Hannah Arendt Refugee

In Hannah Arendt article “We Refugee” states that the hardship of being a refugee is in losing one’s past. I think it was clearly presented in this movie how the town was not able to accept her just as a human being but when she agreed to do what they wanted her to do, they accepted her and gave her 2 weeks to see if she does what they told to her to do then they will accept her. They didn’t feel it was their duty to help her just because she was not from their village and I think they would protect her from that gangster if she was from their village, for them she was a stranger who they didn’t want to help her unless she would give them in return. I think same is happing with refugees they are not being helped or accepted into the United States just because they are not from America.
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In the movie it showed how she started to work for everybody for 1 hour each day. People accepted her help in doing those chores that nobody really needed but which nevertheless make life better so she was able o becomes a part of that community and after 2 weeks she was allowed to stay there but when police came and put the poster of grace as wanted in bank robbery, then tom argue that because their town is in increased risk because of her she should do more chores for the villagers and with less pay. Even though grace didn’t wanted to do it but she still did it just to please them just because she wanted to part of them and their community. In addition to that male citizens of Dogville were making sexual advances to her and she was hardly able to defend herself against exploitation just because she was not from their community, they treated her bad because they knew nobody would