The Happiest Refugee Essay

A refugee is a migrant, not by choice, involuntary, a victim, powerless to politics, war and natural disasters. Desperate individuals, fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters are fleeing their homes, leaving family and their most valuable possessions behind to board on dangerous and unsafe vessels headed for Australia. In doing this, it has created an uproar of panic and fear, and a massive social issue and debate in Australia about people seeking asylum. Has Australia forgotten that in 1951…

Regarding immigration, Senator Sanders’s presidential plan reflects upon the themes and central ideas shown in the poem, The New Colossus. In this case, that America is open for anyone everywhere. Bernie resolution states that, “ all undocumented people who have been in the United States for at least five years to stay in the country without fear of being deported”.(Enforcement, par 2.) Bernie will do so through expanding the DACA and DAPA, developed by our current president, President Obama.…

The other rationale deterrence measures is that they prevent futile deaths. However, drawing causal relationships between Australia’s policies and refugee mortality is an almost impossible task. While Operation Relex and Operation Sovereign Borders clearly reduced arrivals to Australian territory, their impact on the attempted journeys has not been transparently reported by the relevant government agencies. The claims of immigration ministers are accepted, however, these operations have slowed…

Adoption of the Paris Agreement at the 21st annual Conference of the Parties (COP21) has brought new attention to the detrimental effects of climate on communities all around the world. For the first time in history, all 196 countries committed to addressing global climate change. Building off of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the aim of the Paris Agreement primary is to “hold the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue…

Taking notes in most of my class helped me take notes during a conversation with a client at a fast pace. I do not talk much with clients when they came for their appointment, but I often speak with them on the phone. For current clients, I would say my name and the attorney that I work with. However, when I called a Hmong new client, I would introduce myself, and say the name of the organization in Hmong, if the client speaks a different language, then I would speak English as slow and simple…

perished in the waters. This shows their immense determination and their terrifying lack of safety, which demonstrates that fact that wherever these people have come from, there is absolutely no way that they would consider going back. In fact, Syrian refugee, Abu Jana, said, “I don’t think, even if they decided to bomb migrant boats, it would change people’s decision to go.” This highlights the horrific atrocities that are currently occurring in these nations. The argument of sending people…

refugees. According to the Religion News, Wax states , “Christians are to embrace the unparalleled opportunity to love neighbors here and abroad, and to showcase the beauty of the gospel that proclaims good news to the poor, liberty for those stuck in refugee camps, and a new life for those fleeing from oppression”. Evangelicals are saying that people need not to choose between accepting all refugees or no refugees, but through rigorous screening the country should receive refugees as it is…

Australia is considered one of the safest countries in the world. If this is so, why is our nation denying refugee’s access to come here when they are in desperate need for a safe haven? We pride ourselves on accepting all cultures and nations, helping them out as much as we can. But when it comes to asylum seekers, we become so ignorant about the topic that the majority of us show no empathy towards them. This is exemplified by current programs Australia has implemented which help with the…

America, the land where dreams become reality and freedom is infinite. This concept has been alive ever since the Pilgrims came over on the Mayflower. Immigrants from all over the world have been pouring in with dreams larger than life, attempting to get away from racial and religious discrimination. Immigrants, those who wish for a better life trying to escape poverty, come to a land that once was thought to treat all ethnicities equally. America is built on these principles of dreamland and…

for this and awarded by the vietnamese government. This mission was called the Passage to Freedom. On the ship he served as a doctor and he also was able to translate a little bit of French. Later he became in charge of the building and maintaining refugee camps in Haiphong. He was in charge of this till 1955 when the city was overrun.(Dooley, Thomas A. The Night) Thomas Dooley would write about his experiences so that people in America could see what it was like in the war torn area. He became…