Summary Of Kristin Lewis Shattered Lives

In the article Shattered Lives by Kristin Lewis Dania faces several challenges living as a refugee outside her country. First of all Dania and her family had no choice but to fled after her school had closed and there was lots of bombing in her village. She had to run from the war. Which led to Dania’s family having to live in a small garage with no heat. In the article it talks about how Dania’s father tries finding jobs where he can, but trying to find good paying jobs is hard. Dania misses everything she had to leave behind, like her home her friends, everything. Dania was enrolled in school, and everything is getting better, the school helps them a lot like with everyday items she needs for school and food. The war in Syria hasn’t ended,

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.

Surprising in one so young, a large focus of Allie’s life is on her responsibilities – to her job, but also a personal responsibility to “her families” – the refugees she chooses to help. Not many people would choose to dedicate as many years of their lives to advocacy as Allie, let alone those of their twenties.

There are many different challenges that Dania has to overcome In the article “ Shattered Lives.” One challenge that Dania faced is that she had nothing else to wear except a pair of pajamas at the refugee camp. This a challenge because wearing only one pair of clothes until you buy new clothes. They overcome this challenge by the dad trying to work at a business that has a pretty good paying job. The organization that helped Dania with this problem was UNICEF.

This book, and the lessons Mrs. Song taught through it, were some of the most eye-opening experiences of my academic career. Mrs. Song was immensely fond of multi-faceted ways of teaching. She took us on a field trip to the refugee offices in Nashville, TN where I learned that most people do not understand how difficult it is to integrate into American culture, and also how important it is to adjust wholly. These experiences have fueled my desire to learn more about refugees in my community and how to serve them. Following this Nashville visit, Mrs. Song introduced us to her friend who was a refugee from Liberia. She currently owns a local sewing shop, and she invited us to her shop to discuss her life and journey as a refugee. My eyes were opened to the hardship, courage, and perseverance required of immigrants. Learning of their hardships encouraged me to persevere through difficult situations.

After the Second World War there were millions of people who found themselves in foreign countries and separated from their families. These people were known as “displaced person”, and were mainly former prisoners of either labor or concentration camps, prisoners of the war, or refugees. Two incidents in Flannery O’Connor’s life inspired her to write “The Displaced Person”.

This chapter explores the stories of immigrants and refugees, or other asylum seekers. She explains “they are works of literature, not case histories, but they do more than exploit for the purposes of entertainment the sorts of distressful situations in which some real children find themselves. Literature at its best is what most convinces us of the realities of other people’s identities and selfhoods, so that these novels, responsibly written and attempting authenticity, act as powerful and memorable case histories which are as true as, or truer than, factually accurate ones. (26) Upon looking at the UNCRC- mentioned above- Wilkie-Stibbs examines the westernized and industrialized construction of the child and childhood that anyone under eighteen is a child, and they shall be protected (24). However, in historical documents references, including the French Revolution’s 1795 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, and bringing up the idea of child labor and child soldiers, each nation has its own conception of what it is to be a child. Rachel Anderson’s The War Orphan, Derek Gregory’s The Colonial Present, Beverley Naidoo’s The Other Side of Truth, Elizabeth Laird’s Kiss the Dust, Benjamin Zephaniah’s Refugee Boy, Elizabeth Lutzeier’s Lost for Words, and Julia Alvarez’s How the

All around the world people have to suffer just like Muchoki’s family. As a result of war so many innocent families have to flee their homes to another country in hopes of a better life. Often times they either don’t make it or aren’t welcomed. Refugees all around the world experience alot of the struggles similar to Muchoki’s family and sometimes even worse. These struggles often include loss of loved ones, destroyed homes, and finally change of society and environment.

This book resonates with my life experience as a poor person in the refugee

This article reveals the stories from five refugees who fled their home countries in hope of a better life. These refugees range from the ages of 26-36 and had to give up their lives back in their home country because of how dangerous it currently is. Sandy Khabbazeh is from Aleppo City, in a house that is on the line between ISIS and the Syrian government. Khabbazeh experienced being shot by a sniper three times, but was lucky to have been missed. She went to America as a student to build her future, but struggles financially as education is expensive. Khabbazeh is working at a job and hopes that in 2016, she would be able to reunite with her family in America. Mustafa Asefi is an Afghan residing in Vancouver. From Kabul, he was sent threats form the Taliban, but was lucky enough to receive an American Visa as a worker for an international company.

Refugees are innocent human beings who have been forced to escape their homes. As they face mental, physical and emotional trauma, they face and confront astounding obstacles during their escape from their corrupted country.

Many immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, especially those from the Middle East and other war-torn countries, want to relocate in other countries. It is not an easy feat and these people go through different struggles. They not only struggle because of fear, but also due to poverty, unemployment, racism and discrimination, and lack of opportunities among others. For this reason, immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers need all the help they can get because they face many struggles all at once. I for one can relate to their struggle of learning a new language and adapting in a different or unfamiliar environment. One feels out of place as well as confused about culture, beliefs, and ideals. On one hand, there is a need to adapt and adjust but on the other hand, there is also a strong drive to remain true to one’s culture. The struggles make these conflicting feelings worse. For this reason, I very much agree with Lee’s plea to the international community to lend a helping hand. People who experience these difficulties also need inspiration because they need to believe that with effort, determination, and help from others, they can overcome the obstacles they face. Lee manages to accomplish this objective as she gives an inspiration talk that encourages immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers to never give, and the international community to meet them halfway and help them escape their difficult

For an example, Barnes and Aguilar (2007) argue “...support, referring to relationships outside the home but in the refugee’s local, regional, and national environment that might be available to assist the refugee through the stressors of early resettlement, might be an important factor in refugee resettlement”. It follows that to ensure refugees and immigrants have proper experiences on their resettlement is to provide services that can support their culture and living situations.

Her family’s home was attacked and turned to rubble. Just as her town’s people were massacred. This small girl has seen fighter planes, artillery, and missiles. Nights that are spent trying to forget her brother and sister’s death, become reminders as she listens to bombs falling. Danger is everywhere in her life. Shahad is in the midst of a war zone. A four year old’s days should be filled with laughter, instead Shahad fears for her life. Her mother may be their physically but the trauma has taken her mentally. Part of her family is dead, and her remaining family is fighting just to survive one day at a time. The trauma Shahad has lived through will haunt her for the remainder of her life. She will most likely experience post traumatic stress disorder, which will never let her mind rest. Her thoughts will always be in fight or flight mode if she is lucky enough to keep fighting with her family to survive (UNHCR). So much has been busy stolen from this child and the United States should offer Shahad and her family relief. Her past and current situation may be horrific but Americans can give her a future. Shahad is not the only one and her story is just a glimpse into the refugees’

An Individual refugee essentially requires protection when settling in a new nation. Human rights are meant to be accepted and appreciated by the individual refugee. Many of the refugees faces a similar obstacle when migrating to new nation such as the lack of language. The case explores a 11 year old girl that faces the heartbreaking of her father’s death, her uncles beating that lead her to leave her own country to settle in a new safe nation.