Mcdonald-Gibson Cast Away

In Europe, Islamophobia emerged together with new anti-Semitism, where the targets are the new immigrants, Muslims, as well as Jews. The reason for that is in France and United Kingdom, Muslims and Jews for the past decade inhabit the poorest neighborhoods. Media, on the other hand, portrays this as an incapability of Muslim immigrants to integrate into European society and susceptibility to the imported Islamist ideologies (Silverstein, 367).

The documentary, “Go Back to Where You Came From” plunges six Australians participants into the intense fear and desperate situations that forces them to confront their attitudes towards the refugee seeking experience. In such a powerful social experiment, using the “Survivor” and “Big Brother” modes of reality television, powerful emotions erupt. The documentary mixes “real life” with constructed situations to produce emotional breaking points around an audience’s attitudes, especially in the heartfelt interactions with refugee families thus privileging immigrants. An audience experience the “borderline” minds’ of the participants and the unstable world of refugees for themselves. They get caught up in the turbulent emotions and crises that are inflicted by the documentary through the clever use of evidence, rhetorical questions, inclusive language and sensationalism. The author rebuts the prevailing misrepresentation of immigrants as freeloaders by providing living testimonies of so called once, “boat people” now living in Australia who are not only grateful but are willing to relinquish all they have for Australia’s sake because of the act of benevolence Australia has showed to them and their families. This is evident in the following quotes of Andrew, “They came here to be more effective in the society…. Amar without a doubt is the kind of refugee we want” and in Amar’s quotes, “If they want to go fight, to protect Australia, I will go……Australia gives us a lot, so easy

Commentary 1: Refugees areal deadly facing an awful life and a tough screening process, but even after it is all over their lives will still be far worse than ours. They will be disrespected and have trouble socially fitting into this new

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 .

Every individual will undergo many journeys throughout their lifetime - without journeys, they would be limited in experience and knowledge, and this is highlighted in many examples of media and literature. The nature of journeys also have an impact on the individual; the journey may be harsh, stressful or confusing. Anh Do’s The Happiest Refugee (2010) and Peter Skrzynecki's Migrant Hostel (1975) are two texts that convey the transformative, unstable, segregative and communicative nature of journeys.

In the final draft I will expand on each of the issues, by looking into more specific examples of both what different European countries are doing policy wise, as well as what the sentiment is among the refugees in the different areas of Europe. To fully be able to understand the conditions the refugees are facing I will be using other scholars ethnography work; One of those works being Katerina Rozakou’s piece regarding the management of refugees in Greece. As a result of that knowledge I will be able to come to an accurate conclusion as to what course of action should be taken in Europe as a whole, to deal with this ongoing

What might it mean then, to be a refugee not from another country, but in one’s very homeland?” (45).

For migrants from post-World War II Eastern Europe, challenges arose from isolation, scarred memories, fear of society’s marginalisation because of their differences and the migrant’s attitude.

Europe has seen a great number of varying ideologies from 1815-2015. The age of “isms” greatly shaped the country of Europe and also led to the rise of beliefs that were controversial and led to the world wars. Although both nationalism and integration have played a monumental part in the development of Europe, in the future nationalistic views will overrun the few who believe that the best future lies in integration.

ERPs, even before this most recent rise in anti-foreign sentiments, were as culturally homogenous groups and proponents of anti-immigration (Greven). While this anti-immigration sentiment was not previously directed at any one group, a perceived threat began in 2001, with the terrorist attacks in New York, and only intensified in Europe with the Charlie Hebdo attack in France and the attacks across Europe since then (SETA). Given the political flexibility of not being coalition oriented, ERPs were easily able to absorb this Islamophobia sentiment into their platforms, highlighting the dangers of immigration they had touted all along. As they were not majorities in governments, they were able to point to centrist parties, those in power, as being weak and blamed them for the violence (Greven).

Tim Arango, reporter for The New York Times, wrote a very informative piece entitled, Disappointed with Europe, thousands of Iraqi migrants return home. The article address the issue of migrants from of the Middle East, after having risk their lives, in search of a safe heaven and greater opportunities that was perceived to be found in Europe, Arango refers to it as, ‘the great migrant wave’. To add further detail, the article introduced two men, Mr. Jabiry, 23 and Abdulatif, 48, from Iraq who give a 1st hand account of their experience in a foreign country. Both men where under the impression that Europe would be their promise land but quickly realize life in Europe

The French constitution promises to provide safety and protection to foreigners who were banished from their countries or who are seeking freedom. Of course, France’s government has held this promise by welcoming foreigners from many countries in recent decades. However, in the past few years, many things have changed and being of Europe’s biggest nations to accept those seeking refuge, France has proved to be one of the most unwilling. Out of approximately 4 million people who left Syria, only 7,000 (0.175%) have been given refugee status in France. According to an opinion poll, 56% of the French public is against authorities accepting more refugees. But some Parisians living near makeshift migrant camps urge France to do more. Imen, a 25-year-old

Giry starts off the subject matter by claiming that violent attacks carried out by radical Islamists or “jihadists”, such as terrorist bombings of London’s subway or the murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo von Gogh, have been taken as primary evidence that European immigration and integration policies have failed. She has rendered this diagnosis as flawed since it overlooks the fact that the majority of Muslims in Europe have nothing to do with radical Islamism and are struggling to fit in.

The Roma people, a peripatetic and indigenously Indo-European ethnic group, are one of the European continent’s largest and most systematically stigmatized minorities. EU member countries and officials have repressed their culture for centuries and insulated migrants into failing schools, communal city tenements, and disproportionate housing restrictions. The pervading anti-Roma rhetoric in Europe has gone so far as to elicit violence; leading to an unprecedented spike in ethnically motivated hate crimes perpetrated by paramilitary extremist groups as well as the general public. France reinforced its pervading racial bias in 2010 after ordering the forced deportation and expulsion of its expanding Roma population, resulting in the

In a presentation by Hans Jörg Neumann a case is made that with the current global conflicts, creating an influx of refugees and migrants, countries like Germany are shouldering an unfair burden which could potentially lead to social and political turmoil. For decades Germany has taken a less pivotal role on the world stage as a consequence they are now taking the charge with attempting to solve the world’s problems. With this new leadership role, the number of people coming into Germany may be unsustainable. The crisis has reached a stage where a number of other European countries are closing their borders, consequently this severely limits the number of refugees they accept into their countries. On top of the crackdown being implemented by these countries human smuggling is becoming an increasing problem with illegal groups, risking the lives of refugees for money. The presentation offers a lot of information, but essentially provides little in the way of a solution, what makes this discussion work is it’s use of statistical data along with a clear appeal to logic or “Logos”. Hans Neumann’s argument is that with so many refugees migrating to Europe the burden of accommodating these refugees is being disproportionately placed on more generous countries like Germany causing the social services provided by these countries to take a toll.