Year 12 - Making Wider World Links

Making Wider World Links

1. When was this article published?

The article was published on July 29th, 2019 (wow)

2. What are the areas/people most affected?

North Africa, Medirterranean, and the Middle East. 

3. List 4 statistics and/or facts which stand out from this article. Order them from most significant to least.

• “U.N figures suggest that even before Thursday, some 423 migrants had been killed this year attempting to reach the Italian peninsula.”
• “No words are equal to Thursday’s news that some 150 migrants perished in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya.”
• “Around 140 others managed to survive and were rescued by fishermen and members of the Libyan Coast Nations.”
• “More than 70 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced from their homes as of 2018 - half of them children - which is more than double the number from 20 years ago.”

(wow)

4. How does this article relate to Children of Men?

Because the article is all about the refugee crisis around the world, just like how in Children of Men they have a huge refugee crisis because all the countries were torn apart.

5. Thinking about this article specifically, explain why is it worthwhile to study the film Children of Men.

Because the content of this article relates very heavily to many of the themes in children of men. Children of Men depicts an extreme version of the current refugee crisis, but also not too far off, because there is a problem in places like America where children and other refugees are being kept in cages.