[Canada]

Vision for our Station

Our Names:
1) Julia (posted in red)
2) Kashawn(posted in blue)
3) Daniel(posted in green)
4) Acel Dioso (posted in purple)

Part 1: How the station will look and what will happen
there
1. Here are some photos that give a feel for the images were
modelling our station on:
Include captions that explain what the photo actually shows, and a link to
the source
Photo 1

Source
Wikipedia Refugee
Camps

Photo 2

Source for the picture

Photo 3

Photo 4

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2. Are you planning to make your station a specific place within

your country? (for example, a city where lots of refugees live) or
just the country as a whole?
Ottawa is one of the cities in canada where they accept most refugees

Explain the reasoning behind this decision

Canada vowed to let in 100,00 refugees within the next year so cities within Canada are
willing to let them in. Ottawa was the city that brought one of the most refugees
although they stopped because of too many coming at once and they get overstressed.

3. Heres a blueprint for our station

[either use insert drawing or draw this on paper, take a photo, and insert it here]

4. Here are the objects and structures we plan to have in our

station
We are planning to be underneath or have a tent as our station to give the effect of
where refugees live. We will have the canadian money and some things that represents
canada

5. Here are all the stations refugees can get to our station
DIRECTLY from:
UNHCR if accepted by the U.S.A

6. Here are all the stations refugees can go to DIRECTLY from our
station:
We are the last station so they wouldnt advance at all

7. Describe the experience of approaching your station. Will

anything happen to a refugee as they approach? Who will greet
them? How will they be greeted? Will different refugees be
greeted in different ways? If so, will that be random or based on a
specific characteristic (such as religion or wealth)?
Approaching our station they will feel welcome. We should have like an IRC person
welcoming them with a welcome poster. We should also have a few people waiting for
them. I dont think different refugees will be greeted differently because Canada's very
friendly and open toward refugees even using the #WelcomeRefugees when then first
families came over from Syria to Canada.

8. What options will a refugee have at your station? What dangers

are there? What characters will there be in your station? Who
will want to help them? Who will want to harm or deceive them?
Will there be people who want them to stay? Will there be people
who want to move them along to somewhere else?
If you are in Canada and have had either a refugee claim or a permanent resident
application refused, there may still be options for you. If people smuggle from your station

9. What comes next after your station? Will anyone be

allowed/forced to stay? If so, how will that process work? Will
refugees leave your station on their own, or will they be escorted?
Where will they go next?
Some would be allowed to stay if they fit the requirements and pass all the screenings.
Refugees may be escorted if they are transferred from one place to another but if they
arent allowed then they must be taken to another place or back where they came
from. We can also guide others to another place.

10. How long do you anticipate most refugees will spend in your
station, from beginning to end?
I anticipate that each refugee will only stay like 1 minute in our station because I was a
refugee in the playtest and I only stayed in a station for 1 min minimum.

11. Here are the roles that each of us will play during the
simulation tomorrow:
Make sure you say whos doing what
Daniel: Refugee
Julia: Canadian Officer
Acel Canadian Officer
Kashawn: Canadian Officer

Part 2: Research questions from the Lead Designers:

1. Approximately how many refugees have been let in since the start of the refugee
crisis?
Around 900 refugees a day are let in

Sources:

2. From which border are they coming in, and where are they leaving from?
Sources:

3. How does the country treat their refugees on the border? What about within the
country itself? (This includes anything they may take from refugees or give to refugees.)
Nova Ghadri (refugee) came to Canada and when she came
with her children the immigration police officer greeted
them nicely.

Sources:
http://www
.cbc.ca/news/cana
da/canada-ssyrian-refugeeswonder-whythey-are-beingtreateddifferently1.2891551

4. How difficult is it for each refugee to get into the country?

They need to register to UNHCR which means conducting
Sources:
interviews with those people at their home country. From
http://glob
there they the Canadian government reviews the refugees
alnews.ca/news/2
documentations such as their history, as well as medical and
349421/heressecurity history.From there they are allowed to enter
how-refugeesCanada
are-screenedbefore-arriving(it takes them up to 18 months to get into canada depending
in-canada/
on the refugee)

5. When refugees come to the country, are they passing through or do they intend to
stay?
Well it depends on the refugees destination. If a refugee
goes through Greece to get somewhere else then they intend
to go to that other country. But if a refugee wants to stay in
that country then they can stay.

Sources:
Common
sense

6. How many refugees can the country afford/hold? What is the economic state?
they can accept up to 10,000 refugees or 14,000 each year

Sources:
https://ww
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pv=2&ie=UTF8&safe=active&ss
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&q=how+many+r
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ada+accept

Whats getting done

Whos doing it

When itll be
done by

Station blueprint

Julia

Friday morning

Part 2

Acel

Whenever I finish

Question 10 and 11

Daniel

Dooooooone

Create a system of money within your

station (based on the actual numbers we
find in our research)

Daniel (Kashawn
will support)

Thursday

Research and design settlement process in

your station

Julia

Thursday

Station blueprint
Not sure how to make this
lifelike.
Refugees end up in Ottawa

Acel

Thursday, March
17th

Develop character roles, costumes, and

backstory

Julia

Thursday, March
17th

Add full screening process to simulation

Acel

Thursday, March
17th

Support Acel on Screening process

Daniel

Support Acel on station blueprint

Kashawn

Canada
How this station is
informative, and how it could
be more informative

How this station seems like an

accurate depiction, & how it
could be more accurate

How this station is

fun/engaging, and how it
could be more fun/engaging

Include the entire

screening process (which
starts before refugees
arrive in Canada).

Costumes

Decide whether people are

arriving in Ottawa or
Toronto

Developing individual
personalities for each
character

Screen Process -

Canada will work with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to identify people
in Jordan and Lebanon, where they have an extensive list of registered refugees.
UNHCR will be contacting them by SMS (text message) to determine if they are
interested in being resettled to Canada.
Canada is implementing a similar process in Turkey, where refugees are registered with
the state and not the UNHCR.
The refugees interested will be scheduled for processing in dedicated visa offices in
Amman and Beirut. Visa processing capacity will also be enhanced in Turkey.