Susan Smith List Essay

Imagine if you were the force to relocate to a new place where you are not familiar with. Due to the dangers of your homeland, yesterday being normal and the next war broke out and not truly grasping what is going on. You have to start all over. Learn a new language, culture and all new lifestyles. That’s the life of a refugee. The refugee experience in going from loss to recovery is a process. Thousands make that transition every day to start fresh. Some are smoother than others, but all has its challenges. The thing to remember is that it is better at the other end of the journey.
The loss hurts for the people who experience it. Loss can come in a form of families, such as death or disconnection. For refugees, they know these feelings very well this is caused by different reasons for relocating. In “The Bosnia list” by Kenan Trebincevic and Susan Shapiro, Kenan and his family left Serbia, leaving behind his grandmother, aunt, and cousins. When returning back, it was not the same. It was as he …show more content…
They enter a different area with a sense of I am safe here. The harsh reality is that sometimes that's not the case for many of the refugees. Many are just placed in a place where resources are limited and barely surviving. Others are in a place where crime is just as bad as where they came from. That's why many immigrate stay in the house, unsure about the world outside of the house walls. That fear will stay with that person until someone shows them otherwise. For many refugees that are women experience physical abuse and rape that why they are will not feel comfortable anywhere that they go. Freedom’s March: Refugees and Recovery by Philip Dine stated in St. Louis host a lot of Albanian refugees have a diverse board “that has prevented the formation of ethnic enclaves or vocal group.” It will take time fully for them to fully feel safe. Time will only