How Should American Citizens Be Nice To Refugees?

America is the land of freedom and opportunity. It is a place where anyone can take refuge from harm and pursue their own dreams. However, the novel, The Refugees, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, portrays another perspective of being a refugee in the United States. The retelling of him becoming accustomed to America practices indicated that he faced an identity crisis. Specifically, he faces a contentious dilemma concerning how he would strike a balance between seeing himself as a person of Vietnamese heredity or of his American lifestyle. He amplifies the significance of this issue through the inquiry of certain practices of the community, his mixed views about fighting Communism, and his interactions with his family.

Thousands and thousands of refugees are risking their lives just to have a better life, and it’s OUR government that wants to keep them out, and forbid them from living the life they deserve. Help the U.S. let them into America, help let them into your life, and most importantly; help them realise that they have a purpose on this Earth too. Be their

And the United States themselves should be able to accept as much refugees as they can due to the fact that there are some Americans that would do anything to help refugees out. For example, I read a document from the Boston Globe, titled “An Outpouring of Support for Refugees” and basically talked about how Cheryl Hamilton from Lowell asked many people to help her out to support refugees arriving from Congo, Syria, Myanmar, and Iraq. Cheryl and others basically gathered a collection of kitchen supplies, winter coats, blankets, and much more, just to give them to the refugees that have arrived to a totally different place than what they were used to. And it also said: “Volunteers walked into the office and said, “I can’t stand watching the news anymore. How can I help?”” This shows that there are some Americans that have no problem with letting in refugees, and are willing to do anything for them, because it help seeing what type of conditions they were living in, as well as what is going on in their home countries. For example, there’s a photograph from Time which shows a young boy covered in blood, and says: “Footage shared online by the Aleppo Media Center is said to show a boy who was pulled from an airstrike on Aug. 17 in the Syrian city of Aleppo.” which I remember

The book begins by discussing the historical context of the war and time period in which refugees emerge into the scene. According to Tang, “the United States publicly positioned itself as the champion of displaced Cambodians, passing the 1980 Refugee Act and casting it as a global freedom project and Cambodian refugees as needing rescue by U.S. liberalism” (15). Throughout the book, Tang discusses how the United States contributes to the constant state of captivity that refugees experience from the minute they leave home to the moment they arrive in America. The United States’ participation in the Vietnam War gave rise to Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge; these conditions caused a lot of unrest and forced many people like Ra to flee or remain trapped in captivity under the Khmer Rouge. The United States’ perspective on their actions during the war do not acknowledge their contributions to the national refugee crisis. Refugees are viewed as a solution to the war in the American perspective; thus, Eric Tang introduces the concept of refugee exceptionalism: “the ideologies and discursive practices that figure refugees as necessarily in the hyperghetto but never of it” (14). Tang effectively outlines the subsequent chapters where they each address a certain way in which captivity is maintained for Ra and other refugees. In Chapter 3 that mentions the Welfare Resistance, Ra is shown to be

To further assist Vietnamese refugees, Congress passed an act in 1980 called the Refugee Act. It reduced restrictions on entry to the US and provided an official definition of a refugee. It also set the number of refugee admissions at 50,000 per year and allowed a refugee that stayed in the US for 1 year to become a permanent resident. Finally, after four years, the Act allowed refugees to become a United States citizen. On a side note, addition laws were passed that allowed children of American servicemen to enter the United States.

Regardless of what the United States government ultimately decides to do, it is important to stay open minded in drastic times like these. By attempting to remove the stereotype refugees have to carry around with them, assessing which countries we want to be associated with, and working to help those in need while keeping the security of American citizens in-tact-- America will be playing a very beneficial role in helping refugees acquire

Thirty years ago my parents lived in Thailand, a country of Southeast Asia at a refugee camp. The refugee camp was a small community of Hmong people that were in the process of either being sent back to Laos or be relocated in United States of America. The refugee camp came in place after the Vietnam War when Hmong people fled Laos to Thailand for safety. Thailand wanted to evacuate the growing population and established a refugee camp for the Hmong population for a temporary stay in the country. To quote from Working with Immigrant and Refugee Populations: Issues and Hmong Case Study, Margaret (Peg) Allen, Suzanne Matthew, and Mary Jo Boland stated, 'Thailand never welcomed the Hmong as permanent residents. In the 1990s the official United Nations refugee camps were closed, with the Hmong expected to return to Laos or emigrate to other countries' (Allen, Matthew, and Boland 5). United States of America came forward to accept the Hmong people in return for their involvement in the Vietnam War. Among the tragically moments in my parents’ life, my parents did not receive proper education, had to learn to survive and become an adult at a bearable age. When the opportunity came to migrate to America, my parents made the move to America for a better life and opportunity for their

I believe that the U.S should start admitting more refugees, mostly children that are being really affected by all the violence and Medical / Mental assistance .

