 Sept < Source 8: Stanton, Brandon. Interview. Web log post. HONY. Humans of New York, 14 Aug Web. 26 Sept < Source 9: Stanton, Brandon. Interview. Web log post. HONY. Humans of New York, 8 Aug Web. 26 Sept < Quotes - "Why don't we sell Nooria's good clothes? She's not going anywhere." - "She'll need them when she gets married." Nooria Summary in your own words - Feelings are describe - Traits are describe - Actions are describe - Appearance are describe (sometimes) - They have hope and keep fighting for a better future (Betty Majak) - Loss of self-confidence and self-belief (Screaming Angie) - Syria, is one of the countries that has war. Which makes people fleeing the country and becoming refugees - No Work Allowed - No Valid visa - Non-refulgent - Hope - No general knowledge o Hard to have life in their futures - Donations Pictures, diagram, chart with captions Personal connections I think that refugees and displaced people are shown in books/novels/memoirs with their appearance, actions, feelings described Questions about the topic Guiding Question: What factors lead people to leave their homes? How can we show this through a tableaux?

17 Source 1: Vezier, Christopher. Thailand, Bangkok. Speech. Source 2: Yansomboon, Nanop. "Tableaux." Tableaux. Thailand, Bangkok. 24 Sept Speech. Quotes Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. (Oscar Wilde) Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you. (George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones) Summary in your own words Find inspiration from a story Try to make our performance based on good stories Perform with emotions like real refugees Looks real-listic and professional Pictures, diagram, chart with captions Personal connections Questions about the topic How can we show/act ourselves as a refugee? Why do we perform tableaux?

18 How do we know how to live life like refugees (act as a refugee)? Guiding Question: How can we interpret changes in identity through performance? Source 1: Vezier, Christopher. Thailand, Bangkok. Speech. Source 2: Yansomboon, Nanop. "Tableaux." Tableaux. Thailand, Bangkok. 24 Sept Speech. Quotes Summary in your own words By acting Cooperating By showing changes By showing their identity By showing emotions By having inspiration By having our story based-on real-life events Pictures, diagram, chart with captions

19 Personal connections Questions about the topic How do we show change in a tableaux when there s only 1 scene Why do we need to perform a tableaux? Why can t we just perform freeze-frame because it has 3 frames and is easier to show change? Guiding Question: How can we interpret changes in identity through performance? Source 1: Vezier, Christopher. Thailand, Bangkok. Speech. Source 2: Yansomboon, Nanop. "Tableaux." Tableaux. Thailand, Bangkok. 24 Sept Speech.

20 Quotes Summary in your own words By having the story based on the real-life events that happens to real story By planning how to perform like refugees in the real performance By watching videos about refugees By researching about the toughness refugees have to face and challenges they have to face to survive By showing different identity in each refugee Pictures, diagram, chart with captions Personal connections Questions about the topic Why do refugees have different identities?

21 Step 4: Citing your sources As a writer it is your ethical responsibility to give proper credit to sources. It is also very important that you give credit in accordance with a style of citations. You must use MLA style formatting, and should use EasyBib.com for help in the process. If you fail to give proper credit to a source you have committed plagiarism. 1. The Works Cited page should always be the last page of your essay, report or presentation. 2. Sources should be organized alphabetically by the first word or name in the entry. This first word or name is what you use in the paper when making a direct citation or quote from the author. 3. You should include every source that is in your research above. 4. Use Easybib.com to create your Works Cited page. Remember there s a difference between a Works Cited page and a full Bibliography. Please check with your teacher which one is required for this assignment. Bibliography = An alphabetical list of every source used in your investigation, whether or not information from that source ended up in your final product. Works Cited = An alphabetical list of all the sources that you specifically used in your product by including an in-text citation. In-text citations = An indication of where information has been obtained and has a full citation in the works cited list. Normally the citation includes just the author s last name and the page number. For instance (Anderson 58). For on-line sources, see the examples below:

22 Term Definition Example 1. Asylum The Protection given by a country to someone who has escaped from his or her home country. 2. (Economic) Migrant A Person that travels to another country to have a better life. 3. Environmental Migrant People who are forced to migrate, due to environmental/natural issues/disaster. 4. Ethnic Group A category of people who has an appearance of common ancestral, social, national experience or cultural. 5. Natural Disasters Natural Disasters are disasters that are made naturally not humanly. 6. Genocide Killings of large groups of people, mostly in an Ethnic group of people. It is a severe form of Persecution. Thaksin has been given asylum in U.A.E. People in countries that are less developed migrated to developed countries to have a job or a life. People in the Tohoku (north of Honshu island, Japan) migrated to other places because their houses got destroyed. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi s were killing Jew s in Germany. A Tsunami hit the Northern part of the Honshu island in Japan. Nazi s were killing people that are Jewish because they have different religion. 7. Internally Displaced People (IDP) Internally displaced people are people that have migrated from their homes, due to reasons; prosecution, natural disasters, wars, mob, etc. But have not yet left heir countries, and have no supports from the government. A terrorist group burned the homes, of people in Central Africa. 8. Discrimination The difference of each living creature. Unique kind of people; Homosexual, gay, lesbian, etc.

