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Secondary ESOL
Professional Readings: Refugees
On ESOL Online
On Other Websites
- English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL): The Refugee Handbook For Schools
This MOE resource provides guidance and information for schools on meeting the social, emotional and educational needs of students from refugee backgrounds.
- Families Learning Together: A Resource for Students and Families
The MOE Refugee Co-ordinators' Team has developed a series of booklets in English, Arabic, Somali, Amharic, Farsi and Khmer.
- Aiming High: Guidance on Supporting the Education of Asylum Seeking and Refugee Children
This brief booklet offers sound advice for welcoming students from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds. (From the British Department for Education and Skills.)
- Aotearoa Ethnic Network Journal
The AEN Journal is an online journal, published three times per year. It publishes commentaries and critical perspectives from those in or involved with ethnic and religious communities in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The AEN Journal promotes critical debate on issues facing migrants and refugees, ethnic diasporic and religious communities.
- Burmese
Links from the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon.
- Children of Conflict
This BBC World Service report visits the war zones on several continents to investigate what is happening to children caught up in conflict
- Chinese in Australasia and the Pacific: Old and New Migrations and Cultural Change
Papers from the 1998 Otago conference.
- Community Cohesion Education Standards for Schools
This report sees schools as central in breaking down the barriers between students and helping to create cohesive communities (British Department for Education and Skills).
- The Cultural Orientation Resource Center: Culture Profiles
Cultural profiles for different refugee groups in the USA including Somali, Afghan, Muslim, Iraqi and Iraqi Kurd. Most of these profiles are available for download.
- Defining Middle Eastern Boundaries: Lines in the Sand
Summaries of Middle East history. Teachers' resources are available.
- An Education Refuge
A report on Selwyn College’s programme for students from refugee backgrounds and their communities (Education Gazette).
- EthnoMed: Ethnic Medicine Information
An American site with information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other issues relevant to the health care of recent immigrants.
- Fact Books
Information on almost every country.
- Language and Content-Area Instruction for Secondary LEP Students with Limited Formal Schooling: Language Arts and Social Studies
This guide presents a brief introduction to developing learning activities for students with limited educational experiences.
- The Middle East Network Information Centre
Background information on Middle Eastern and Asian countries, from the University of Texas.
- Muslim Women's League
A nonprofit American Muslim organisation. Offers a range of information about Muslims and the roles and rights of women within Islam.
- Refugee Health
Covers: Who is a refugee? How do refugees enter New Zealand? Also publications and useful links (NZ Ministry of Health).
- Refugee Health Care: A Handbook for Health Professionals
Information about: resettlement, communicating effectively with clients from refugee backgrounds, physical and mental health issues (Ministry of Health).
- Refugee Voices' Literature Review
From the Dept of Immigration's Refugee Voices Project. The literature review surveys research on the process of refugee resettlement and the key barriers to resettlement (2001, PDF).
- Second Generation Australians: Report for the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
2002 study examining the social (including English literacy), economic and demographic outcomes of second generation Australian migrants.
- Shifting the Gaze in South African Classrooms: New Pedagogies, New Publics, New Democracies
2004 report by Pippa Stein and Denise Newfield on a multiliteracies project based on Nelson Mandela's call to move beyond shaking off the chains to living in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others (PDF).
- Somali Refugee Youth in Maryland: Needs Assessment
A study that gathered information on the school and life experiences of Somali students and made recommendations for improving their circumstances (PDF).
- A Study on Needs of Asylum-Seekers/Refugees for Early Intervention
The findings clearly show that there is a wide gap between demand and service provision for asylum-seekers in Auckland (1999, NZ Refugee Council).
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