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    Affirmative Action and Refugees of Color: Starting the Conversation Dorian Brown Crosby Janita Bah ABSTRACT African Americans are the typical group that comes to mind when the words affirmative action are mentioned. Although white women were the initial benefactors of the policy, the most publicity surrounding its usage has come in the applications of African Americans and other marginalized groups into institutions of higher education. One of these marginalized groups is refugees.…

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    Center for Congenital and Structural Heart Disease in Chicago in September 2014, which has given me a great experience in communication skills and helped me understand the healthcare system in the United States. I am currently an Internal Medicine resident at King Hussein Cancer Center in Jordan, which has a high level expertise and deals with highly diverse and complicated situations of Internal Medicine and Oncology. I chose this institution for my transitional year to gain more knowledge and…

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    Rohingya Conflict

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    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…

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    priorities such as sports, exams, and other school related activities, hence I became alienated from politics. As I grew older, my interest in political affairs was realized at school. It was mainly in the year 2007 when the Srilankan government was taking high measures to eradicate the terrorism in the country. The Srilankan Civil War was an ethnic conflict between the Sinhalese and the Tamils in the Island. The Tamils in North and East of the Island fought to create an independent Tamil…

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    Syrian Refugees Case Study

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    Workplace: Qualification Appropriate Work for Syrian Refugees in Australia Aims The purpose of this proposed project is to explore ways to integrate Syrian refugees into the Australian workplace and find them qualification appropriate jobs. Our long-term aim is to have refugees able to utilise job agencies and independently find appropriate work based on their qualifications, as well as establish a more cost-effective and generalised intervention for all refugees, where Australia can gain…

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    the radio.” It was the day the UN proposed the partition of Palestine, between Arabs and Jews. On 14 May 1948, the British high commissioner for Palestine left with his staff, and twenty-eight years of British administration for Palestine was ended. These events, led to a major conflict between two races.…

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    The Migration Act 1958

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    People who are forced their homes due to persecution whether individually or as part of a mass exodus due to political military, religious or other issues are known as refugees. “According to the Migration Act of 1958, (“Migration Act 1958”) children of parents who are classified as a refugee are given the same rights as their parents.” The aim of this paper is to identify and explain how The Australian Legal System does not adequately protect and enforce the rights of children seeking refugee…

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    Right now, only about 3% of refugees are Christian (“Facts about the Syrian Refugees”). However, restricting the small pool of 2,000 refugees to only Christians would essentially be admitting no refugees. Putting religious restrictions on an applicant pool would be ineffective and wrong. America does not have “religious tests..[to its] compassion” (“Press Conference”)…

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    Yspaniola believes that all children in the Dominican Republic should have access to education and full citizenship. They provide Spanish language literacy classes in Batey Libertad to students between the ages of 4 and 15. The students are arranged into six different groups based on age and ability, and this helps students develop literacy skills much quicker than in public schools. In addition to learning Spanish language literacy, Yspaniola focuses on skills such as emotional intelligence,…

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    Forms Of Immigration

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    forms of immigration in Europe and the reasons that immigrants are coming into Europe. Immigration has been happening for a very long time, and it will continue to grow in the future. According to the BBC, in 2015 more than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe. The majority of these migrants came from overseas but some of them came to Europe through Turkey…

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