Compare Letter To A Young Refugee From Another By Nicholas Gage

The Happiest Refugee written in 2011, is an award winning autobiography portraying ones will to survive amongst extreme hardships. Above all, the story displays resilience and optimism at their finest, despite the setbacks and adversities faced by Anh and his family. Readers as a result are invited to empathise with the hardships confronted by refugees, in turn enlightening them to be grateful for the many pleasures

The text chosen for this unit id the book Refuge by prominent Australian writer Jackie French (2013). Refuge follows the story of Faris, a young refugee feeling from his homeland with his grandmother to Australia. On the dangerous boat journey from Indonesia to Australia, they encounter a terrible storm where Faris falls unconscious and wakes up living his dream life in Australia. However, he has no recollection of how he got there. Whilst on the beach, he meets a strange group of children all from different times and places. Faris soon discovers that each child is like him, a migrant who travelled to Australia searching for a better place. Each child is living in their own ‘dream’ Australia and the beach provides a sort of ‘refuge’ from reality for them. Eventually, Faris has to make the decision to either continue living in this dream land or face his reality. This book is interesting as unlike other refugee texts, this novel serves to tell the multicultural history of Australian immigration. French relays the more than 60 000 year old history of people travelling to Australia by boat and makes the statement that all immigrants and refugees need to be treated with empathy and understanding.

In both of these articles they talk about refugees. Some families had adjusted a new life after all the bad things that happened to them. When the refugees were being sent away, they felt queasy about where they were going. All the refugees thought they were going to get a document and be U.S. citizens. But they weren't, they were being sent to internment camps. And had to live there.

This essay is about the universal refugee experience and the hardships that they have to go through on their journey. Ha from Inside Out and Back Again and other refugees from the article “Children of War” all struggle with the unsettling feeling of being inside out because they no longer own the things that mean the most to them. Ha and the other refugees all encounter similar curiosities of overcoming the finding of that back again peaceful consciousness in the “new world” that they are living in .

1. What is one story of a young migrant or refugee that you heard? Are there any way the story

From the novels “Under the Persimmon Tree” by Suzanne Fisher Staples, “Inside Out and Back Again” by Thanhha Lai and “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park, the refugee child have to deal with traumatizing events occurring during their journey. First, Najmah is a teenager living in Kunduz, Afghanistan who had to flee to Peshawar, Pakistan to find her brother and father, who have been taken by the Taliban, Salva is an 11 year old boy who had to flee from his village in South Sudan who has set out to find his family and Ha, a ten year old girl who had to flee her home because the Communist will take over Saigon. Secondly, all of the refugees have to flee their homes because of their country being at war; the Taliban, the Sudanese Civil war

As a first generation U.S citizen, I understand what America means to refugees. I I see it in my mother’s look of hopefulness for us, even after her long shifts at work, that leave her fingers cracked and bloody. It’s my grandmother’s late night calls, urging me to do well, and to succeed. It’s my uncle’s reminders to be grateful, for I have the education and opportunities he did not have. For many, America symbolizes hope and opportunity.

Some of these children immigrated to the United States for political or religious reasons, while others – like Ushab – were granted asylum so they could escape the refugee camps. Though they were only eight years old, these children have faced more change and tragedy than I hope to encounter in my entire lifetime. Each day that I spent with these kids, I was able to contribute something that improved their lives, and each day, they contributed something that improved mine.

To me, this quote, "We read to know we're not alone", has two meanings; that is we read to immerse ourselves in different universes and situations. We connect to other characters or experiences we never get in our universe. Another meaning is we read to feel the we, the reader, is not alone. For example, if I say "I hate my life", I read and find out that there are other people who have the same problem or in even worse situation than I am.

This article features many young boys from southern Sudan, their journey to Ethiopia, and then to the “Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya” (1), as stated in the article. This piece explains their journey and ultimately, or finally, to America, where they dealt with many challenges in adjusting to society. In addition, “Many of the Lost Boys resettled by the IRC also took part in IRC programs aimed at helping them cope with their traumatic past and easing their transition into such a different culture” (4). Many of them created a life for themselves in their new country and have fabricated their own legacy.

My first encounter with a refugee was when I was about 5, my parents ran this organization in South Africa called New Communities. People from all over the world would come and stay for a year, they would learn more about God, learn how to build connections in the missionary world, it was sort of like a missionary camp. This one year a girl from New Communities wanted to branch out and go to a black church for the year that she lived in South Africa and that is where she met Luc, Luc Kabango. He was a refugee from the Congo, working at this church doing simple task like cleaning the bathroom and making sure the church was taken care of.One day he was let go and had no money, no job, and no house. So the lady who became

Have you ever thought about what your life might be like in another country? Other countries might be just a few hours away on a plane but people there have a totally different way of living. Take Refugees, for instance, you probably don't realize how bad they have it. Well, get ready because I am going to tell you. How different can my live be from a refugee?

How would a person feel living in a country they had been forced to immigrant to that is not their own? Syrian refugees have been forced to flee their Syrian homeland as a result of their unstable environment. These refugees must leave quickly, leaving all their possessions in search of a better life in other European countries. One of the countries that has granted asylum to many Syrian refugees is Germany, but the story does not end there for thousands of refugees upon their arrival. The day to day survival is difficult in a new country for adult refugees trying to support their families. Most struggle, desperate to get the necessary training in Germany to ascertain a well paying job. However another, almost forgotten group of refugees are the thousands of children who also fled their homeland countries and are not able to obtain a basic education. These families risked their lives on the perilous journey to European countries, only to find, they do not have the basic needs to support themselves and their families. According to Lori Robertson’s article Stretching Facts on Syrian Refugees, she explains how “The majority of refugees — 51.1 percent — are under age 17, including 38.5 percent who are younger than 12 years old.”(Robertson). However, three million Syrian children do not attend school on regular basis. Although many refugees have survived the harsh conditions on their journey to Germany, there needs to be an increase in the number of refugee children being

Can you imagine having to seek sanctuary in another country? Fleeing the one and only place you call home out of simple fear, that you can’t practice your religion or because you belong in a particular social group. Well this is what refugees have to go through in order to feel safe and sound. Many people are forced into refugee center’s and they are forced to adapt into a new culture. Volunteering in a refugee center can help us recognize the importance of the refugee centers, comprehend refugee’s everyday struggles in a new country, and help us value our own country.

After the field trip to Carter & McCrae, on Thursday, November16th, I can say that my beliefs and understandings about children from a different cultural and/or ethnic minority group have changed significantly. Before the trip I had some basic understandings of the challenges that these groups face, but I never truly understood all of the obstacles that they have to overcome. Overcoming these obstacles will allow them to be successful in schools, which will better enable them to be successful in the future. Some of the different aspects that I found eye opening included the disadvantages that some of the groups faced, for example, lack of housing. Another obstacle that I found interesting was how much work it took to receive support in today’s society. Lastly, I was surprised by the challenge that people who have a refugee status often face. In this reflection of my trip I plan to explain how these major points surprised me the most.