Youth and Migration: YAM 2008

Youth and Migration (YAM2008) is a digital learning program on migration history. You are invited to take a journey in time and space by following your family roots decades and centuries back.

The program starts with a test that challenges your attitudes towards strangers and foreigners. Then you are invited to set up your family tree. Making your way through the program you will also learn about migration in your own country and the rest of the world. Whenever you produce or come across something interesting, you may save this information to your scrapbook. In the end you will have produced your own personal history book placing you and your relatives in the middle of events.

It is necessary that you create your personal password and username. Unless this is done, it will be impossible to retrieve your own information. Go to Youth and Migration : YAM 2008 to get started.

1. Having done the attitude test, you may click the family history button to fill in your own family tree and find out where you came from. Remember that you need to be logged on to save your information. The information you have filled in will appear in the shape of a newspaper where you and your family make the headlines.

2. Under the button migration history you will find a world map and also maps of continents and single countries. Under the map there is a time line going back to around AD 1500. By moving the cursor on the time line, information on migration history will appear as short texts, photographs, statistics, etc. Information that you have filled in about yourself and your family will appear as part of the general migration history. All information and data that you produce or copy can be saved in your personal scrapbook. Log in and make your personal scrapbook.

3. In most families today you do not have to search very far back to find migrants. You may yourself have migrated from another country or from a different region within the country or your parents, grandparents or great grandparents may have done so. What did you find out about your family? Write keywords.