Nevertheless, if dealt appropriately, the topic can be introduced even with children through games or comics. Should this become a serious issue, I would contact a NGO to help me/us deal with it. 

I have always thought that migrants have their own identity and our students must not judge before knowing them and their stories. So I found the idea of five pillars really interesting and useful to use in the classroom. Luckily there is no Xenophobia in my classroom. As matter of fact I try to explain the cultural differences as an enrichment for all my students and as a possibility to know traditions and habits of other countries. My students, through a daily brainstorming about the tolerance, the respect and the equality  among people are managing to understand the feelings of migrants when they are forced to abandon their homes.

1. the very high increase in human migrations throughout the world 

2. the progressive implantation of an individualistic, selfish and competitive ideology.

Well, after showing that cooperation is the most characteristic feature of the human species, I propose the implementation in the classroom  techniques of cooperative learning as the best and most effective instrument to combat, from the school itself, both racism and Xenophobia such as school violence.

 They are “the vulnerable ones”.

There is this word in Italian: profughi, from latin pro-fugio, I flee from. We are familiar with this word. Our parents were profughi during WWII. They lived in caves up in the mountains. Profugo means a person who flees. Who has fled his own country. Who has to flee. Regardless of the reasons.

Great ideas, Erika. We - I and my students - like collective padlets because each one can express and share ideas in the format he likes. A song, a text, a photo, a video, a link, a reference to a book, a citation usw. We can project a padlet on a wall at school and discuss our ideas. We can watch our padlet on phone. It's a powerful identity building tool, too.

So: we'll do a padlet about the experience of leaving.

And we'll write two individual text:

a) imagine yourself fleeing; the reasons why you fled; what you put in a small bag; what you leave behind you forever;

b) imagine to be a profugo; describe your journey and your feelings; the days and the nights; the weather; the personal conditions; hopes and perspectives.

Something like this.

And yes: as I wrote, we're having problems with xenophobia. “My father lost his job. They're are stealing our works”.

We need to confront ourselves with rude facts.