Alli Fyfe Biography

Did you know that according to the Un refugee Agency’s annual Global Trends study found that 65.6 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide at the end of 2016- a total bigger than the population of the united kingdom and about 300,000 more than last year. ? Its tragic that this is true but this is what the world has came to.In the text Going to School as a Refugee the main issue for SB was he couldn't speak the language so he was always lost in school and always made fun of for being different than everyone else. Every refugee struggles with this problem because they flee their country to different one with a different language. When war comes to their village some of their family members die because if they dont agree with whats going on the communists or the army will kill them and move on. Since they don't know how to speak the language they can't make friends so they are always lonely, the only people they can talk to is other refugees that speak their language or their family. In the book Inside out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai the main character is a 10 year old girl named Ha. Since the war came to her village she had to put her childhood aside and be a grownup. She couldn't be picky because the she got were very limited because she wasn't rich her dad was captured and never came home. Like Ha, refugees are turned “inside out” when the war is coming to their village which means they have to flee their country and it means that they have to restart their

Though they begin as scared kids and wish to be invisible, the characters in “Refugee” must become more mature to protect their families by Stepping up when times are hard and difficult to accomplish what they needed to accomplish

Part of being an effective community advocate and a leader was listening to the needs of the population I was serving and providing them with the resources necessary to facilitate the transition into a new country and life. I dedicated time to interview each unaccompanied minor in order to learn about their reasons for migration, most included stories of violence, war, and abuse. The stories I recorded and the research I conducted into each child’s case was used to determine eligibility for services and legal representation. In addition, after becoming aware of the difficulty many of these children experienced in learning English at their new schools, I took the initiative to lead weekly English classes for recently arrived

Many refugees have a hard time adjusting to their new culture because they are not accepted by their peers and community. First of all, in the article “Children of War”, the author states, “Sometimes I wished I’d stayed there, watching the war, rather than being here, safe, but without

For the podcast, I interviewed Lina Abdulnoor, with the intention of exploring the intricacies of refugeehood by analyzing Lina’s refugee experience. Lina lived in Iraq with her family until they began receiving death threats due to their religious beliefs. Convinced that they needed to flee the country to survive, they left Iraq as refugees. After leaving Iraq, they settled in Jordan, where they waited two years until the U.N. to approve their request to move to the U.S. in 2012. Lina and her family initially settled in Virginia, where she experienced culture shock as she adapted to American culture and the English language. However, Lina did not feel accepted in Virginia; her experiences in the state led her to think that Americans treated her according to negative stereotypes of Iraqis. After living in Virginia for several months, Lina and her family chose to resettle in San Diego, California, which harbored a larger Iraqi population than Virginia did. Supported by San Diego’s Iraqi community and various refugee organizations, Lina flourished, and she currently studies at UCSD while holding a stable job.

As each pair of sneakers, sandals, and boots passes through my hands, I think about the story of the man, woman, and child who will receive them. I think about the tattered shoes they have walked in for demanding miles, and the places they will go with these donated shoes. I think about the chaos they flee and their trust in the future. Each refugee is unique in experience, religion, home, and history; yet, all leave everything behind with the goal of achieving a better life.

Sharon and Lena are staff members of Helping Hands, an interfaith agency apart of Inter-Faith Community Ministries and located in Rochester, New York. The agency offers several services to include a refugee resettlement program. Lena, who is ethnically Albanian, serves multiple roles within the agency because of her language skills and experiences as a Kosovan refugee. Sharon, Lena’s supervisor, has been placed in a difficult position because of the complaints she’s received from her Serbian clients and other caseworkers in relation to a poster in Lena’s office depicting a photograph of Kosovo.

Hacking, Lindgren and Strasser’s views can all be related to how social construction affects the internal and external reactions of individual beings. In Hacking’s article, he touches upon the social construction of women refugees, it should be noted that he does not believe that women refugees are socially constructed as individuals, but it is rather women refugees as a type of person, the classification itself, and the matrix in which the classification works that is socially constructed. The classification of a woman refugee is important as it allows her to stay in a country such as Canada, whereas if she is not classified as such, she may be deported or go into hiding. These women and their experiences are changed as a result of this social

Most are children, but less than half have access to education.” Because of this, their mission is to “to prevent a lost generation by giving refugee children the education they need to build a better future.”

The panic in the little girl’s eyes as she beat and pursed her lips to stop herself from crying has instigated an outpouring emotion about the “heart-breaking” image displaying how “humanity failed” in the refugee crisis.

Created a parent task force with refugee parents who have been in the US for a few years – they are serving as a “voice” for the refugee community;

Continuing from the first paragraph, British treating them this way has made the Burmese feel pain, struggling over British government. Burmans were treated like animals, as George Orwell quotes “The wrenched prisoners huddling in the stinking cages of the lockups, the gray, cowed

“Please, if you know of anyone who is willing to help, even if it’s a long shot, tell them about us. If they can’t take us on, just let them at least take my daughter’s case. I don’t matter, but she does,” begged the young man. By then, Rose has a good understanding of what was going on. These two people were refugees who came into this country from Syria with hope that they could avoid persecution in their home country. Rose had an instant desire to help these people. This man was willing to give himself up in order for his daughter to have a better life in America. Stepping out from behind the counter, she walks straight up to her uncle and the two refugees.

The issue I have chosen to write about is the Syrian refugee crisis. I believe this is a pertinent topic of discussion because it is an ongoing issue that is quintessential of conflicts witnessed previously, and unfortunately is likely to be representative of many conflicts to come. This is a morally loaded situation because evaluating what actions are warranted, and even required, is the subject of moral judgements by both nations and individuals. In this essay I shall first offer a descriptive exposition of the apathetic attitude that exists towards aiding refugees, as well as the justifications for such an attitude. I shall examine how this positions can be better understood using moral foundation theory, and how it can be explained by psychological processes such as psycophysical numbing, social identity theory, system one processing and the identifiable victim effect.

That night, after dinner, I climbed up the stairs into the attic, and researched about the Rohingya Muslims. Under the luminescent light of the moon, I found millions of articles and dozens of websites that only showed a limited amount of information about the them. An adoption website caught my attention, most of the site was written in Burmese, but a picture on the corner of the page showed a little girl, about my age, holding a faded blue blanket and a bundle of clothes. Her shrouded face caked with mud, showing harrowing tales of persecution and murder, was further supported with her scratched and scarred feet. I read the description:“ My name is Amreen Rehan. I am 11 years old and have lost my entire family.” Tears swelled in my