Outcasts United

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.

Outcast United was a book filled with emotion, and a culture completely different from anything of which the average American citizen has ever been exposed. Lumas attitude toward the fugees was incredibly positive. No matter what the situation was luma helped anyone on the Fugees team.

The story of a miraculous Jordanian immigrant coach, refugee soccer team, and the transformation of a small Georgia town. This tale follows Luma Mufleh, a female youth soccer coach of the refugee team, the Fugees. Warren St.John takes us into the lives of children with diverse cultural backgrounds, and shows us how Luma had shaped them into the people they are today, simply by coaching them in the game of soccer. The settling of many refugees affected not only the refugees themselves, but many of the Clarkston residents as well. After the town of Clarkston had altered due to the relocation of many people retreating war-torn countries, it gave the townspeople a greater need to adapt than the refugees. Adapting to not only the physical changes in the environment, but also the hate and isolation

Being a refugee involves living through situations of violence and uncertainty, experiencing loss, and attempting to create a future in an uncertain world. By its definition, the refugee experience is one that involves being removed, being excluded, and one in which belonging – to family, community, and country – is always at risk. Thus, the dislocation that refugees experience in their process of migration inevitably influences their sense of home, place, and belonging. Through the process of forced migration, many refugees lose aspects of their identities and attachment to the physical and emotional spaces embedded in their former communities, jobs, skills, language, friends, family, and culture. Upon arrival in a new society, a new

In his book “Where We Live Now: Immigration and Race in the United States” author John Iceland explores a few of the dimensions, aspects, and implications of immigrant residential segregation. He first begins with a historical overview which articulates three main theories regarding the spatial incorporation of immigrants. These theories are: spatial assimilation, ethnic disadvantage, and segmented assimilation. Spatial assimilation states that immigrants may be residentially segregated from other groups for various reasons, mainly highlighting this as a reason that many immigrants live separately from affluent whites. The ethnic disadvantage theory holds that increasing knowledge of the language, customs, and culture of a new country do not lead to increasing assimilation.

The problem with emigrating to a new location is the fear that sets in as you deeply think about the new-like presence of the place, and lack of knowledge the emigrant has of the place. John Solomon Lewis speaks of his bravery and the valiant behavior of families who moved for the betterment of their household, while Frederick Douglass speaks the opposition of moving, stating “a man should never leave his home for a new one”. In the article Boston Traveler, a letter written by John Solomon Lewis spoke the idea of African Americans escaping the harsh realities of slavery during the Reconstruction South. That task was accomplished by a plethora of African American families seeking the freedom they’ve dreamt of. Lewis’ family stowed away in the

Gloria Anzaldua, Sherman Alexie and Richard Rodriguez are three different American authors that struggled with marginalization because of their heritage and culture. It shows that most people that are part of the minority ethnic group, struggle with finding their identity when they are forced to engage in a different society other than their own group. The authors find themselves in a linguistic and cultural borderland because they were looked down upon. They were discriminated by the dominant ethnic group when they try and stick to their heritage and they were shunned and neglected by their own people whenever they try to adhere to the standards of their new country.

Broken dreams and shattered reality was what foreign aliens experience for the first time after they left their home to resettle in the United States. Sold by the lies of told stories of how America will bring nothing up to something, fabricated fantasy of a greater future and a peaceful life. Refugees abandoned their home and culture to anticipate help from people who are willing to help them through thick and thin. Despite not having a threat on the lives of many frighten refugees, economic, financial, racial problem surface as soon as they arrive. Life is not fair, so is America. What was promised only lasted long enough for refugees to grasp a small taste before forcing them into a different crisis with the same void, if not worst. Having

The united states are the most diverse country in the world. The US takes about 70,000 refugee every year from all over the world, and I was one of the many refugees that were living in a place that was an isolated place in Ethiopia. When I first knew that I am going to the US, I was enchanted that I am going to have a prosperous future. Similarly, I was happy to know that I am going to have all the freedom that any human being needs. Additionally, I was delighted that I am going to meet my family after several years of separation. Migrating to the US is the best thing that ever happened to me at least for couple of years; however, my expectation was diminished when I experienced all the difficult obstacles in just a year; I become disappointed.

