Objectives
- To sensitize about the inequalities of each person to cross the border
- To show the inconsistencies of the system
Short description
The activity attempt to show to the students to feel the inequality of the people how wants to cross the border.
Moment #1
The participants are divide by groups.
- Group 1: police and border
- Group 2: migrants and raw material
Migrants:
- Afghan woman with 3 kids
- Nicaragua men
- Gay couple of italian tourists
- Brazilian transexual teenager
- USA business rich woman
Raw material:
- Coltan
- Avocado
- Cacao
- Petrol
- Diamond
Group 3: observers
The facilitators give them instructions about how the group has to act.
- The border people has to simulate a border, do the participants have to be holding their hands in a straight line. They are going to open the border only when the police accept the person to cross.
- The police people are going to open or close the border according the real rules and tips recommended by the facilitators.
- The migrants and raw material group have to cross the border. Each person has a different identity provided by the facilitators, but they don’t know which identity are their until the activity ends. The identity may be refugees, tourists, business person, minerals, food, etc.
- The observer group only has to observe and take notes.
[15 minutes]
Moment #2
The facilitators stop the performance and the 3d group discover their identities.
The facilitators give to the groups a card with three questions.
Group 1:
- How did you feel during the performance?
- Why some people could cross and some not? Think about why some raw material could cross and some people not.
- How the people who couldn’t cross feel?
Group 2:
- How did you feel during the performance?
- Why some people could cross and some not? Think about why some raw material could cross and some people not.
- How the people who was saying who could cross or who not feel?
Group 3:
- How did you feel?
- Why some people could cross and some not? Think about why some raw material could cross and some people not.
- Did you feel the need to act in the performance? Why?
[15 minutes]
Moment #3
Show to the participants a video with the objective to awareness about the migration.
After the video, the groups read the answers and make a debate around the border, the migration and civil rights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwfNsySgpWI
[15 minutes]
Notes
The participants could help each other to cross the border but they should not tell the identity of the others.
The facilitators could intervene with some tips if the police and the border group doesn’t role like reality.
The facilitators could add some questions in the final debate like:
- Does the women have the same problems to cross the border?
- Do you know where our daily objects come?
- Do you know how to aware people about this issue?
Resources
- Stickers notes
- Marker
- Cartoline paper (A4x100)
