For Francisco’s family, they were having an unstable job with low income, which they worked as a farmer picking up crop in a field, to maintain their lives standard. Every child in his family worked daily and couldn’t even acquire an opportunity to study. They came up with a situation which is taking risks and squeezing into a booming freedom country - the United States to continue their life. Their family was trying to get into California and seek a better job or fate. During the time that they were staying in the US, they were sent back to Mexico for several times with the same reason.…
The United States immigration law defines refugees as, “people who are outside of their home country and cannot return due to a well-founded fear of persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinions, or membership in a particular social group” (“Bridging Refugee Youth and Children 's Services”, 795). In 2011, The United States Department of Homeland Security recorded that a total of 56,384 refugee arrived in the United States with majority of the population being children according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (McBrien, 329). Taking a look at the characteristic of the demographic of the refugee children, one can noticed a high percentage of refugee children were Unaccompanied Refugee…
Did you know that Europe had a huge influx of refugees since the second World War? Why are there so many misconceptions about refugees? Due to the Civil War, refugees face through many problems. In Syria, they were led by Al-Assad family since 1971 and the where Quasi-Dictator. The Arab countries forced the dictator to step down, but the Syrian dictator refused to step down and caused the civil war in march 15 2011.…
Refugees can be driven to flee their homes due to factors such as war, famine, and persecution of a religion. Those who do flee, undergo the Universal Refugee Experience, in which refugees who fled their homes in hopes of a better life, find a new place they could call home. Thanhha Lai, an author who had experienced the Universal Refugee Experience first-hand, writes about it and its effects from the perspective of a ten-year-old refugee from the historical fiction novel "Inside out and Back again" named Ha. As a refugee, Ha flees her home seeking salvation from her war-torn country, similar to millions of refugees around the world. The novel "Inside out and Back Again" represents the Universal Refugee Experience because it emphasizes on…
I think the US should admit refugees to come to here but first they should check their background to see if they could be dangerous for the country. They are humans and they are going through dangerous things in there country and i think every body deserves a chance and a piece of a free land and safe like US. And i think to keep humans safe is a humanity duty because we are all equal we are all together and i think every body deserves a safe place because if i was in there position i would really beg god to get me to a safe place.…
Change in Canadian Policy To quickly summarize, all three countries condemn torture, but all three countries commit torture to some degree by finding loopholes in their own policies to justify their actions. With the US, it is by narrowing the definition of torture, Israel circumvents its policies by using the necessary clause, and Russia simply ignores its own policies as there is no system in place to hold the government accountable for its actions. The question then becomes whether or not Canada should either modify its policy or adopt a torture policy more similar to the three countries, or continue to preserve its own policies. To start if Canada adopted any practices similar to any of the three countries it would cause international…
Did you know, since the year 2011 over 250,000 people have died in Syria due to the extremely dangerous conditions of the country? Americans should open their arms to these refugees and let them into our country. These people offer no threat to us, by turning them away, were encouraging the act of terrorism and it goes against our beliefs as Americans. One reason the people should let refugees in the country is that these people offer no harm to the citizens of America. There are a lot of people fleeing from their country because of the living conditions and how unsafe their home is.…
Is it right to say that countries only send their worst people to the United States? Definitely not, because it is not fair for a group of people to be classified based on the actions that a minority of people take. In society, there will always be good people and bad people and that does not make an assumption for the United States. The so-called "Americans" are not 100 percent crime free, they do have people among themselves that commit a horrible crime. In the end, it is easy to assume things when one has not lived or gone through…
The social construction of ‘boat people’ who arrive in Australia is affected by a tripartite process involving the press, government policy and the Australian population. The media represents the refugee experience through manipulated facts to engender certain responses from its audience. Headlines such as Unstoppable flow of asylum seekers and Navy on high alert as armada threatens use words such as “swelled”, “unlawfully” and “fake” to incite a negative association with refugees. Piers Akerman, reporter of Powerless to stop an invasion of boat people uses “them” and “we” to create a metaphysical distance between refugees and the Australian population.…
In South Florida, refugees are being pushed away from South Florida due to a hurricane which is destroying their homes and are being pulled toward Georgia because they have the resources, shelter, and safety they need. On August 30,2017- September 15,2017 there was a category 4 hurricane that was 80 miles wide and had 155 miles per hour winds that hit South Florida. There was major flooding, homes were being destroyed as well as their land, and people were even dieing. This is causing the people living in South Florida to migrate to other cities, towns and countries outside of South Florida. One source wrote “Mandatory evacuation orders are in place for parts of Miami-Dade County, Broward County, Palm Beach County, Brevard County, and Monroe County.…
Immigration Policy Imagine being at home and enjoying the peace that comes with being isolated from other people and then someone else comes into it without prior notice. This is similar to immigration but instead of a house it is about people entering into the United States uninvited. It may seem unreasonable and unfair at the beginning because of privacy and power reasons but it can also be beneficial.…
This is outrageous, I can not believe my eyes and my ears. Are we in America? Is this happening in America? This should be happening in other countries like Afghanistan, not in America. This voice is not the voice of Bruce, this is not the voice of most of our neighbors, families, loved ones, colleagues, the Americans I know living across America, the First Lady, the President, me, as well as an Afghan-American refugee.…
We call America the land of opportunity. But we are not giving enough opportunities to refugees. When we allow refugees into this country, we're not giving them enough support to bounce back from the war zone they were once living in. In 1980 we let in 207,000 refugees into our country, but those numbers have dropped ever since. In 2002 we only welcomed 27,110 refugees into our country.…
America, The Land of Dreams America is a country of dreams; it is a land of freedom for those who are deprived of their liberty, and the land of the future for those who have no future. I left my homeland in search of safety and escape sectarian persecution. Many refugees come to America in order to be safe, have a better future, and have the right of freedom. A large number of Arab refugees are shocked when they arrive to the country of Uncle Sam, due to many opportunities, that can make you successful in your life.…
Countries have a moral obligation to protect the human rights of refugees. Refugees are people who have been forced from their countries within reasons varying from political unrest, persecution, and war; refugees are people who have been stripped of their human rights. To live in such dreadful environments is a direct violation of Article Three from The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “the right to life, liberty and security” as well as Article Twenty-two, which is “the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation” (The United Nations 1948). Take for example the story of Yusra Mardini, a refugee: somewhere along the coast of Greece and Turkey, twenty people are crowded on a tattered boat, trying to reach asylum across the Mediterranean Sea. All the sudden, the motor begins to quiet.…