Refugees are individuals that are being forced to flee from their country of citizenship to another in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. Western society tends to be judgmental towards people who do not look like their own and so it is very difficult for different cultures to be treated fairly. Recently, President Trump implemented a law that band Muslims, due to the stereotypically classifying them as terrorists. Muslims are being classified as others and treated very poorly due to their religious beliefs and instead, that should not be the case. In the media, Muslims are also portrayed poorly and they are seen as individuals coming to America to take over the country, when in fact they are just regular individuals seeking

Canada has always been known as a country that is both multicultural and compassionate to immigrants and refugees alike. When it comes to the programs that Canada has for refugees, there are two main parts to it; The In-Canada Asylum Program is for those who make a claim for protection within Canada, while the Refugee and Humanitarian Program is for people who are seeking protection outside of Canada. All of the resettlement programs within Canada are designed to provide stability and save the lies of those fleeing persecution from their home countries. The programs themselves are respected on an international level because of the fact that a long term solution has been provided for a permanent solution to refugees (Government of Canada, 2015, p.1).

In 1944, former president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order forming the War Refugee Board. As briefly explained by ushmm.org, “the Board is responsible for devising and carrying out programs for the rescue and relief of victims of Nazi persecution.” During World War II, the United States help settle refugees who couldn’t be in their own country because of the war. This was a great thing to do and shaped the future we live in today. Letting Jewish refugees into the United States “was a turning point in American immigration policy and established a precedent for later refugee crises,” according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.What is happening today with refugees is no different than what happened in the past. The Washington Post uploaded an article January of this year stating “If the order is enacted, among those immediately affected would be potential immigrants and visitors from seven

A refugee is someone who has been forced to flee their country due to persecution, war or violence. They are placed in different countries around the world to find refuge which means they will be safe and stable in a refugee camp. Refugees go through a rough time trying to get into the U.S. due to the U.S.’s current policy of admitting refugees. In the article “The U.S. admissions process” states that the screening process takes 18 to 24 months to approve of one refugee and if a refugee is approved for resettlement in the U.S. then they can enter the U.S. and get help , but if they don’t then they’ll be back in their country (U.S. Committee For Refugees And Immigrants).

What would it be like to have to flee America? What if everything that made America a good place to live suddenly was thrown into upheaval? Americans enjoy a certain lifestyle that many around the world do not have the opportunity to enjoy. Is this because Americans protect that lifestyle at any cost, or have Americans become too comfortable to remember how hard life really can be. With one of the largest refugee crisis happening in the world today, Americans have to face a critical decision. Should America take the risk of letting refugees into the country to help humanity.

Though President Ronald McDonald may like to think that Fast Food Land (FFL) is “the most perfect of societies,” it is clear from the “cultural and religious strife” that he describes that this not the case. Indeed, FFL may be in need of more than just “minor reforms.”. The answer to what steps should be taken in order to remedy the situation in FFL lies in an examination of the following questions: How should society treat and accommodate immigrants as opposed to indigenous national minorities? What sort of legal accommodations should be made for immigrants? Is FFL’s current model for addressing diversity desirable? And, what ramifications will the departure from FFL’s current diversity model have on mediating intergroup conflict?

The issue of refugees has a long history from a lot of countries around the world starting back in 1940s. Some people are either fleeing from their country that is at war or natural disaster or is a countries that are letting refugees into their own country and don't know when it is the time to say no to any more refugees that are trying to come into their countries. Imagine if all of the countries just gave up on helping the refugees and thousand by thousand they all start to die, just because we would not let them come to a safe place to life. How would you feel if all that was on the news was them saying thousand by thousand refugees are dies because countries are not letting them in. So I think that the U.S should let refugees into the U.S because they have been letting them in for over 200 years and why should they stop now, the U.S could be saving the lives of the people in the countries that are in need, and the U.S is a big super power in the world and other countries could benefit off of them and then go out and help other countries.