ABSTRACT
One key educational task is helping pupils and students to locate themselves. In their state, in their global or geo-political region, in the world. Racism and nationalism thrive on the division of the world, at whatever level, into the simple binary grouping of 'them' and 'us', 'our side' and 'their side', insiders and outsiders, ourselves and others, the civilised and the barbarians: all of these categories have the potential to justify the use of state approved violence. Migration has always been a problem for European states, which is why it is rarely studied in depth in schools. All of the inhabitants of Europe are migrants or are of migrant/refugee descent if one goes back far enough in time. Charles Booth's socio-economic maps of London, with different streets in different colours, from black where what he called the criminal classes lived to the gold of the wealthy, still have a value today.
