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Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury
As the frontman of the rock band Queen, Freddie Mercury (real name - Farrokh Bulsara) is known as one of the most innovative and accomplished musicians of all time.
In 1964, the family left for England to escape the violence of the Zanzibar Revolution against the island’s Arab and Indian minorities. Moving to Middlesex with his family, Freddie, then aged 17, was forced to start a new life. Six years later, he befriended his future Queen bandmates, drummer Roger Taylor and guitarist Brian May.
Imagine what we lose if refugees lose our support...
Imagine what we lose if refugees lose our support...
Kashmira Bulsarahttps://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/freddie-mercury-pictures/
Freddie was born in the British protectorate of Zanzibar, a small island off the coast of Tanzania in East Africa. His parents were Parsi immigrants from India. Freddie spent much of his childhood in India, where he attended music school. It was there his friends began to call him Freddie, a name his family also adopted.
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Lena Headey - Dear Freddie Mercury...
Lena Headey - Dear Freddie Mercury...
"Dear Freddie Mercury,
What if the United Kingdom never welcomed you in? Without a safe home to find your voice, the world would never hear it and so many would never have found their own. Your fearlessness would never embolden us all to be fearless; your anthems silenced. We would never be ‘champions’. A world without you wouldn’t be as rhapsodic, triumphant, brilliant; it just wouldn’t be our world. Dear Freddie and all refugees, you made so much more than history, so what will today’s chapter say?"
Immigration
Immigration
Immigration is always topical and often a very provocative topic – perhaps even more so due to our geographical proximity to the coast. Certainly, it is something many people locally have very strong views on but why do people immigrate in the first place? Why do they leave behind their homes, their families and risk their lives on perilous journeys often across thousands of miles? Is immigration, so often portrayed so negatively in the press always bad?
Project Content
Project Content
In this cross-curricular project we hope to answer to some of those questions and to consider some of the problems and challenges that immigration causes and to pose possible solutions.
You will look at what we mean by the terms immigration, refugee, asylum, illegal immigrant, economic migrant
You will look at History and at what point History starts – You will look at our surnames and family Histories to establish just how British any of us really are? We are all immigrants aren’t we?
What does it mean to be British anyway?
You will look at the commonwealth, the British Empire – what we owe as a nation to some of those countries and nationalities. You will look at the Windrush generation.
You will look at the problems immigration causes in the country of destination and the countries of departure. What can be done to stem immigration? Does being anti-immigration make you a racist?
You will look at scapegoating immigrants as the source of all woes and the rise of the far right
You will also look at all the positive aspects of immigration – a quick look at supermarket shelves shows us how interconnected the world we live is in and how interconnected we all are.
You will look at the positive relationships that can exist between countries using our own local context and our Nepali community as a very obvious example
You will look at Brexit and the free movement of people.
You will look at our NHS and what it might look like without immigration. Did you know there are 200 nationalities working within our health service.
You will look at building walls and at detaining children. You will look at refugee camps and mass migration. You will look at human trafficking and organised crime
You will learn what a complex issue and emotive this is – much more than just a negative headline in the paper
Did you Know?
Did you Know?
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