Session 1 · TRACE: Accounts
What got in the way
- 10 minShare interview highlights (with permission). Record the barriers people mentioned and the things that helped.
- 20 minSource stations (Activity: 'Barriers and bridges'): the Chinese poll tax and the 2002 apology; the 1920s campaign against Indian market gardeners; the Dawn Raids of the 1970s and the 2021 apology; a doctor whose overseas qualifications weren't recognised; a refugee family learning English. For each: who made the source, what barrier it shows, and how people responded.
- 15 minBridges: what helps people belong? Language classes, welcoming communities, sports teams, churches, schools, friends. Add to your base map.
- 5 minWrite one fact and one opinion you heard this week about migration. How can you tell them apart?
Session 2 · TRACE: Causes & Consequences
Reading the street
- 10 minPlan the fieldwork: what evidence of migration can you see and hear in a street? Shops, food, places of worship, languages on signs, festivals, street names.
- 30 minStreet survey (Activity: 'Reading the street'): walk a main street or shopping centre. Tally and map evidence of migration. Where possible, talk to a shop owner (with an adult) about when and why they came.
- 10 minBack in class: add the evidence to the base map. What clusters do you see?
Getting started
Use a survey sheet with picture categories to tally: food, faith, language, business, community.
Stretch
Find out how a building on your street has changed use over time, perhaps a church that became a temple, or a shop that changed hands.
Checkpoint
You can name at least three barriers migrants have faced in New Zealand and show on a map how migration has changed a street.
Activities for this week
- Barriers and bridges: What has made it hard for people to belong in New Zealand, and what has helped?
- Reading the street: How can you see migration in the places around you?
Useful this week
- The Dawn Raids ↗ Primary sources and accounts of the 1970s raids on Pacific families, and the 2021 apology.
- Chinese ↗ From the Otago goldfields to the poll tax and the 2002 apology.
- Indians ↗ Gujarati, Punjabi and Fijian Indian migration, prejudice and community.
- Refugees ↗ Who has come to New Zealand seeking safety, and the challenges they faced.
- Migration ↗ Up-to-date numbers of people arriving in and leaving New Zealand.
- Place and ethnic group summaries ↗ Census data for Whanganui and any other place, for your choropleth maps.