The Happiest Refugee Essay

What is a refugee? A refugee is someone that is forced to flee their country because of war, persecution, or natural disaster. 71,000 - 90,000 refugees come to the U.S. each year. Ha, in the book Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai, is a ten year old girl that has to flee her country of Saigon in Vietnam. Ha and her family are refugees that have to flee Saigon because of the war. Ha and many other refugees have to flee the only place they know as home. Refugees lives turn “inside out” and…

Refugee Crisis Refugees are a worldwide problem today. There are no region or continent lacks refugees. People caught between danger at home and loss of identity in a strange land. Today, more than 19 million people forced to flee their homelands because of the war, persecution, and oppression; an estimated 42,500 more join them daily (Taub, 2015). They seek safety in strange societies where they may be isolated from the rest their family. Recent examples include Syrians who were forced from…

Intro (237) Children in immigration detention centres have been a prevalent issue since 1992, which has affected the lives of many that are fleeing their countries to seek a better life. This issue affects the common good in unfathomable ways. Some of the happenings in the detention centres affect the dignity of not only the children in the detention but the adults too. The children have either been witness to or experienced some form of violence or abuse whether it is sexual, physical, or…

Young children are being held against their will as Asylum Seekers to live in detention centres across Australia. They show signs of mental illness, a lack of education, and physical harm brought on by the lack of human rights being allowed in these detention centres. By allowing young children to be kept for excessive amounts of time within these detention centres the common good is not being served. These children are being denied basic human rights like an education, safety, medical attention…

safety of the minors. Refugee lawyers took the case to the High Court (Plaintiff M70/2011 v. Minister for Immigration and Citizenship and Plaintiff M106 of 2011 by his litigation guardian, plaintiff M70/2011 v. Minister for Immigration…

each day in March, has begun to take a toll on the country’s southern neighbour Uganda, host to roughly half of the 1.6 million people forced to flee their homes. Uganda is feeling the neglect. The country has one of the world’s most compassionate refugee policies… In February, it declared a famine in parts of the country, affecting 100,000 people and threatening 1 million more” Link: These statistics stand to show that the urgency is now. If the United States stands to help humanity in its…

“Displaced: Introduction” Jake Silverstein, The New York Times Magazine, 8 Nov. 15, Children all over the world are affected by war, taken from their homes and forced to grow up. Currently, thirty million children are displaced, most recently the media has centered around the problem in Syria and yet, displacement is in Afghanistan, Iraq, Eritrea, Libya, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Myanmar, and Bangladesh. The New York Times would like to share the stories of the displaced children all over…

The Worst Refugee Crisis Hey, have you ever heard of the worst refugee crisis? There have been a numerous amount of refugees in the past, but this one is definitely one of the worst, since World War II. What caused this refugee crisis? How do the migrants travel from their war zone to the refugees? How do refugees live their life? Here are some serious problems Syria had during refugees. Syria is the country that is having a war. There was a religious conflict around Syria, people wanted to…

Everyday there are more and more people that suffer from the conditions in their countries and have to become refugees. The refugees suffer from the events that have transpired in their countries and the tragedies they have seen and been through on their way to a better life. The refugees suffer both physically and mentally and the one issue that is often overlooked in physician evaluations of refugees is the state of their mental health. The main focus in mental health care is whether or not…

Equity and Diversity Refugees from Iraq Under (Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951) Australia defines a refugee as a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. Throughout this essay the selected group of Iraq refugees within Australia will be researched to find out their demographic, key features of the group, historical perspectives, policies and practices, issues this group face and programs that effectively…