Refugee Experiences: Inside Out And Back Again

Belonging in society is challenging for specific groups of people and they can be demoralised by this greatly and that can have a huge effect on their working life or social life but after being accepted or being resilient, their life can become much better. In The Happiest Refugee Anh Do overcomes exclusion is various ways after he has fled from his own country to Australia. Sometimes Anh is affected by the ostracisation by some people in the new community that he has become a part of in Australia.

Refugees go through a lot when fleeing home, including leaving behind favorite food. According to the novel it states, “ Brother Quang forces a swallow before explaining we are used to fresh-killed chicken that roamed the yard” (Lai 120). In this quote it demonstrates that Brother Quang is missing the food, and like most of the refugees don't get adapted to the food from their new countries. Also, the refugees that are able to leave their home country, They leave behind family, friends, and love ones. In the text it states, “But i miss my friends in Sarajevo… Sometimes i wish I’d stayed there, watching the war, rather than being here, safe, but without friends”(Brice 26). In this quote it shows how the children that left home country are missing their loved ones and adults do so too. Furthermore, most refugees like Brother Quang leave behind their studies just to go to safety. According to “Ten Borders” it states, “I just want to get back to my engineering studies”(Schmidle 4). This evidence leads me to understand that the refugees were almost professionals and most were already professional but the war took away that privilege to become successful in their home country. These evidence shows that most of the refugees miss a trait from their home country that their new country just doesn't

Refugees, like Ha, came across many challenges on their journey, It was a traumatic experience for all, people lost their homes, friends, family and their lives. An example from the book inside out and back again say,“head whirls breath stinks for days.”(Lia)They don't have the resources to be clean and that's not the their biggest priority. Another example from the book is, ”food and water are provided but rationed.”(Gevert)There's so many refugees in one little area they don't have enough food or water to feed all of them. A quote from the article Refugees Who, where, why says,“Three civilians were killed three others are wounded last night when an explosion ripped through a crowded food market.”(Gevert) You always need to be aware of your

After migration when they reach a safe country they do not know how to react. Many refugees suffer from depression and PTSD from witnessing the loss of their leaders or loved ones and even from witnessing mass killings, causing them to be distant and not make any effort to get help. They do not understand involvement in their community when they have reached a safe location. The refugee groups stay together and do not against each other fearing one will or could be killed. At refugee camps, many make the camp a big family from hearing and understanding other victims stories, creating bonds.

This essay is about the universal refugee experience and the hardships that they have to go through on their journey. Ha from Inside Out and Back Again and other refugees from the article “Children of War” all struggle with the unsettling feeling of being inside out because they no longer own the things that mean the most to them. Ha and the other refugees all encounter similar curiosities of overcoming the finding of that back again peaceful consciousness in the “new world” that they are living in .

In the book inside Out and Back again Ha’s and her families lives are significantly changed or turned “inside out,” and they face many challenges when they transition from their homeland to a new country. After leaving their homelands, refugees leave behind friends, family, and belongings. The host country’s culture and customs are unfamiliar to the refugees which makes it difficult to do everyday tasks. Another challenge is that the language spoken in the new country is usually different than their native land.

In the novel, “Inside out and back again,” written by Thanhha Lai is about a 10 year old girl named Ha faces many challenges throughout the war because they were forced to leave their home. When they, the refugees flee, they are going for safety, avoiding the war, and they go through so much fear. When refugees find a new home, they face, new people and they try to fit in the new community or a new culture that they are around now. Refugees feel sad when they are turned “inside out” because they had to flee home and they finally feel really happy when they are “back again” because they finally found a new home. Ha’s life is related to the common refugee experience because she faced everything that a refugee would go through. Ha’s experience is a specific example of the universal experience because she went through a lot like any other refugee would during a war.

Moreover, whilst refugees manage [attempt] to persevere through their previous hardships, they will continue to face greater complications in their lives such as struggling to merge into their new culture. As suggested in the article "Refugee and Immigrant Children: A Comparison," (71) stated "They share with adolescents the desire to be accepted by their peers. Both groups may experience a role and dependency reversal in which they may function as interpreters and cultural brokers for their parents... Perhaps the greatest threat is not the stress of belonging to two cultures, but belonging to none." In other words, the author implies that like immigrants, refugees can face the dilemma of not being considered a part of their new culture. The

Refugees around the world as well as ha have proven to be resilent in times of war. Therefore, hardships triumphed through a variety of obstacles have affect refugees losing everything significant to them. During the novel, “Inside Out and Back Again”, by Thanhha Lai, Ha’s mother takes care of four children with the absence of their father. Although, when war approaches in Saigon, mother and her children are in the face of danger forcing them to flee and become refugees. Furthermore, fleeing home on many refuges expirences tough the challenges they face, assimilating to an unfamiliar home and mourning through their losses have truned them inside out and triumphing them and familarze what they have to get back again.

The people in the book inside out and back again and Children of war article both go through the feeling of inside out, feeling like they have no home, no more family, and not enough food or water. An example is in the book Ha says “Brother Khoi gets to monitor lines for the bathrooms, where bottoms stick out to the sea behind blankets blowing in the wind.” (Lai, 80) On the ship that she is on their isn’t enough of anything even bathrooms. The children of war article gives us some facts about how horrible being a refugee is. It says “Since the war began two years ago, more than 200,000 people have been killed, while another 2 million have been driven from their homes.” So many people has lost family and their homes in the process of trying to flee. Another example of Ha feeling inside out is when say tried to help her brother. “Brother Khoi nods and I smile, but I

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

The people were struggling through their everyday life, however suffering became their new lifestyle. Similar to the main characters in The Kite Runner, most refugees immigrate to countries

Ha and other refugees Struggle, Face, Worry and Challenges. The challenge they both have in common is that they had to face challenges along they way. Their challenges were hard to face because, Ha go bullied and didn’t like the food, doesn’t want to being a different religion and trying to know her land. In “Refugees: Who, Where, Why” they had to face the same challenges, but not all that are the same. The “Refugees: Who, Where, Why” tells who were the people that were refugees, and where the refugees are going also why they decided to flee their home. “Today our cowboy brings a paper bucket of chicken, skin crispy and golden, smelling of perfection.” (Lai 119). Connecting to the new life in Alabama and how hard it is for Ha and her family

intergenerational stress. Intergenerational stress created family conflict as children moved between their new culture in school and their family's native culture at home. However, the articles states that all refugees encounter a crisis of identity when they leave behind their communities, lifestyles, livelihoods, and ancestral places of worship. It is said that refugee teens may not have the traditional adult support on which to rely as they search for a sense of self, because adults with whom they live may be undergoing a similar search for self in their new host country. Since adults are anxious about finding jobs and housing and managing their own grief and cultural adjustment, which means they are unable to provide

Many people have days where they work so hard they just need a break. For some this is every day and for some this only once a month. A refugee's life is full of travelling and working hard every day. Sometimes I think my life is stressful but it is nothing compared to some. There are many ways my life is different from refugees from when I wake up in the morning or what I do for fun and what I do before bed.