Afghan refugees

With age come many challenges, especially for refugees. Combined with the pressure to assimilate to a new culture, the trials of old age put the mental health of refugees at serious risk. At time when more than 59 million people are displaced worldwideㅡthe highest on record according to UN reportsㅡless than half of those individuals have received refugee status. Based on data from the United Nations refugee agency, around 3 percent of the refugees coming to the U.S. are 60 years old or older.…

enterprise. He is the man behind the “Afghan Girl”,…

because the Afghans like the Italians and the Americans, never have and never will succumb to fear, regardless if fear echoing from a terrorist, a dictator, a ruler, or a prime minister. As of this moment, war is engaged on the borders of Afghanistan and Pakistan. But this is besides the bombing that killed fifty, and injured fifty or more near Kabul a few days ago. In the past four decades, the loss over two million innocent and guilty afghan lives, and eight million Afghan refugees. I am sure…

As weather in the Aegean Sea has taken a turn for the worse, turning wind-whipped sea corridors into deadly passages for thousands of refugees crossing from Turkey to Greece, an overcrowded boat taking on water as it approaches the Greek Island of Lesbos. The boat is carrying around 150 refugees, mostly Syrians. It apparently begins filling up with water and starts leaning in the middle of the sea. A Greek Fisherman rushes with his small boat to the sinking refugee boat. He ties a rope to the…

belt, and an old mahogany vest. His unkempt facial hair was turning gray, but he didn’t look any older than forty years old. “Would you like some tea?” I would ask every day. His response was always “No,” the first time. Having been raised in an Afghan household, I knew I had to ask three times before it would be polite of him to accept. As soon as he would say “yes,” his hands would start trembling, his eyes would wander, and he would start stuttering. “Back in Iran, I was tortured in a…

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 in Europe "Leaving one's home country is never an easy to decision, but is especially hard when it is fraught with uncertainty and there is no guarantee of a successful outcome," according to Meera Dolasia of Dogo News. Many Syrians, Afghans, and Iraqis are leaving their homes for improved, more protected lives. Over 2,500 people have passed away trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea on unsafe boats to get to Greece and Italy, fleeing from countries with raging wars. Countless…

think of the troubles that the Afghans themselves have faced. With his novel The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini not only provides an educational and eye-opening account of a country 's political chaos, but he also creates sympathy…

Several million Afghans had either fled to Pakistan or Iran for refuge or had become internal refugees. Millions had died from starvation or from the bombings and raids. Homes, property, food production, and irrigation systems were destroyed, leaving the country in ruins. Land mines set up during the war still…

had to play a role in battling terrorism and attempting to bring democracy to Afghanistan. About 40 JTF2 assaulters were deployed in Southern Afghanistan without the Prime Minister’s approval in early 2001. As a result of the war, over 2 million Afghans ended up being forced from their homes and lived as…