A parliamentary debate held earlier this week about teaching migration in the school curriculum highlighted the Society’s school resources about this issue.
Conservative MP John Howell FRGS, argued that migration was a geographical issue and used examples of the Society’s school resources to illustrate this. Mr Howell highlighted the resources we have produced in relation to the Mediterranean Migration Crisis of 2015 in collaboration with Professor Heaven Crawley, who interviewed 500 migrants about the dangerous journeys they undertook to reach safety. He also noted the suite of educational resources which accompany our field research programme, Migrants on the margins, which focuses on the vulnerability and opportunities of migrants trapped on the margins of four of the world’s most pressured cities, Colombo (Sri Lanka), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Harare (Zimbabwe) and Hargeisa (Somaliland).
Mr Howell ended his argument by stating that, although it is valuable to understand the historical context of migration, it is better suited to teaching in the geography curriculum due to the spatial relationships entwined within it.
The full transcript of the debate is available to read on the ‘They Work For You’ website.
Find out more about our Mediterranean Migration Crisis resources.
Find out more about Migrants on the margins.