Migrant Hostel Speech

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.

Good Afternoon teachers and students, The following texts express how an individuals understanding of belonging can quickly be changed by the people and place around them. “Jasper Jones a novel written by Craig Silvey”, it is a short story of a boy named Charles Butkins and the events that occurred because he helped Jasper Jones mask the death of Laura Wishart. “Australia by Ania Walwicz”, is attacking the people of Australia in the form of a poem, because of their point of views and attitudes in life. She also hates Australia itself because the people are not welcoming, this is the main point of this poem.

People’s perceptions of belonging can change over time, but this isn’t the case for all. When people experience moments of crisis in their lives they sometimes force a change within themselves and that is what helps them find an individual sense of belonging. This is highlighted in many texts and even composers life works. Texts that support this statement include Peter Skrzynecki’s Immigrant Chronicle poems, of which I have chosen St Patricks College and Feliks Skrzynecki. Skrzynecki’s poetry expresses the difficulties he faces when change doesn’t occur throughout time, as time alone isn’t a factor and that your sense of belonging is something that comes from within, with or without anyone.

‘An individual’s interaction with others and the world around them can enrich or limit their experience of belonging.’

A common human characteristic is the yearning to feel a sense of belonging through connections and different forms of relationships made in life. A sense of belonging or not belonging can emerge from feeling connected to people and places, whether they have been freely cast there or not. An individual will only feel a true sense of belonging through the understanding of those connections, which are created by experiences and can only come within.

People have the longing to belong and to be accepted by a group or community. A sense of Belonging can emerge from the connections and acceptance we have with other people, communities and the larger world. These ideas of belonging are represented in texts which explore aspects of belonging and an individual’s potential to challenge or improve a community group. The film ‘Strictly Ballroom,’ directed by Baz Lurhman, the film ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ directed by Kate Woods and the exaggerated true story of an African American youth’s fight to belong in the song “dance with the devil” by immortal technique all represent ideas of belonging formed by life experiences.

Possessing different physical attributes and cultural customs to the majority can make it difficult to feel like one belongs to a certain group. Groups are formed on opinion and common interests, not feeling like a person shares any of these things with another can make a person feel like an outsider especially a migrant.

Hello,this is my presentation for the Area of Study Belonging. The related text I will be using is a short film called An Imaginary Life by Steve Baker. In this presentation I have to relate the text to the quote stated by William Glasser ‘ We are all driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom and fun’. I then have to outline the aspects of belonging that relate to my text and explain how this is represented in the text using film techniques and dialogue. At the end I have to evaluate if this text is as a choice of the Area of Study which is Belonging.

As animals, we have an affinity towards that which feels safe. For many, that which feels safe also happens to be that which is familiar. Needless to say, people are most comfortable around those people who they perceive to have had shared experiences. It is for this reason that human's aversion for those outside of their social milieu is so instinctual. When encountering a new person, their most fundamental characteristic-that which most largely influences the type of person they are-is their ethnic background.

Belonging is a complex, multi-faceted concept encompassing a wide range of different aspects. The need to belong to family and culture is a universal human need which provides a sense of value and emotional stability, and in many respects forges one’s identity. Alienation and disconnection often creates feelings of isolation, depression and loss of identity. A struggle with cultural identity is evident in Peter Skrzynecki’s poems ‘Migrant Hostel’ and ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’, where he examines a division between his pre-war Polish heritage and his newfound Australian way of life. The movement away from his European cultural heritage towards a more Australian identity created disorientation for Skrzynecki, and these feelings of disconnection

An individual’s sense of belonging is determined not only by their own choices but also by the attitudes of others.

Within this world, there will always be conflicts. There will always be persecutions and there will always be discrimination, based on race, religion or gender. In these instances, there will inevitably be innocent people affected. People that must, out of fear, leave behind the places they love, the possessions they own and the people they know, all to be safe. Around the world today, there are almost 900,000 asylum seekers, all fleeing from their home country, in search for a better life. What exactly do we mean by an asylum seeker? The term asylum seeker refers to a human being seeking refuge from hardship or persecution. So if Australia is the ‘land of fair go’ why are we so narrow-minded when it comes to the issue of asylum seekers?

For many students and teachers schools can be ostracizing places. Schools can contain social hierarchies which can marginalise people to the point where they can drop out of school all together. These places are not conducive to an education environment which leads creating well rounded, empathetic and supportive setting in which students can flourish. To counteract this commonplace theme in schools a culture of belonging can be created. To me a culture of belonging is when an education environment has been created that contains encouragement, a sense of fitting to a group, and where people feel comfortable as themselves. A culture of belonging is hard to establish in environments which contain elements which hinder or restrict its growth. It is not easy to instil when the opposite is apparent in the school.

‘Migrant hostel’ explores the separation and isolation of the migrants from the rest of the populations even though they were invited into Australia. Because of the separation from their country they feel isolated and alienated from their new country Australia. ‘To pass in and out of lives’ shows that the promise of new life of

Thousands of illegal immigrants come into the U.S. yearly. Although people still think that the borders should be open to everyone. So they think it should be open to the murders and rapist. People shouldn't be getting in the us illegally. We should know how many immigrants are come to the us year, how many get deported, and how much immigration increased.