Later, Thok was given the opportunity to reunite his family in a refugee camp in the Sudan; however, life conditions there were not good, and he travelled to Kenya to apply for refugee status. After two years of living in Kenya, he was given the opportunity to go to the U.S. Moreover, the famous photography of the Afghan girl also tells us the tragedy faced by Sharbat Gula and her family while escaping from Afghanistan due to the Soviet intervention in 1979 (Newman).
The Nat Geo Education Encyclopedia entry and Nahlah Ayed show us two more events that refugees have faced in the past two decades. The first one is the Colombian refugee crisis and the Second one is the Syrian refugee crisis, and of course, reasons behind these two crisis are different. Colombians left their country and travelled to Venezuela and Ecuador, fleeing the internal conflict produced by the illegal drug trade and the guerrilla movement known as the FARC. …show more content…
On the one hand, refugees who do not flee their own countries and travel inside their national boarders in order to avoid internal conflicts are known as Internally Displaced Persons or IDPs (Nat Geo Education Encyclopedia entry). The story of Thok took place in a region where the highest number of IDPs exist due to the Civil War between North and South Sudan. Oppositely, the second group of people not protected by refugee laws are the environmental or climate refugees. They usually leave behind their countries because their homeland is not habitable anymore due to natural disasters like floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, and disasters caused by humans like nuclear explosions, global warming, and soil desertification. Although refugee laws do not protect climate refugees, they usually obtain enormous help in form of money, food and first aid kits from other countries mainly because of the rapid broadcasting of news (Nat Geo Education Encyclopedia
The Nat Geo Education Encyclopedia entry and Nahlah Ayed show us two more events that refugees have faced in the past two decades. The first one is the Colombian refugee crisis and the Second one is the Syrian refugee crisis, and of course, reasons behind these two crisis are different. Colombians left their country and travelled to Venezuela and Ecuador, fleeing the internal conflict produced by the illegal drug trade and the guerrilla movement known as the FARC. …show more content…
On the one hand, refugees who do not flee their own countries and travel inside their national boarders in order to avoid internal conflicts are known as Internally Displaced Persons or IDPs (Nat Geo Education Encyclopedia entry). The story of Thok took place in a region where the highest number of IDPs exist due to the Civil War between North and South Sudan. Oppositely, the second group of people not protected by refugee laws are the environmental or climate refugees. They usually leave behind their countries because their homeland is not habitable anymore due to natural disasters like floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, and disasters caused by humans like nuclear explosions, global warming, and soil desertification. Although refugee laws do not protect climate refugees, they usually obtain enormous help in form of money, food and first aid kits from other countries mainly because of the rapid broadcasting of news (Nat Geo Education Encyclopedia