The Happiest Refugee Essay

The arrival of refugees can contribute to foster the economic growth of Australia (Hugo et al., 2011, pp. 42). For example, traits of refugee population such as the young age, the rise of childbirth and their geographical incorporation into the metropolitan areas as has been pointed by the researchers as one evidence of how they can adapt to the labor market and help to develop the economy…

People constantly immigrate to the United States with the ambition of gaining an ameliorated lifestyle. They arrive with the willingness to work, adapt to the American culture, and increase the amount of jobs. This postulates that permitting immigrants into the United States has its advantages, however Gene Callahan in his article “Immigration, Yes—and No: A Trimmer’s Case Against Open Borders and Closed Minds,” argues contra advocates for “open borders.” He avows that the United States faces a…

According to the Gospel, we must welcome the stranger. Catholic Social Teaching requires Catholics to care for and stand in soldiery with immigrants, both authorized and unauthorized, including unaccompanied immigrant children, refugees and asylum-seekers, those unnecessarily detained, and victims of human trafficking. The Catholic Updated Guide to Faithful Citizenship, emphasizes that people have the right to freely migrate. The Catholic Bishops of the United States and Mexico acknowledge…

percentage of these migrants, and recent terror attacks has stirred fear of these refugees to the American people. Current political elections have focused heavily on Syrian refugees and some states have even gone as far as vocalizing their anti-refugee and anti-Muslim policies, refusing to allow refugees to settle in their borders. Refugees currently on American soil face racism, isolation, and a lack of resources. A large number of refugees…

An integral question throughout Canada’s history has been who is and who is not permitted to come into the country. In The Making of the Mosaic, authors Ninette Kelley, a legal and policy analyst for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and Michael Trebilcock, a university law professor, effectively compile legal and political answers in the pursuit of resolving this challenging question. Divided chronologically into eleven sections spanning the beginnings of the French Colony in…

For the last few years, a refugee crisis has swept through Europe. Due to the fighting of insurgent groups such as the Islamic State and its affiliates and allies as well as the opposing rebel groups and allies, masses of displaced civilians have simultaneously flooded into Europe and surrounding Middle Eastern countries. Through this memorandum, I will look at the theoretical underpinnings of refugees and immigration policy and the current U.S. Policy on Syrian refugees. The policy that should…

“[b]y the end of 2014, Germany had provided protection to the largest number of Syrians (approximately 67,000)” (Ostrand 271). Kate Connolly interviewed a Syrian refugee living in Germany. The ensuing article discusses the first-hand account of a resettlement success story of Firas Alshater. Alshater is a 24-year-old Syrian refugee living in Germany. The civil war broke out when Alshater was studying at university, and he quickly joined the rebel forces. One way he contributed to the…

Introduction According to the U.S. Department of State, less than 2% of Syrian refugees are adult males capable of being combative. That’s a miniscule amount, but considering we have only taken in roughly 10,000 of them (which is only .0002% of Europe’s 4.8 million), we could be doing quite a bit more. Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as just letting millions of Syrian refugees in. Doing so would result in a problem similar to Europe’s, increased crime rates in countries like Germany and…

Question: Did Syrian refugees enrich our cultural growth into a more diverse and positive outcome and have they enhanced our influence in the World? If so, How? Immigration laws have resulted in a situation where many illegal immigrants live and work in the United States. It is an important issue that has been blown out of proportion by the media and politicians. Here in the United States, legal Syrian refugees have enriched our cultural growth in a diverse and positive way and have enhanced…

There is a deep history of exclusionary state policies and laws in regards to immigrants in general, which profoundly inform the sentiment towards asylum seekers today. The United States for example had the Chinese Exclusion Act from 1875 to 1882, and the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act which limited the total number of immigrants per year (Rose-Redwood, The United States: Historical and Contemporary Migration, 2016). These two examples show the racialized and restrictive immigration policies of the…