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From http://spanishmama.com/

Much more than a curated collection of links to resources, Elisabeth of Spanish Mama has assembled a wonderfully narrated collection of resources and ideas for studying immigration with Spanish learners. She writes, "The entire history of immigration is so multifaceted it’s hard to know what to cover in Spanish class. One of the big dangers is presenting any part of immigration as one-dimensional. If you present lopsided materials, your students might walk away thinking:

"Latin America is: poverty, violence, and corruption. 
All Latin Americans want to move to the U.S.
All/most immigrants are undocumented. 
A lot of materials out there focus on the hardships people face before choosing to emigrate, and rightfully so. It’s important that our students grasp the dire situations many people find themselves in. But people are not one-dimensional.

"So, I try to focus on dignity. 

"Not reducing people to rich or poor, 'legal' or 'illegal', but focusing on humanity: telling stories and listening to stories."

Read the full blog post and access the collection of resources at http://spanishmama.com/immigration-in-spanish-class/