Refugee

Every day thousands of people are leaving behind their home countries to move away for one reason or another. With each individual that enters into a new country, there are different challenges, new experiences, and new opportunities for them. Leaving behind everything a person knows can be very daunting and sometimes very difficult to assimilate to the new society. From young children into adulthood, everyone has had a desire to feel like they belong somewhere. The efforts to fit into a certain…

Introduction. Millions of people all over the world are forced to make a plan when it comes to living arrangements due to financial restraints or due to disasters. These forced arrangements become known as informal settlements. An informal settlement is when a large number of people construct housing units on land that they do not legally own so they have no legal claim to live there. Informal settlements have become problematic in mainly 3rd world countries. In places like Brazil and India…

The Unfair Treatment of Haitian Refugees compared to their Cuban Counterparts. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are more refugees today than ever before—and more than half of them are believed to be children. Most of these people have left their homes in search of better living conditions and economic opportunities. This is especially true for Cuban and Haitian refugees. Living in a forever-changing world, we have to start rethinking our old…

Ethnic enclaves are generally a result of ethnic minorities settling near each other to gain a sense of community, create networks, and a potential source of work enclave economy is built around local business started by immigrant entrepreneurs and creates employment for other ethnic minorities in the community (Hasmath 2016). In Light, Bozorgmehr, Der-Martirosian’s essay “Beyond the Ethnic Enclave Economy”, they define the ethnic economy as “ethnic simply because the personnel (owners and…

Thousands of people join our military and risk their lives to fight for their country. After many years of fighting in war soldiers are no longer who they used to be. When they return home they are looked at, treated badly, and are not given the treatment needed to recover. The struggles and obstacles these veterans face on their journey home and once they arrive forever face. In the epic poem, Odyssey by Homer, it shows the obstacles a soldier has to face on their journey. Odysseus and his men…

"There is nothing permanent in life except change. - Heraclitus" Nowadays, the Arab world in the Middle East is undergoing enormous change. Those changes, known as the Arab Spring, have resulted in a new outlook in many countries, like Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, and Libya. Recently, people living in Egypt, for example, made it their life’s goal to speak up against the corruption of their government or die trying. In fact, according to an Amnesty International report, during the protests of 2012…

Immigration is a contemporary problem that I would address given a chance. The reason for this is the fact that the world is currently grappling with what to do with immigrants and no one seems to understand the plight of these immigrants. Traveling miles and miles from their native homes to countries in Europe and America, these people have endured inhumane conditions in their traveling ventures and yet, our countries seem not to be welcoming. It is a rather unfortunate incident and it needs to…

The Bride, Groom, and 4,000 of Their Closest Unknown Friends Immigrants and refugees have been in the news for years, but the topic has heated up considerably in the past year. South American refugees have been flooding across the southern border of the United States with illegal immigrant Mexicans. They are often front page news, especially with the presidential debates going on. In Europe, migrants and refugees are dying in tunnels trying to get to England from France where they are stuck in…

The results of the study supported the predicted hypotheses. Firstly, the resumes which supposedly belonged to the Internally Displaced Persons received overall higher hiring recommendation scores than those that had the control locations specified as birthplaces. This shows that positive biases likely exist in favor of the IDPs; thus, the previous findings that positive biases exist in favor of disabled people whose disabilities were caused by external factors (Bordieri & Drehmer, 1986), can be…

Although the attacks on Syria started about two years ago, it’s still an ongoing violence that is very critical in today’s news. Because of how many attacks that happened and the degree of each, the people who escaped are facing basic need problems such as where they’re going to sleep and get their next meal. The United Nations has discussed this issue, and yet there are countries like Austria, Hungary, and Greece that decided to put up border fences to keep these survivors out. Instead of…