Refugees

The United States gives migrants from Cuba special treatment that no other group of refugees or immigrants receives. It begins with the so-called “wet-foot, dry-foot policy” that puts Cubans who reach U.S. soil on a fast track to permanent residency. The government initiated the policy in 1995 as an amendment to the1966 Cuban Adjustment Act that Congress passed when Cold War tensions ran high between the U.S. and the island nation. Under the amendment, when a Cuban migrant is apprehended in…

sending an informative letter to the president of the United States as a means to publicly announce to the Obama Administration to hold back any executive decision to accept more immigrants. As governor he would petition any migration of Syrian refugees to the state of Texas because it would be dangerous to public safety as well as an insecurity challenge of intelligence for federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation. As a politician representing the state of Texas governor,…

comedic style with the tragic reality that refugees of war must face, and creates a story that allows the tragedy of the survivors of the Vietnam War to becomes accessible to a modern American audience. Director Jamie Castaneda and the American Conservatory Theatre brings this production to life in San Francisco, where a blend of technology, hip-hop, and an all-Asian cast crew brings justice to a story often untold. The play mainly follows two refugees who manage to find love despite their…

health cannot be achieved if the maternal health of refugees and migrant women is neglected. Relocation of these women to areas with usually low mortality rates (developed countries) might cover up the adverse maternal health outcomes they are exposed to, due to disparities in access to health care. Hence particular attention should be placed on ensuring that the healthcare systems of receiving countries can respond adequately to the needs of refugees and migrant women. Countries such as Canada…

WWII and the Holocaust, American politicians avoided and actively ignored the harm caused to Jews in Europe, delaying help. Instead of allowing more immigrants and creating plans for refugees, the State Department, supported by the majority of Americans, ignored the problem and made it harder for immigrants and refugees to enter America. They were unable to escape persecution through quotas and excessive screening just because of anti-immigrant and anti-semitic views. Instead on focusing on the…

Indonesia and Australia is heated up since many negative issues that happened recently. It slowly started from the phone tapping of Indonesian President and its ministers by Australia and continues to tighten with the issue of asylum seekers and refugees. The issue has risen in terms of marine border between both countries caused by the blurry policies of asylum seekers in Australia, which caused Indonesia has to act accidentally to be responsible of the excessive asylum seekers who turned back…

Rohingya refugees have been coming to Bangladesh since the 1970s. In the 1900s, more than 250,000 refugees resided in refugee camps in Bangladesh. However, the condition of refugee camp is really horrible. The sanitation is very poor, and they are not able to get enough nutrition or any access to education. On October 2017, the UN reported that an estimated 603,000 Rohingya refugees has crossed border from Myanmar to Bangladesh. Most of the refugees live in the area where near…

ethical towards the people who are fleeing from their country to a country where they are safe and protected. Throughout this essay secondary sources such as websites will be used to determine whether the Australian government is being equally fair to Refugees and Asylum seekers. ‘A refugee is a person who has fled his or her country and cannot return because of a well-founded fear of persecution due to their race, religion, nationality or membership of a particular social group’ (NSW…

War is sometimes the main reason for people skedaddling their homes. Before war or other catastrophe, refugees had good lives, they had everything that they needed, good clothes, houses, food, and financial progress, but after war their lives got twisted ‘inside out’, they had to skedaddle their homes. In Inside Out And Back Again page 1 stanza 2, it says, “Every Tet we eat sugary lotus seeds and glutinous rice cakes. We wear all new clothes even underneath”. In ‘Children of War’ by Arthur Brice…

As a role model country, United States has always opened their doors for the migrating peoples and refugees. But when it comes to Syria, we are pulling our hands back by just limiting their flow into the America. The things that is bugging us is their religious appearance which can be connected to different inhumane acts happened in the U.S. and worldwide. Their appearance of being Muslim refugees is the root cause of the problem and government is not willing to take any risk for the safety of…