Advantages And Disadvantages Of South Sudanese Refugees

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The aims and objectives of this review is to evaluate the views of the South Sudanese refugees in ACT to discover their challenges. The aim of evaluation is to capture attention from the perspective of participants in services delivery for South Sudanese refugee’s residing in Canberra. The assessment will use difference way to collect information of challenging issues from South Sudanese participants. The investigation will find out what barriers limited their ability to be integrated into Australian way of life. How the ACT government coordinate service delivery to their families and community members as whole in Canberra experiencing various disadvantages. These influencing factors are highlighted in as ability to access renting and affordable housing in the private or public housing systems. The ability to access education and employment opportunities that lead to long term, financial stability and future careers. The ability to access health issues …show more content…
The research examined the challenges facing South Sudanese members, which has created the dislocation of so many of their family members to other cities in Australia. The essentials of South Sudanese culture, language and South Sudanese experience as refugees in settlement have also been discussed concisely. The research has reviewed in order to highlight the effects of trauma, stress and frustration from war zone alteration and to show how resettlement in Australia has affected the refugees. This discussion was followed by the theory of conceptualisation and operationalisation of government to deliver services to refugee communities, one consequence of which is education and employment stress are the key factors driven their economic prospective. Finally, the possible effects of housing on families, marital relationships and cultural effects were all

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