Refugee camp

Clarkson, Georgia is a small town which could have been described as a neighborly, and old fashioned southern town. It’s a place where kid’s played baseball, everybody knew their neighbors, and everyone spoke English. This was before the mid-1980’s became a large resettlement location for refugees, because of affordable housing, and access to jobs in Atlanta. By the year 2000, the census showed that one third of Clarkson’s resident were foreign born officially classifying it a super diverse…

148731 No Home, No Problem? Times are changing at a more rapid speed than ever before. With a fast-paced, globalizing society, people begin to lose ties to their home, their place of origen. In the personal essay, “On Going Home”, Joan Didion comments on her own personal experience when visiting her family and conveys her disappointment that the younger generations do not have a home to come back to; they lack tradition. The news article, “Gimme Shelter”, written by Corinne Purtill…

and emotional limits because they would have to be more independent. Well, in the book Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples, one girl, Najmah, has to live through all of these feelings in her devastating life. She has to travel to a refugee camp all the way in Torkhum, Afghanistan where she has to travel miles and miles by foot. Then she makes a decision to go to Peshawar where she may find her father and brother once again. Instead,…

The USA has been the ‘’safety’’ ground for thousands of individuals throughout the years. Thousands wanting to escape their home country from life-threatening reasons or other extraordinary conditions, such as escaping religious, racial, and political persecution or avoiding lack of economic. After the Great Depression, immigrates increased from a low 3.5 million to 9 million in the first decade of the new century. Most Immigrates worked with contracted laborers, and a majority grew cities,…

On Thursday, September 11 I attended a lecture by Todd Miller, author of the book “Border Pa-trol Nation.” Here are some of my thoughts on this lecture and how it relates to our class on international security. Mr. Miller gave a much generalized overview on the immigration problem and the southern border. Mr. Miller took exception with the description and popular view that the US southern border is porous that we are in a crises. Furthermore, the claim was put out that too much for border…

During the Vietnam War, conscription was prelevant within Australian society causing conflict society and challenging Australia’s stereotypical national identity. Conscription was a contributing factor to the Vietnam War moratoriums, as the lack of freedom and choice during this era, rallied large numbers of people against the Vietnam War. During the Cold War there were several stages of conscription for young men. It first started again in the 1960’s when in 1965 selective conscription was…

Children in Detention and the Common Good Children in detention. Those very words are probably enough to bring sadness to many people, regardless of how or why the detention came about. Despite this, many Australians hold views about adult asylum seekers that actually leads to the detention of children. Since 1992 it has been Australia’s policy that all non-citizens who arrive in Australia without a valid visa will be held in detention (Australian Human Rights Commission, 2015). As of June 2015…

the US. In both his address to the US Congress and the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), Francis calls for a special care and realizations of the struggles of migrants. In his address to Congress, Francis states “Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great challenges and many hard decisions. On this continent (America), too, thousands of persons are led to travel north in search of a better life for themselves…

The United States has always been the land of immigrants. Immigration in the United States has an extensive history old immigrants have gone, and new immigrants have appeared. Ever since the establishment of the United States, immigration laws have been put in place, reformed, and dismantled. To immigrate to the land of freedom and opportunities has become a dream for millions of immigrants every year from all walks of life. The staggering numbers of immigrants migrating into the U.S every year…

Andrew Lam’s book, Perfume Dreams: Reflection on the Vietnamese Diaspora, is a collection of personal essays that documents Lam’s quest and struggle in finding the right identity as a Vietnamese American. At the age of 11, Lam fled with his family to America, during the ending years of the Vietnam War, as war refugees. This sudden exposure to a new environment, tore Lam’s past perception of who he was , created the identity dilemma that Lam struggled through his lifetime. Throughout the book,…