Syrian Refugee Resilience

Saul’s article recognizes that the Syrian refugee crisis exists amidst citizen sponsorship, Aboriginal judgement, and disorder within EU countries’ immigrant policies. According to Saul, democracy in Canadian politics grants citizenship to immigrants without any obstacles. Canada’s immigration policies are transparent because they are balanced with civic participation. Saul thinks that multiculturalism is a forceful catalyst towards establishing equality and integrity for the refugees. In the first point, Saul does not agree that refugees should be privately sponsored and assisted by the government. In the second point, Saul indicates that Canada’s national identity is the product of the encounter between the Aboriginals and European settlers, which has resulted in citizenship. By entering the Inuit circle, immigrants can establish themselves as a strong unit not by having roots outside Canada, but by living with Canadian intellect. The immigrants should mold to nature because this is the way the Aboriginals have defined their understandings of life. As Sifton has noted, “the … government … made presentations … to potential immigrants, presenting beautiful images of the Rocky Mountains and thriving settled farmland” (475). In the last point, Saul comments on the European prejudices that are

The Happiest Refugee written in 2011, is an award winning autobiography portraying ones will to survive amongst extreme hardships. Above all, the story displays resilience and optimism at their finest, despite the setbacks and adversities faced by Anh and his family. Readers as a result are invited to empathise with the hardships confronted by refugees, in turn enlightening them to be grateful for the many pleasures

Resilience, when asked to define and explain the act of being resilient, can be a hard thing to describe. It is something everyone must be at one point in their lives, and what some people must be every day. There are different levels to it, depending on what the person is going through at the time. However, resilience is commonly described as just staying strong in a tough situation or time in a person’s life. When something goes wrong, or something bad happens, the person affected doesn’t let it break them. They stand strong against whatever is being thrown at them, but they bend when they need to. Someone who is resilient is flexible, making sure they don’t crack under pressure. As Robert Jordan said in The Fires of Heaven, “The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”

The laws that they lived by were unfair and they lived a unhappy life, until his father and uncle’s planned a dangerous trip which if successful would lead them to Malaysia where they would be safe and give the children including Anh Do himself a happier life. “My dad and uncles huddled together at night planning the escape. The goal was to reach Malaysia and the journey was going to be complicated and potentially life threatening.” (Page 10) Indeed the trip was harsh, as they faced pirates, lack of water, food and the hygiene in the small boat they had was lacking which is something no person should go through no matter where they come from or who they

People have learned to be resilient in order to overcome serious hardships. A person’s resilience can be seen through how they handle bad experiences; to be resilient in the face of adversity. People who never give up and always fight back even when it gets hard are resilient. Some believe that resilience is a trait that can be learned.

Resilience is the ability to overcome struggles. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel is put into a concentration camp during the Holocaust. During his time there, Elie would not have been able to be so resilient without his father by his side. In Boys in The Boat, Joe Rantz would also have struggled to overcome his struggles without his dad. However, without Joe’s father treating him so badly throughout his childhood Joe might not have been so motivated to prove to his father that he was strong. In both books, Joe and Elie both demonstrate resilience by using their family to overcome their struggles.

Resilience is the power or the ability to return to the original form. “Resilience is born by grounding yourself in your own loveliness, hitting notes you thought were way out of your range” (94). Father Gregory Boyle says this because he knows that resilience is needed in order to change. Resilience is important because we can become better people by doing things, we thought we couldn’t do. In the book, Tattoos on the Heart, The Power of Boundless Compassion, Boyle claims resilience is essential in our lives because it is the key to do better.

Resilience is a skill that you develop over time through your experiences. People with this quality are able to gather their strength and keep going even when it seems futile to do so. Human resilience can be defined as the ability to come from your lowest point, back to your highest. It is the ability to get back up even when everything and everyone is pushing you down. Resilience can be expressed in several different ways and different people will have different beliefs on what it means to be resilient. In The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls and her family face numerous trials that require resilience to carry on from. Examples of this quality can be found in both The Glass Castle and in a quote from Elizabeth Edwards.

Martha Arual Akech had a happy childhood in an urban setting as a Dinka girl. When war came to Martha’s village she began the journey to safety as a “Lost Girl” with her family and her fellow refugees during the Second Sudanese Civil War. In the beginning of Martha’s section, she and her fellow lost girl’s are severely dehydrated and in the search of drinking water.Martha describes, “We felt so tired and ill that we’d find a spot to lie down and say to ourselves, ‘this is it, I am not going to make it. I can go anymore’… When at last we came to a creek with plenty of water, I was very, very sick.”(Akech, page 41). Therefore, this displays that Martha and her fellow refugees are severely dehydrated and believe that they will die walking the rigorous journey to water. However, no matter how low the light may shine Martha and her comrades use their hopes and dreams to motivate through the rough times they face. Furthermore, at the end of Martha section, she is going to school and everything seems so difficult and different, however, with lots of effort and studying she passes. Additionally, in Martha’s section, it states, “The classes were really hard for me, too… Everything I had to do every minute of the day was new- the culture, the schoolwork, the customs… I managed to graduate from high school, and

Doaa’s life in Syria started out good her family would spend days at a lake by their home in Daraa and enjoy time together as a family swimming and doing things that normal people are able to do. But then once Doaa’s immediate family moved out of the Al Zamel family house Doaa’s life slowly began to take a slight turn down a downward slope as they would deal with hardships. To make the extra money Doaa’s father Shokri started taking goods to and from Jordan for a business man and this went

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, tells a story about a father and a son traveling alone through a burned America. McCarthy writes this story telling us how humans struggle to create a perfect, flawless world, but in reality, no ideal world exists despite human hope. Furthermore, this story deals with different aspects of processing sacrifice and loss. As the father and son walk together on their journey, little changes as they go from place to place across this waste landscape. Everywhere they walk, the surroundings remain filthy and full of ashes. The dusky sky forms dark fog and clouds, and when it snows, it turns gray. They have almost nothing, except one gun to protect themselves, the clothes that they wear, a cart full of food, and the love they have for each other. Despite the bleakness, McCarthy creates a story about the redeeming power of personal generosity and selflessness in an imperfect world.

The American way of helping those in need has been lost in the midst of terrorist attacks in a foreign country. The denying of Syrian refugees from coming into the United States has marked the decline of our hospitable ways. We are so fearful of a terrorist attack that the majority of Americans have went against the American way of helping by denying Syrian refugees access to the United States in their time of great need.

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Introduction: Everyday hundreds of Syrian refugees are fleeing Syria escaping from various forms of persecution. These refugees are fleeing to neighboring countries. Because of its location, Greece has become a hotspot for refugees. In the past refugees who arrived in Greece would continue to migrate further into northern Europe. However since Macedonia has shut its borders to all immigrants, it has left several hundred refugees stranded in Greece without adequate housing and shelter. This has created a very heavy burden for small border towns that once operated as transit points. With winter approaching the concern of how to meet the needs of the refugees continues to grow. As weather conditions continue to worsen the current infrastructure

Related to a life of significance is the capacity to endure: “One’s spirit supports one when ill, but a broken spirit who can bear?” A resilient spirit provides the sustaining power to continue through life but without it, ordinary life can feel like a difficult burden.