Ha When Refugee Children

Imaging living some places for your whole life.Then a war begins and your family must leave the only place they called home, because they don't think that they are safe anymore. That was the life of Ha and many other refugees around the world .Refugee children have a difficult time coping with losses,starting a new life all while adapting to new scenery. An representation of the refugee experience is the story of Ha.Ha is a young protagonist Vietnam who family was affected by the Vietnam war in the early 1700s. Her family was forced into moving to the states where her mother was promised a better life for her 3 son and 1 daughter .In crisscrossed packs Ha talks about how her father has been missing due to the war. In the story Ha …show more content…
When a child feels as if they don't belong they may fall into depression .Not all families are as lucky as ha family.In some occasion refugee and immigrant children aren't allowed to attend school.When this happens an even bigger gap occurs. “Perhaps the greatest threat to these children is not the stress of belonging to two cultures, but the stress of belonging to none (Lee, 1988)”. This quote goes well with the topic of not belonging because refugee children have to live 2 lives.They have to live the life of a normal student learning things like a new language or relearning thing like in “feel dumb”. Ha has to re-take the 4 grade because of her apattecne form school