This chapter explains how life in Clarkston change from being a little town that was socially divided into middle and working people, and an original settlement for yeoman farmers and railroad workers to becoming a resettlement place for refugees. Clarkston began to change when in the 1970s the atlanta airport expanded and became the first international hub. This brought up jobs and those people need places to live so eventually many apartment complexes were build. As this continued the population in Clarkston double. In the 1980s due to the increase of population the crime rates and many of the white people in Clarkston left their apartments causing Landlords to make less money and eventually filling the apartments through government housing

When I was young I remember moving cities and I thought it was going to be the end of the world for me. One of the thoughts that always went through my mind was what if I do not fit in? or will I be able to make any friends? Luckily for me I was able to speak English and I knew I could communicate with people if I had to. This was not the case for Cambodian refugees when they moved to the United States because the Khmer Rouge was attacking Cambodia. Thousands of people moved to the United States and many of these people were kids who did not have a saying whether they wanted to stay or come with their parents because they could not take care of themselves. Many of these kids are now suffering because they fell into the wrong crowds and committed a crime when they were young and due to the antiterrorism and death penalty act they are now being deported back to Cambodia, which they know nothing about, and some of them do not even know how to speak the language. I will be talking about the Cambodian kids that were affected by their parents moving to the United States and how the antiterrorism and death penalty act has affected some of them.

There were parents facing language and cultural barriers, as well as unemployment, which is likely to be as widespread as the text presents it to be. This is because, it is common knowledge that it is harder for people as they age, or get older, to learn new languages and information. Now, that is not to say that it is impossible, just slightly more difficult. In addition, many Americans struggle with understanding all their own laws and rights, so it must be infinitely harder for a refugee to interpret local, state, and national laws, let alone their rights as a citizen. However, the children’s challenges may not be as widespread as the adult refugees’ are. Yes, the face language and cultural barriers as well, but it is a great deal easier for them, than their parents. Many schools, also, offer programs to help initiate these types of children into normal classroom environments, by teaching them English and showing them how to read and write, such as the ESL (English as a Second Language) program. Moreover, in the book, one of the major challenges for the refugee children were American gangs, yet, not all cities have gangs, they might have criminal activity but not gangs, and if placed in a more rural area it may not be an issue, therefore, it is not a widespread issue. It truly depends on individual circumstances, though, to determine if an issue is widespread or not. Amongst other

This semester, I chose to write my essay about the many obstacles that refugees experience while trying to achieve “the American dream.” I was inspired to research this topic after hearing my own family’s story and watching a film called, “Lost Boys of Sudan” and another film titled, “God Grew Tired of Us.” Both films are documentaries that tell the story of teenage boys as they travel from refugee camps in Kenya and Sudan to America. When they arrive in the U.S., they meet their adoptive families, begin to attend school, and start working at menial jobs. But despite their newfound stability, the horrors they experienced in their homeland traveled with them, making it difficult to adjust to life in their new country. These films increased my interest in learning more about the experience of refugees’ and their adjustment to life in America.

Refugees are forced to leave what they have known their whole lives do to events like war, discrimination of race, and religion. Fleeing to a new country hard for purposes of fitting into the new languages, people, and environment. According to Refugees: Who, Where, Why, it says “Today more than 14 million men, women, and children have been forced to flee their homes, towns, and countries because they are afraid to stay” (Gevert 1). These refugee’s lives are turned inside out do to being forced from their homes and forced to leave the places they have known all their lives. Millions of lives are changed and having this happen relates to Ha and her family because of cases of being afraid or wanting to escape.

includes marriage, sonship and inheritance some approved and accepted usages and customs are also referred .it is also including duties of the king , collection of taxes. It contains more detailed descriptions of rituals- sacrifices bathing, quenching libations than any other Dharma Sutras .An example of a law of theses underlying the outcaste system is that. When someone associates with an outcaste- not, however, by officiating at his sacrifices, by teaching him, or by contracting a marriage with him- but by traveling in the same vehicle or sitting on the same seat as he, or by eating together with him, he himself becomes an outcaste within a