Nuer Refugees from Sudan

Take the Lee Family, for example. The Lee family arrived in the United States on December 18th in 1980. They left their country seeking political asylum and ended up in the U.S. They experiences first hand how different life

When relocating to a new country, a refugee must get used to a new culture while suppressing their own. Not to mention, they have to live knowing that they left their family and friends behind in a dangerous environment. They are stuck with the burden of not knowing whether or not their relatives are still alive. Having to live day after day with these weights on your shoulder would be a detriment to anyone’s emotional health. In the documentary, God Grew Tired of Us, John Dau, a Syrian refugee came to America where he was able to live in an apartment, get a job, and receive an education. He went from living outdoors with no idea of what tomorrow will bring, to living in an air conditioned apartment with a chance to build a future, yet Dau still wasn’t happy. He found himself missing his homeland and the friends and family he had left behind. Refugees face a multitude of emotional stress when starting their new lives, everything has changed for them and sometimes it can be too much to handle. Knowing they left vulnerable loved ones behind, while they get to start anew can make it hard to enjoy their chance at happiness. Along with the distress that comes with being on your own, the different customs and societal values can be difficult on a refugee. They may need to abandon old traditions or even hide a part of their identity that wouldn’t be seen as “normal” in their new location. A constant sense of loneliness along with living in a new area where you don’t quite fit in can be emotionally stressful for

Transitioning from the Democratic Republic Of Congo to the United States was a challenge that my family and I had to overcome. The main reason why we moved was because my father wanted a better life for my siblings and me. My father did not make enough money to pay for our education, food, housing, and other things. With the little money that he did make, he would give some to my mom so she could buy clothes and sell them in order to put food on the table. More often than not my mom was unable to sell anything so, we would go to my uncle's house to see if he could provide us with at least rice to eat with sugar. In my family's eyes, at least, the rice was better than not eating at all. One day, my father's friend called him and told him that there was a lottery game people were playing and if you won, you would be given the chance to go to the United States. My dad was the only one from my family who was allowed to play and after eight months had passed we were informed that we won! We were all so happy and ready to start a new life in America! The new excitement about moving to a better

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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.

Who are the Nubians? Nubians are people of northern Sudan and southern Egypt. Their history and traditions can be traced to the dawn of civilization. They settled first along the banks of the Nile from Aswan. Along the Nile, they developed one of the oldest and greatest civilizations in Africa until they lost their last kingdom five centuries ago. The Nubians remained as the main rivals to the homeland of Africa’s earliest black culture with a history that can be traced from 3800 B.C. onward through the monuments and artifacts. Ancient Nubia was a land of great natural wealth, gold mines, ebony, ivory and incense that its neighbors always prized. Sudan had

Luma Mufleh, a Jordanian refugee explains the feeling that she and many other immigrants feel directly after moving to the United States. “It's kind of hard to believe that you belong when you don't have a home, when your country of origin rejects you because of fear or persecution, or the city that you grew up in is completely destroyed. I didn't feel like I had a home. I was no longer a Jordanian citizen, but I wasn't American, either” (Don't Feel Sorry for Refugees - Believe in Them). Like many other refugees, she got stuck in between her new and old life, not feeling like she belongs anywhere. The loneliness that many experience is extreme because they have no connection to their old home, but know no one to connect them to their new one. Many immigrants, including Beatrice Ziaty experienced the distaste that their new neighbors and fellow community members felt toward the new immigrants that had suddenly moved into their town. In her first couple weeks in Clarkston, Georgia, Ziaty got robbed while walking home from work one night. “The incident robbed Beatrice of the hope that her new home would provide her and her family a sense of security. She became obsessed with her boy’s safety”(31-32). This incident popped the perfect bubble that she was living in and showed her the reality of the United States, and how the perfect ideals of America do not exist in the way that she pictured it. This feeling of unwelcomeness was also felt by Albert, a refugee from Uganda when he experienced racism because of his skin color. “I thought everyone would be nice, loving and caring, but everything changed when I got here. Racism, discrimination and a lot of things changed my expectation” (Hirsch). The racism that he

The one story that opened my eyes was ali because she came to America and figured out how to speak. The immigrants were very scared to come to America. They had to learn a lot of things to come here. They had to get an education. They also need money to pay to get the education so they have to work for the money.

Refugees struggle to choose the decision of whether or not to flee their homes, facing multiple challenges, and trying to find a home in another place such as the U.S. where things are different from what they’re used to, making them feel inside out. First of all, a refugee from Vietnam named Ha feels inside out when trying to find home in the United States, ”To make it worse, the cowboy explains horses here go neigh, neigh, neigh, not hee, hee, hee. No they don’t. Where am I?” (Lai 134). Ha has felt stranded in an unknown place, because the ways things were done in Alabama are very different than what she was used to in Vietnam. Next, Arthur Brice portrays how a refugee from Bosnia named Amela feels inside out when she reads a letter from

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.

Similarly, the Nuer segment themselves through a lineage systems. The Nuer clan is a highly segmented system in the same way as the tribal system. The clan is segmented into the maximal lineages which separate in major lineages which go into minimal which turn into minor lineages (Evens-Prichard, 1940, pp. 286-287). Similarly to the tribal system lineages are only distinct groups in relation to each other. Although every Nuer village is related to a lineage this does not mean that members of the lineage are only found within a single localised community. Rather Nuer clans are dispersed throughout many villages and one may find representatives of many clans within a

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!¨- Emma Lazarus. America is the nation that draws every immigrants attention. Americans have created a country with every type of race, every type of culture, and every type of religion. Making America so unique and diverse. Immigrants and refugees have a huge impact on america's economics, lots of refugees escape persecution, and they bring the culture that we call a melting pot.

In this article you will be learning about the Nuer Tribe in Sudan, Africa. The Nuer tribe is one of the rivals of the Dinka Tribe. The three specific topics I will be talking about marriage, where they live, and their rituals.

Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives is an ethnography by Jon D. Holtzman which describes the Nuer’s migration to America from Sudan. He introduces the Nuer as a people who primarily rely on farming and cultivation for sustenance (Holtzman 2008: 2). According to Holtzman, the Nuer became refugees amid the Sudanese civil war, which erupted because of religious and cultural differences between the North and the South (Holtzman 2008: 7). They first sought refuge in Ethiopian camps, which soon became disrupted and closed due to the country’s violent revolution (Holtzman 2008: 9). After settling down in Kenya, many Nuer peoples found reassurance in the fact that opportunity awaited them in entirely new countries – particularly United States (Holtzman

The influx of Somalians to Minnesota has had many affects, some positive, some not so positive. While the refugees have taken many of the undesirable, unskilled jobs that many native Minnesotans refused to take, many of them were skilled employees, such as doctors or lawyers, in their home country. Because of licensing discrepancies, they cannot land similar jobs in the United States. This means that not only can these skilled professionals practice and enjoy the same benefits of their school as they had in Somalia, but Minnesota cannot benefit from their knowledge either. This causes both parties to be mutually stifled. The majority of the Somalian work force has taken manual labor jobs, or restaurant jobs that require little to no knowledge