Outcasts United Book Report

In Warren St. John’s Outcasts United, the citizens of Clarkston, Georgia had a fantasy of living in the ideal American town. However, that fantasy stood no chance when faced with the harsh reality of life. When a myriad of refugees from war-torn countries were placed in Clarkston, the townspeople saw their fantasy begin to slip away. Clarkston’s residents disliked the influx of refugees because they feared the thought of losing their ideal American town. The citizens were too selfish to live in such a state of liminality as depicted by St. John. Rather than helping their neighbors, the “old” Clarkston residents maintained their ideology by isolating the refugees and making it nearly impossible for the refugees to survive or have a desirable life in Clarkston. The Clarkston residents were driven by fear of the unknown and were reluctant to accept the refugees. Luma started a youth soccer program, which was aimed toward the refugee children to help the younger generation of refugees fit into the American society and lessen the tensions between the Clarkston residents and the refugees that was evident in her generation of refugees. The Clarkston residents had to accept and become a part of the inevitable change in their community.

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

In a small town outside of metro Atlanta, each year, at least 1,500 refugees settle in the city of Clarkston to start a new beginning at life. Refugees from Bhutan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Liberia, and Vietnam come in waves from every corner of the globe. Lately there has been an increasingly number of refugees from the Congo, due to the civil war that has been ongoing for many years. Currently, there is a population of 13,000 individuals who have made Clarkston their home away from home. We ask, what brings the refugees to this little city? Many wonder how this has happened, how Clarkston has developed its own little cultural sense of identity? Refugees started settling in Clarkston back in the early 1990's, and it's been the resettlement hub ever since. The reason so many refugees settled in Clarkston, Georgia is due to the low- income based apartments, easy access to public transit and it’s near the interstate, which can take you to any part of Atlanta.

“People are talking about immigration, emigration and the rest of the fucking thing. It's all fucking crap. We're all human beings, we're all mammals, and we’re all rocks, plants, rivers. Fucking borders are just such a pain in the fucking arse.”-Shane MacGowan. Outcast United, written by Warren St. John, is a fantastic tale of a refugee soccer team and the revolution of a small American settlement. Warren St. John follows the lives of a diverse group of people as they try to fit into their new-fangled surroundings and as the town tries to accommodate them. This interesting tale is all about a small municipality that turns into a global community and how people can create a world wherever they go. As the reader goes along they see a large amount

One of the most recurring themes in Warren St John’s 2009 novel, Outcasts United: An American Town, A Refugee Team, and One Woman’s Quest to Make a Difference is community. Throughout the book, the protagonist, Luma Mufleh, creates a unique community amongst refugee boys living in Clarkston, Georgia. In the 1990s, Clarkston became a resettlement location for refugees and their families. The boys and their families were selected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for resettlement in the United States. These families were forced to relocate after living in countries with war, persecution, natural disasters, environmental crises, and poverty.

The first field struggle was with the Indian Creek Elementary School. The principle gave Luma the permission to use the field, but it had no bathrooms, soccer goals or lights. The YMCA was supposed to help her, but they didn't even try to help her get a better field.

The book Outcasts is a very enjoyable book to just sit down some time and read for fun. This book and the books that follow are an offshoot of John Flanagan’s original story the Ranger's Apprentice. His writing style is very similar to the other books we has written. Very simple easy read and understand what he is trying to tell. This story will not take much of your time so you could read a few chapters a day and be done in a week, that is if after you start reading you can put the book back down. No, you won’t have to read the Ranger's Apprentice first, but I would recommend that you do so that you can have some background. If you liked that series, then you will love his newest one. It follows the story of a 16 year old boy named Hal going

‘Outcast United’ is a book by Warren St John based on the incredible tale of a refugee soccer team and how a small town in America transformed to find unity in diversity. Warren St John collaborated with Spiegel & Grau, U.S. to publish the book in April 2009, and later in the Netherlands, U.K, Japan, China, Italy, and Germany (St John, 2009). Overall, ‘Outcasts United’ expounds the story of the challenges and triumphs of a group of refugee players, the strength and determination of an exceptional woman who coaches them, and their neighbourhood. Clarkston, Georgia was an ordinary town in the south until the government designated it as a refugee settlement centre in the early 1990s. Resultantly, the town became the first American neighbourhood for hundred of refugees fleeing the war-torn zones such as Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, Liberia, and others. In the long run, Clarkston was filled with a higher number of different cultural groups, replacing its previous homogenous community. Unlike in the past, now there were women wearing hijabs, scents of curry and cumin, and children of different colours playing on any open space in the town. At that time, Luma Mufleh, an American-schooled woman of Jordanian descent also resided in Clarkston, Georgia. It is Luma Mufleh’s right actions that resulted in the foundation of a refugee soccer team, with the objective of establishing unity among different culture groups, and to keep children off the streets (Outcasts

Pariah: A social outcast, one who doesn't fit in with the morals of society. Derived from the caste system, in which it was the lowest one could be. Pariah tells a story of a 17 year old African-American teenager named Alike who is learning to embrace her sexual identity as a lesbian. Alike likes to hang out at clubs with her openly lesbian friend Laura.

The challenges the refugees had to face included the complications of their pasts, and how wars in their home countries altered their lives. From the wars, members of families were scattered not only through America, but through the world from displacement and resettlement. Other family members were shot or killed, sometimes in front of the refugees. “...Luma expressed frustration that a young Liberian player seemed to suddenly zone out during play. Another Liberian who knew the boy told her she didn’t understand: the boy was forced by soldiers to shoot a close friend,” (John 58). In some cases, people were thrown into jail for no reason, or without proof of wrongdoing. Paula Belegarmire’s husband was fallaciously taken from his home and jailed

I have been personally convicted this year about one specific thing. For several years, I have felt like an outcast, a background noise, a misfit. I have allowed these feelings to control how I treat the people around me. I have placed multiple labels on this certain group of people, claiming they were full of themselves, snobby, and prideful. Recently, this has changed. I have learned not to judge said people so quickly, but instead I have attempted to learn their story, to interact with them more, and to accept that I will not have a close bond with everyone.

As the plot thickens in The Unwanteds more mysteries are found leaving me with more questions than answers. I found out why Mr. Today was holding back Alex from his Magical Warrior Training. Eventually Alex starts his training and I can see him become more happy and he feels more needed. Before he felt very left out and started to cause some problems in Artime. He wandered around where he should not have been and almost compromised Artime. In this journal I will be discussing three different objects that I think have an important role in the story.

The Somali Civil War, which has lasted from 1991 to the present, spurned a migration of Somali refugees from their home country, which is still at war today in 2017, to the United States of America. Between 1980 and 2014, over 9,500 Africans immigrated to Colorado, and from 2000 to 2010, over 2,200 of these refugees arrived from Somalia. With this significant influx of refugees from Somalia in recent years, the issue of relations between Somali immigrants and the dominant group in Colorado, white citizens, has been addressed in different ways. The subject of this study is one particular town in Colorado called Ft. Morgan. The interactions between the two social groups in question might suggest that the nature of the relationship between Somali immigrants and natives of Ft. Morgan is an assimilation.

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