Somehow my mum had illegally made a trade with some smugglers at camp, to get us through the border. Just one hour later: We were lying face down in a big white truck. We were buried under about 50 sacks of potatoes. It was not a comfy ride. I managed to peep through a little hole on the side of the truck, I saw big sand dunes towering into the sky, they were the size of big hills, and the sand was old and dried up. We were approaching the border, to me it looked like a big prison, it had 4-meter-high walls with barbed wire at the top. I spotted 20 figures that looked like soldiers, my body was shaking with fear. As we got closer I recognized the distinctive Syrian uniform that the men were wearing, helmets covered their heads, and they
We believe that newcomer Syrians, children and adults, with disabilities and special needs should be provided with services designed to meet their individual need to become contributing citizens now and in the future. SCFS have identified 2 groups with different disabilities.
We started off with a bang. We started with me thinking of what to do how to do it and what were my ideas. Then, a little later we actually started it and not gonna lie, it was scary. I didn’t know that much about my family, yeah i've heard stories but they're stories. Later on we went home i didn’t tell my family anything just unsuspiciously getting all the information and I learned a lot yes. I learned about my names and why they're my names, I learned about my dad getting lost a lot, I learned about my mom moving here to america when she was 14 and how her life was before she moved and why she moved. I learned about my uncle going to jail for crossing the border illegally which is kinda funny. All those I learned but i couldn’t find anything
Everyday, people all over the world are removed from their homes and forced to leave. You could be pushed out of your house from a foreclosure, or pushed out of your country from an extremist. In society today, thousands upon thousands of people are fleeing to a new country they can call “home” and where they can feel safe. Among these people, a big majority are the Syrian people. The Syrian Refugee Crisis has been relevant for about four years since the start of the Syrian civil war that began in March 2011, and is comparable to the Native Americans being pushed from their home lands. The Syrian Refugee Crisis equates to the Trail of Tears because both Syrians and refugees alike were pushed out of their homes, they were both forced to find
One day while we were just chilling.We were inside a church and we decided to go and see the world.So we hopped on a plane we stole it.Keep that on the low. We just trusted our guts. We ended up in africa.It was full of things i have never before.I saw a tiger for the first time I also saw a rhino for the first time.Africa was so beautiful it had long big trees the climate was just perfect.We met a very cool tribe of other dead people.When I tried to talk to them they seemed to get very testy.
December 2008 marks the initial start to the devastating and gruesome cartel drug war in Mexico that has led to the deaths of over 80,000 people. In the midst of this war, violence has surged dramatically in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, an area seen by many as a point of contention in the lucrative drug smuggling business that stems from Mexico and flows into the United States. As a result of the recent outbreak of violence, it has been difficult to accept the fact that my mother and sister cross the border every weekend from El Paso to Ciudad Juarez to go visit family knowing they are at risk of being taken hostage or even worse, getting killed by the cartel. My father has also experienced these life-threatening occurrences
Populations are contained within borders, whether they are physical fortifications or a concept of invisible territorial borders, in order to maintain a nation united and out of problems—is what most of the inhabitants idealize. The well-known border between Mexico and the United States has not only expanded but has also raised many doubts. Urban myths have misled many individuals to think positive about the extensive fence that separates two countries. One popular and recent myth that many people from United States feed off of is that Mexico sends problems, and by building a bigger walls will stop the flow of problems. I myself, am an immigrant from Guadalajara, Jalisco, a rich in culture state; nonetheless, I have lived three-fourths of my life in Modesto, California. I personally have been through the Mexican border several times.
Syriana is a movie revolving around the many facets of US – Middle East relations. The movie is split into various plot lines to identify roots of Islamic Militancy and Terrorism in the Middle East, prospects of democracy and full self-determination and the varying effects of current US policy.
Syrian civil war started in 2011 was the outcome of the opposition against the President Bashar al-Assad regime. The uprising emerged as a response to the Arab spring movement that lead to regime change in Tunisia and subsequently turned into mass unrest rooted into the discontent with long-term dictatorship and poor economic situation in the country (Manfreda, n.d.). The number of Syrian citizens killed in the civil war reached 140000 since March 2011 (SBS 2014). The European Commission (2014, 2) reports approximately 9.3 million civilians “in need for humanitarian assistance”. The scale of armed rebellion between government and opposition that lead to an increasing number of casualties among civilians did not remain unnoticed by the
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to leave your home for a different country? In the Syria migration article and the book Of Mice and Men it described the journeys of people who were trying to get to a better life.
I am travelling back to the United States after visiting my family in Kurdistan. I am entering the gate from Kurdistan to come back to Nashville when all of a sudden two formals looking in suits men come from the United States side of the terminal. They take my family and I to the side and let us know that we are not allowed back into the United States. My family and I look at each other, then the men, hoping this is all a joke. We show them our passports to show them we are citizens of the United States of America, but they’re not even fazed. They tell us since we are Muslims travelling from the Middle East that we’re not allowed back to our home, the home where born and raised in. As generations grow and change the view of minorities change
Next came more of a difficult choice. It is stated that many of the Syrians had to leave their homes and that I sold my home for a mere $20,000. From there I had to make the difficult choice of spending more money and having a better outcome with Turkey, or travel by sea
Even though I am a normal fourteen year old boy with Syrian lineage, but many people from my middle school beg to differ. People in my history class back at Egan had figured out that I was Syrian, and wanted to make me feel miserable. People only decided to look at me through the image filter of being from an Arabic country, and not look at me as an individual person. They grouped me into something that I do not want to be related with at all: terrorism.
The Syrian Arab Republic is an Arab country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the North, Iraq to the East, Jordan to the South, and Israel to the Southwest. In March 2011, the Syria conflict has begun due to various reasons and is still going on today. This outbreak is one of the key factors which resulted the Arab Spring (Arab Uprising). Arab Spring refers to the democratic uprisings that arose independently and spread across the Arab world in 2011. The protest originated in Tunisia in December 2010 and quickly took hold in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. In these countries, the citizens intiatied the protests as the ruling families have been
A refugee is defined as an individual who has been forced to leave their country due to political or religious reasons, or due to threat of war or violence. There were 19.5 million refugees worldwide at the end of 2014, 14.4 million under the mandate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), around 2.9 million more than in 2013. The other 5.1 million Palestinian refugees are registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). With the displacement of so many people, it is difficult to find countries willing to accept all the refugees. There are over 125 different countries that currently host refugees, and with this commitment comes the responsibility of ensuring these refugees have access to
Since 2011, Syria has been engaged in a Civil War with protestors against the government and members of the extremist group ISIS, and approximately 7.6 million people have been displaced from their homes (usnews.com 2015). As the conflict destroys more homes and livelihoods each year, an increasing number of civilians have been forced to leave Syria and try to find safety elsewhere. Already a contentious issue, the Syrian refugee crisis has awakened tensions, both economic and social as debate erupts over what to do with the refugees.In response to the crisis, while some countries like Germany have pledged to help the refugees, (New Statesman 2015 1) only 2,340 have been admitted. Clearly, more needs to be done in order to help the refugees. Although there are economic and population concerns to be considered, the humanitarian conflict that faces the refugees and solutions already available are reason enough for Europe to increase the numbers of Syrian refugees allowed in.