I Didn't Know There were Refugees in Rochester”: Developing Citizenship Through Service Learning with Refugee Communities
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 2009
Abstract
Former journalist Susan Moeller uses the phrase "compassion fatigue" to describe how the media's failure to cover international events until they have reached a crisis and the repetition of graphic images of suffering have desensitized American viewers, making them indifferent to human suffering (4, 313). When discussion of assigned literature was derailed by heated political debates, I realized most of my students lacked knowledge about different kinds of immigration, the difficulty of the immigration process, and historic patterns of immigrant exclusion and quotas based on race and nationality.
Publication Information
Rossi, Jennifer C. (2009). "I Didn't Know There were Refugees in Rochester”: Developing Citizenship Through Service Learning with Refugee Communities." Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy 20.2, 76-89.
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