Task 11.1 Discuss: “Superdiversity”
Watch the interview about “superdiversity” with Professor Nando Sigona from the University of Birmingham. The interview is available on YouTube.
Task 11.4 Research and Characterize: Victims of the Windrush Scandal
Read the article “’Lambs to the Slaughter’: 50 Lives Ruined by the Windrush Scandal” (Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian, March 19, 2020).
Task 11.5 Speech Analysis: National Conservatism and Immigration
On May 15, 2023, Conservative Home Secretary Suella Braverman gave a speech at a National Conservatism (NatCon) conference in London. According to the organisers from the right-wing populist NatCon movement, “the idea of the nation” was at the heart of the conference. The movement has supporters (including Braverman) within the Conservative Party.
Watch and analyse the part (from 22:05 to 27:50) of Suella Braverman’s speech on “The Value of Conservatism” .
Task 11.6 Podcast Analysis: Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
Listen to the podcast “Trafficked” (The Guardian, March 2023). In four episodes of 30 minutes, the podcast tells the story about Julia, a young Ukrainian woman who escapes modern slavery in the UK. In 2014, Julia was trafficked by criminals from Ukraine to Britain, where she lived as an illegal migrant, working under slave-like conditions in hotels and brothels, for five years.
Task 11.7 Debate: Reparations
Listen to the podcast Today in Focus from The Guardian, November 30, 2021 (38 minutes).
The groups may prepare for the debate by reading Professor Olivette Otele’s article on “The Logic of Slavery Reparations” (The Guardian, March 31, 2023), Lionel Shriver’s piece on “The Case Against Slavery” (The Spectator, April 24, 2021), and the explainer on “The Arguments for and Against Slavery Reparations” (The Week, March 31, 2023).
