Eric Tang’s “Unsettled”, shows that Cambodian refugees being treated unfairly and put in the hyper ghetto is an important literature that shows that the resettlement in the camps was not the solution for a better living standard. This is the denial of human rights against Cambodians in the US or is not that different from the Khmer Rouge. In this paper, I will argue about there are not that much difference in treatment inside the settlement camp and the Khmer Rouge. First, the reason that Cambodians came to the US is protection.…
Summer Smith Ms.T English 2 4/24/24 Funny in Farsi Essay Firoozeh Dumas was born in Abadan, Iran in 1972, When she was 7 years old, she moved to Southern California with her family. Growing up as an immigrant in the United States came with many challenges such as language barriers, cultural differences, racism, and finding a sense of belonging as well as finding ones identity all while being “different”. This book gave Firoozeh the opportunity to tell her story of what it was like growing up as an immigrant, as well as to shed some light on how she learned to adapt and grow with the situations she was met with. When Firoozeh first moved to the U.S, getting an education was hard due to the language barriers between her and her classmates as well as discrimination they had against…
A critique of “Understanding the “Boat People,” by Nooria Moray who was once a refugee and; She is clinician by professional and currently holding a senior clinical position at the Sydney Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors. The author has work experience in working with refugees in the Australia and overseas. The article addressed the misconceptions of the ‘boat people’ by some Australian political leaders and local citizens. The issue of the ‘boat people’ has been going on over decades in Australian history since 1970s . It has been the political battle ground in the Australian politics.…
When I say that I’m a Muslim, they don’t react like, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be your friend because you’re Muslim.’ Some people here don’t even know where Bosnia is, but they’re really nice and try to help. Things are getting better because we could go to school” (Brice 26). This connects to the universal refugee experience and Ha because all refugees face the trauma of war, but in the end, most of them are able to heal after adjusting to the way of life in the host country. Both Ha and Amela are able to do so.…
In the book, City of Thorns: nine lives in the world’s largest refugee camp, by Ben Rawlance, the stories of the lives of nine refugees present the struggles and frustrations of the tangled lives in a refugee camp with on-going conflict. There is a lot of different issues occurring throughout their experiences in the camps, some very horrific and life threatening to these individuals. Although the book focus more on the men in the camps, the experiences the women goes through demonstrate that there is a global health issue with maternal and child health care services. These experiences are shaped by the situation of being a refugee and living in a conflict zone and they outline the type of intervention they find most important and appealing.…
The goal of researcher to study the Lost Boys of the Sudan is to examine the function and behavioral health of the Sudan refuges 1 year after their arrival to the United States. They are trying to determine how well this group of children handled the losses that they experienced in childhood. The small children were forced out of their villages and trek hundreds of miles to refugee camps, within those camps they lived in groups with substandard living conditions. A group of Sudanese refugees were brought to the United States in 2000-2001. Researchers developed a system to survey this group and determine what factors made them reliant or are they resilient.…
(AGG) In life and the book “Under the Persimmon Tree, by Suzanne Staples” refugees are known for having a very tough life filled with pain, suffering and bad experiences. (BS-1) Najmah, as well as real world refugees have horrible experiences no matter what the age. (BS-2) They may see things such as their family or friends being killed, houses being blown up, people being blown up, almost anything bad you can think of happening in the Middle East, refugees most likely have experienced. (BS-3)…
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai tells the story of a 10 year old girl name Kim Hà who was forced to seek asylum in America with her family due to the Vietnam War in the form of free verse poems. Hà holds onto a stand of hope as her country is torn into two. Although she continuously wishes that the war will end, she understands the danger her and her family in. For this reason, her mother makes the decision to flee from their home in Vietnam to America to find asylum and the family struggles to deal with the sudden change in her life. Like the title, Hà’s life is turned inside out, but she manages to find her home again.…
Inside Out and Back Again, provides an example of the universal experience of refugees. In Ha’s story, these challenges are shown. Ha is a 10-year-old girl who loves her mother and papaya tree more than anything. A rebellious girl who can be a little foolish at sometimes, and even selfish. Refugees from all around the world have their lives turned…
Life of a Refugee: Inside Out and Back Again When we imagine war, we think of massive loss of life, but what happens to those who aren’t killed? Ripped from their homes, refugees flee to other countries to find a drop of hope for a better future. Their lives are flipped upside-down because of cultural factors, shock, discrimination and racism, and confusion. In the novel, Inside Out and back Again by Thanhha Lai, readers learn about the struggles of young refugees by walking in a young girl’s…
“It was the last time I would see them for 14 years.” Uong, who is a Vietnamese refugee, fled his home at the age of 10—being separated from his family for 14 years (Uong 2). Being a refugee is rough as it requires one to leave his home country and to start a new life in a completely different world. According to Yen Le Espiritu, a "refugee" is described as a person who harbors "a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion" (Espiritu 209). There are many variations of refugee groups since countless minority groups have left their homeland due to reasons such as persecution.…
The social construction of ‘boat people’ who arrive in Australia is affected by a tripartite process involving the press, government policy and the Australian population. The media represents the refugee experience through manipulated facts to engender certain responses from its audience. Headlines such as Unstoppable flow of asylum seekers and Navy on high alert as armada threatens use words such as “swelled”, “unlawfully” and “fake” to incite a negative association with refugees. Piers Akerman, reporter of Powerless to stop an invasion of boat people uses “them” and “we” to create a metaphysical distance between refugees and the Australian population.…
Persian Girls is the biography of a writer who lived in a country where women have been facing discrimination and oppression since the past many decades. The memoir identifies the life of an ordinary Iranian girl who is not willing to conform to the stereotypical norms of the society and her family. The girl wanted to pursue her career in writing and achieve success. The literary work is an effort to highlight the problems faced by women in Muslim World that do not give them the freedom to live a successful life and pursue a career in the field of arts. The story also reveals the importance of determination and fortitude to achieve goals.…
The Happiest Refugee is a memoir of hope and challenge. Anh and his families’ lives have greatly changed by the impact of the Vietnam War causing them to flee their homes and communities as refuges in the desperation of seeking out a better life for themselves as well as their families. When Anh was a small child, his family gambled everything in their desire to escape the crippling poverty in Vietnam on a barely seaworthy boat crowded with 40 others. “I look across the water and am mesmerised by the beauty of this magnificent setting. My parents set off on a boat trip many years ago to provide their children and grandchildren a better life.…
Countries have a moral obligation to protect the human rights of refugees. Refugees are people who have been forced from their countries within reasons varying from political unrest, persecution, and war; refugees are people who have been stripped of their human rights. To live in such dreadful environments is a direct violation of Article Three from The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “the right to life, liberty and security” as well as Article Twenty-two, which is “the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation” (The United Nations 1948). Take for example the story of Yusra Mardini, a refugee: somewhere along the coast of Greece and Turkey, twenty people are crowded on a tattered boat, trying to reach asylum across the Mediterranean Sea. All the sudden, the motor begins to quiet.…