Refugees and immigrants experience the Universal Refugee experience. Thanhha Lai, someone who had once undergone the Universal Refugee experience herself, writes about her experiences in the novel "Inside Out and Back Again" through the perspective of a ten-year-old refugee named Ha. As a refugee, Ha has to flee her home for salvation, just like many other refugees and immigrants. Before Ha had left her home, she was proud and confident in her capabilities, but when had she fled to Alabama, she had left her belongings and memories behind, thus turning her life "Inside out" and "Back Again" when she learns to adjust to her new country. Inside out and back again refers to the Universal Refugee Experience since refugees and immigrant's lives
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In "Refugee and Immigrant Children: A Comparision" (Fantino and Colask, 71) it is written that refugee and immigrants go through many hardships. The text says, "Refugee and immigrant children... must deal with migration, which represents a disruptive loss to one's life... They both have to endure the "push and pull" factors of home and school, which often work in opposite directions. At school, they share with other adolescents the desire to be accepted by their peer group... Both refugee and immigrant children may encounter society's discrimination and racism, and both have to accomplish the central task of childhood and adolescence - developing a sense of identity... " (Fantino and Colask, 71). The lives of immigrant and refugee children are turned "Inside Out" because they must trade their old skills for ones that will help them thrive in their new situation, and their social standing might have changed. For example, they could have to learn a completely new language. How well a foreign individual is able to thrive can depend on multiple different factors. As stated in "Refugee and Immigrant Children: A Comparison" (Fantino and Colask, 71), "How well children adapt is influenced by several factors, including age of arrival, individual resiliency, and reception by the host community and society." Refugees, immigrants, and their children must give up what they had, and learn something completely
In "Refugee and Immigrant Children: A Comparision" (Fantino and Colask, 71) it is written that refugee and immigrants go through many hardships. The text says, "Refugee and immigrant children... must deal with migration, which represents a disruptive loss to one's life... They both have to endure the "push and pull" factors of home and school, which often work in opposite directions. At school, they share with other adolescents the desire to be accepted by their peer group... Both refugee and immigrant children may encounter society's discrimination and racism, and both have to accomplish the central task of childhood and adolescence - developing a sense of identity... " (Fantino and Colask, 71). The lives of immigrant and refugee children are turned "Inside Out" because they must trade their old skills for ones that will help them thrive in their new situation, and their social standing might have changed. For example, they could have to learn a completely new language. How well a foreign individual is able to thrive can depend on multiple different factors. As stated in "Refugee and Immigrant Children: A Comparison" (Fantino and Colask, 71), "How well children adapt is influenced by several factors, including age of arrival, individual resiliency, and reception by the host community and society." Refugees, immigrants, and their children must give up what they had, and learn something completely