Abstract
Students of migration are often surprised to learn that migration is not directly mentioned in any of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN). Given how comprehensive the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is, that absence is indeed remarkable. Yet, migration does play a role in achieving the SDGs. Migration is mentioned in a few SDG targets, and it features in several indicators. Moreover, there are multiple indirect linkages between migration and sustainable development. This paper aims to describe the development of a pedagogical tool and an assignment that were designed to support higher education learning about the interrelations between migration and SDGs. The assignment’s two learning outcomes are: identifying the SDG targets and indicators that explicitly state migration-related issues; and understanding the cross-cutting connections between migration and the SDGs. By describing the practical steps of the assignment, the paper offers insightful guidance for instructors to adapt it for their courses. The tool was used by 63 undergraduate students from various disciplinary backgrounds in the course “Migration, Cities, Climate” between Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 at The New School. After using the tool, students showed increased awareness of the SDG; critically identified gaps in the goals; demonstrated knowledge of how migration is directly connected with some targets; and understood how migration can be indirectly connected with virtually all SDGs.
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Officially presented as Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, it was adopted in Resolution A/RES/70/1 by the United Nations General Assembly on 25 September 2015.
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Themes and corresponding targets include Poverty and Growth (1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.A, 1B, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 10.1); Social Protection (1.3, 5.4, 10.4); Health (3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.7, 3.8, 3.B, 3.C 3.D, 5.6, 8.7, 8.8, 10.7, 10.C); Education (4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 10.7, 10.C); Gender (5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.A, 5.C); Children (1.2, 4.2, 4.5, 4.A, 5.1, 5.2, 8.7, 10.7, 16.2, 16.3); Cities (11.1, 11.3, 11.B, 11.C); Climate Change (1.5, 10.7, 11.5, 13.1, 13.3); Citizenship, Rule of Law, and Inclusion (10.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.7, 16.9, 16.B); Diaspora and Partnerships for Investment (8.9, 9.2, 12.B, 17.3, 17.5, 17.13, 17.16, 17.17, 17.18).
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For an account of how migration was not included in the MDG framework, see Appave and Sinha 2017:ix–x.
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The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was adopted by the UN Resolution A/RES/73/195 on January 11, 2019.
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de Toledo Piza, D. (2023). Mapping Migration in the SDGs: A Pedagogical Tool of Sustainability Learning for Students of Migration. In: Leal Filho, W., Lange Salvia, A., Pallant, E., Choate, B., Pearce, K. (eds) Educating the Sustainability Leaders of the Future. World Sustainability Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22856-8_2
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