23 9. Illegal Immigrant A person that has crossed into another country (internationally) illegally (wrong). 10. Immigrant A person that migrates/moved to another country for a reason. 11. Nationality A person that has a different nationality living in a country with a different nationality. 12. Persecution Even in times of apparent peace, certain groups or individuals in society may be Subject to violence and imprisonment. 13. Race Difference in people made people think without a reason, and decides to be above one another. 14. Refugee A person or groups of people that migrates to another country illegally because they re homeless and they don t have any food or money to help them. They migrate to countries around them that has refugee camps before they get into danger. Refugees are illegal immigrants because they flee their home country from danger. Another nationality person in a different country/different nationality country. A person with different nationality in countries that have conflict with each other might capture and use them as a slave and hostage. The white people took the Africans (black people) to be tortured and to become slaves, because their appearances are black, not white like them. So they think that they re higher than the black people. The Europeans when they first met with the Africans, which had black skin, unlike their white skins. They first thought that they were to be above the African s because when dirtiness comes to white, it first turns yellow then black. So they thought they were cleaner than the Africans. Many people are fleeing from D.R. of The Congo because there has been terrorists bombing and killing people in the country.

24 15. United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) A group that helps refugees to safety and giving them shelter, food and things that you need to survive. There are UNHCR camps all over the world just to help refugees! Highlights: Key Refugee Camps Displaced People Natural Disasters --- Refugee Leaves --- How are Refugees shown in Fictions/Non-fiction Texts? The Story of One girl: One year in Immigration detention & Interview/talk Divea: - Lived in Bangkok s IDC centre for one year - Had been given Asylum in the USA, by UNHCR Refugees: - Refugee conversion: Persecution Protocol, expands the Refugee Law - Social Group; arguing about constitute - Religion; fleeing the country because the country doesn t like the religion (in their country) - 50 million Refugees over the world (after the world war 2) - Syria, is one of the countries that has war. Which makes people fleeing the country and becoming refugees - Migrants are people who migrates because of their jobs, future and economy - Refugees are who flee their countries, they re homeless and poor (no money) Refugees options: - The options refugees have are being relocated/resettled in their camp, they could be resettled to a richer country that have enough money to support refugees, basically moving on-wards - Giving an Asylum are local integration - Voluntary repatriation is going back to the home country IDP s:

25 - Moved from their homes but didn t cross an International Border (refugees cross an International Frontier Urban Refugees and Refugees Camp: - Lives in a bad environment - Ragged clothes and dirt Urban Refugees: - Urban refugees are refugees that lives in a city not in a refugee camp urban refugees in Bangkok (BKK) - Most of the Refugees in Bangkok are from Pakistan - The main reason for people fleeing from Pakistan is Religion Refugee s situations in Bangkok (BKK) and other countries: - Concerns: - No Work Allowed - No Valid visa - Non-refulgent - You will be arrested because you are illegally living in the country Challenges Faced in Detention: - Hygiene - Loneliness - No Private Space - Low food quality - Not enough/clean bathrooms for everyone - Not enough beds - Lights are on all the time - No school - No privacy - No freedom - Limitations - Fear - Uncertain Future Kids are normal [like us (basically)] - Hope Challenges in the future - Witness Violence - Feelings - Emotions - No general knowledge o Hard to have life in their futures

26 What can be done: - Organizations o Create immigration laws to protect Asylum seekers o Able to go to school Able to have knowledge o Better conditions inside the Detention center o Limit the time of people who re staying there What can you do? - Donations - Take Action - Raise (raising) awareness Bibliography: Angelina Jolie What s Going On? Child Refugees in Tanzania Part1. N.d. YouTube. Web. 08 Sept < Angelina Jolie What s Going On? Child Refugees in Tanzania Part2. N.d. YouTube. Web. 08 Sept < YPFnUR8> Angelina Jolie What s Going On? Child Refugees in Tanzania Part3. N.d. YouTube. Web. 08 Sept < Anthieng, Majak. "Refugees: Telling Their Stories 2005." UNHCR. UNHCR The UN Refugee Agency, Web. 26 Sept < Broadhead, Sharonne. Urban Refugees in Bangkok Refugee Detention Ellis, Deborah. The Breadwinner. Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, Print. Natural Disasters. BBC News. BBC, Web 08 Sept < Sam, David. "Refugees: Telling Their Stories 2005." UNHCR. UNHCR The UN Refugee Agency, Web. 26 Sept <UN Refugee Agency, Web. 26 Sept >. Turner, Dwight. Urban Refugees in Bangkok Refugee Detention

27 Jook, Grace. "Refugees: Telling Their Stories 2005." UNHCR. UNHCR The UN Refugee Agency, Web. 26 Sept < Sam, David. "Refugees: Telling Their Stories 2005." UNHCR. UNHCR The UN Refugee Agency, Web. 26 Sept < Larribeau, Sabine. Urban Refugees in Bangkok Refugee Detention Turner, Dwight. Urban Refugees in Bangkok Refugee Detention Jook, Grace. "Refugees: Telling Their Stories 2005." UNHCR. UNHCR The UN Refugee Agency, Web. 26 Sept < Stanton, Brandon. Interview. Web log post. HONY. Humans of New York, 14 Aug Web. 26 Sept < Stanton, Brandon. Interview. Web log post. HONY. Humans of New York, 8 Aug Web. 26 Sept < Vezier, Christopher. Thailand, Bangkok. Speech Yansomboon, Nanop. "Tableaux." Tableaux. Thailand, Bangkok. 24 Sept Speech.