Refugee law

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…

solution was to create hydration stations and a means for emergency medical care; I will not argue against these way stations, it is the humanitarian thing to do. However, these facilities would make it easier for these people to break immigration laws and could lead to even more illegal…

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…

Australia signed the 1967 Protocol in 1973 that enlarged the geographical scope of refugee resettlement beyond Europe with the United Nations Refugee Convention.The newly founded encouragement of non european migrants to Australia provided a safe haven for many Vietnamese escaping the Vietnam War, and millions of Cambodians escaping the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in…

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,…

The word “refugee” is been defined as “ a person who has escaped from their own country for political, religious, or economic reasons or because of war.” (Cambridge University Press, n.d.). Even though they are also considered as migrants, they cannot go back or stay in their country of origin anymore. Race, religion, politics, economics wars and natural disasters are reasons for people to becoming refugees. Moving to a new place causes refugees to face some difficulties, such as language and…

Those people closed their eyes in the dark-red coffins forever, and be putted together without any vitality anymore. We will never know what is the last thine in their mind. Miss somebody, or hate this world. Obviously, they are compelled to leave their hometown. Maybe their home was boomed by missile, maybe husband lost his wife, and maybe children’ parents have already died. As we know, civil disorder in Libya cause war, and it lead to hundreds of thousands of people lost their home. Many…

the influx of people entering the country illegally. The struggle and length of time it takes to obtain refugee status, and the prominent danger these people are in, often leads them to enter the country illegally. Illegal Immigration policy must be a priority for the United States, as it affects the lives of men, women and children who are victims of violence and corruption worthy of refugee status, that deserve to…

Therefore, tt is agreeable by many that society are becoming greatly concern over the overwhelming arrivals of migrants that is happening in all part of the world. The striving of migrants over recent years has been an eye opener to the people around the world that their efforts were brought forth for the community to provide assistance but should they? Eakin and Annan engaged the issue and pointed out that assistance towards these people is needed but in various ways. Eakin asserts concern…