The Importance Of Refugee Camps

War! Horrid War! The atrocities of World War II that the Germans committed in the confines of their concentration camps are all but forgotten. The American novelist, travel writer and journalist Martha Gellhorn knew all too well about the atrocities that occurred at the infamous Dachau concentration camp in southern Germany. She gives an expository recount from the point of view of herself and the surviving prisoners of war. She details the prisoners’ stories and her own visit to the camp from after the Americans had liberated it from the Germans in 1945. Gellhorn does so with attention for detail and uses language techniques such as personification to bring the abhorrent scene to life in the reader’s mind. We also learn about the awful treatment of the prisoners and the abominable experiments the Germans conducted.

The article, “Refugees: Who, Where, and Why” by Catherine Gevert is about different refugees in the world, where they are from and why they became refugees in the first place. The first concept the author talked about was, around the world, many refugees have had to flee, to escape to safety after being mistreated in their own country. Refugees are protected by law and given basic civil rights when going to different countries. Another key point she talks about is where these people are and in the article shows us that refugee camps are located throughout the world, but are not the best living conditions. Many refugees go here for asylum. Furthermore, some reasons people can become refugees are because of, war and “ethnic cleansing”, also known

This is one of the first situations in the book that exemplifies going through a hard time. In this case the concentration camps, can change who you are as a person even after you have already developed your own

After spending quite a bit of time in a “new world” the refugees get used to their new lives. Many of them have a well paying job and start to become used to their surroundings. After a while many of the locals don’t care as much about having the refugees around. To many of the refugees this new place actually starts to feel like a home, but it could never replace the home that they left behind.

The refugee crisis that plagues the world is often referred to as the Syrian refugee crisis, and Western countries are usually concerned only for the affect it has on them and their country. Yet the countries taking in the most refugees are the relatively stable nations in the Middle East that are closest to those in crisis, like Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey, not the wealthy nations most capable of supporting the refugees. These countries are often small and suffering their own economic and political woes, and struggle with the masses of refugees entering the countries. Various groups are working to raise money and support for these refugees, and other poor African and Middle Eastern countries are attempting to do their best, but without the help of the wealth West, the refugee crisis is not going to go away. A question has been posed to the nations of the world; are they willing to take in any of the millions of the desperate refugees?

My sister is ripped from me, shouting and kicking with fear. Anger and confusion build up in young Rina’s wide, grey eyes. The German devils roll their eyes when they see our pain. They scuff, “Toughen up, Jews,” making us feel worse about this tragic life we’ve been forced to live. Rina yelps when a Nazi soldier slaps her and shoves her away from me. I think to myself, “This is the end. If Rina is gone and my parents are separated from us, how are we all supposed to live in this unfamiliar place alone?”

Refugee camps are run by the government, by world organizations, or the UN. The facilities are in very low condition. Refugee camps are for helping refugees that have fled their homeland for a chance at a safer place to live. The camps are for meeting their basic needs and trying to keep them more safe, but many small needs that are still important are not meet. The refugees usually sleep in tents with very few belongings. Some camps have washstand or areas where they can go to the bathroom and wash up (hygiene stations, WASH). There is a food distribution where a delivery will enter the camp and distribute food and drinking water to each family or group. The also mainly have security point and then like religious places and schools and shops (“Refugee Camp- Facilities”). They may seem like a very good and easy option to stay for refugees but they can lead to many problems and there are many risks.The camps are usually very over populated. There were around 407,477

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.

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 .

Social and racial differences have all caused genocide, refugee camps, and suicide bombers to exist. And even though some rules are made to please two parties, some consequence can arise. This is what happened in the book written by Neal Shusterman named Unwind. The book takes place in the future were there is a civil war over abortion. To end the war, the Bill of Life is proposed and it requires for all babies to be born, but when the child grows up, the parents can choose to have him aborted for a greater purpose. Unwind may take place in the future, but the events are not too different from the past and present, where genocide,

Beginning in 1987, the muslim government of Sudan declared all christian males in South Sudan to death. 27,000 orphaned boys fled to ethiopia on foot. Come the end of the century in 1991 they fled to Kenya. Surviving a 1,000 mile Journey from South Sudan to a refugee camp in Ethiopia, lastly to a U.N. refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya. During the journey, survival meant swimming rivers with the Nile Crocodile, burying collapsed refugee brothers, drinking urine, eating mud, outrunning muslim government troops with guns, before several thousand were granted asylum in the United States. There was a message board in the U.N. camp of near 10,000 people. On the message board was a list of all the men granted immigration acceptance, and were to leave

I experienced many different cultures, ethnicities and traditions when my family lived in Thailand. We lived in a Refugee camp and it was not like an America society. Every month, a volunteer group from a big city would aid every family in the refugee camp with bags of rice depending on how many people are in your family. There were about ten schools in the camp which were public schools and Catholic schools. Schools and houses were built out of bamboo and trees, and the buildings don't last more than a decade. Life was not easy in Thailand. Not every parent had a job and they found other ways to make money to provide for their families. There were many cultures and different ethnicities living in the same area and our neighbors spoke different languages and they were from different ethnic groups. There are many holidays and cultural traditions that we celebrate every year by dancing, playing music, and having big festivals.

Moving to America was the biggest change in my life. Before, I know very little of this world and my thoughts and opinion were very narrow. I did not have the best education and I think little about my future since I lived in a refugee camp. I also could not open myself up to people of different background because of the lack of diversity while living in the camp. But moving to America I was introduced with a new culture, education, and diversity that changes my life and my views.

Most of the people that entered these camps were dead within an hour after arriving. Since the number of survivors were next to none, it is hard for us to understand or even put this horror into words. In this book, Patrick Hicks uses the narrator to point out the inadequacy of language to represent Lubizec.

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