Refugee Resettlement Research Paper

In the battle of immigration, America is its own enemy. By abandoning and victimizing its refugee allies, America is no longer supporting its own. Anna Husarska has spent “two years of interviewing refugees"; with the notes that she gained through this process, her arguments concerning America’s ingratitude towards refugees are supported (90). In Husarska’s journal, “Exile Off Main Street: Refugees and America’s Ingratitude,” Husarska emphasizes how common America’s refugee abandonment is and the multiple temporary and rash reactions to the upset.

For the podcast, I interviewed Lina Abdulnoor, with the intention of exploring the intricacies of refugeehood by analyzing Lina’s refugee experience. Lina lived in Iraq with her family until they began receiving death threats due to their religious beliefs. Convinced that they needed to flee the country to survive, they left Iraq as refugees. After leaving Iraq, they settled in Jordan, where they waited two years until the U.N. to approve their request to move to the U.S. in 2012. Lina and her family initially settled in Virginia, where she experienced culture shock as she adapted to American culture and the English language. However, Lina did not feel accepted in Virginia; her experiences in the state led her to think that Americans treated her according to negative stereotypes of Iraqis. After living in Virginia for several months, Lina and her family chose to resettle in San Diego, California, which harbored a larger Iraqi population than Virginia did. Supported by San Diego’s Iraqi community and various refugee organizations, Lina flourished, and she currently studies at UCSD while holding a stable job.

In the battle of refugee resettlement, America is its own worst enemy. By abandoning and victimizing harmless refugees, America robs them of their chance at the American Dream. After spending two years interviewing refugees, Anna Husarska was able to support her argument that America is outrageously unfair to foreign refugees (90). In Husarska’s journal, “Exile Off Main Street: Refugees and America’s Ingratitude,” Husarska emphasizes how widespread and commonplace America’s refugee abandonment is, as well as how seldom America attempts to reconcile for it, and how poor it is at doing so.

The lives of refugees have had their lives turned “inside out” not just physically but also

The refugee crisis that plagues the world is often referred to as the Syrian refugee crisis, and Western countries are usually concerned only for the affect it has on them and their country. Yet the countries taking in the most refugees are the relatively stable nations in the Middle East that are closest to those in crisis, like Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey, not the wealthy nations most capable of supporting the refugees. These countries are often small and suffering their own economic and political woes, and struggle with the masses of refugees entering the countries. Various groups are working to raise money and support for these refugees, and other poor African and Middle Eastern countries are attempting to do their best, but without the help of the wealth West, the refugee crisis is not going to go away. A question has been posed to the nations of the world; are they willing to take in any of the millions of the desperate refugees?

Intro: Refugees face a far worse life than most people can imagine, and there is no easy way out for them. They first must get out of whatever dangerous place they are in, then travel long distances with almost no resources, and even if they do make it safely to the USA there is a chance they will be sent back or even put in jail. The refugee experience is defined by risks and belonging.

“To be called a refugee is the opposite of an insult; it is a badge of strength, courage, and victory.” This saying from the Tennessee Office for Refugees addresses the ongoing matter of refugees that has been growing continuously for decades, and is currently as serious as ever. The article Ten Borders exposes the many hardships refugees have to face everyday through the story of a young law student named Ghaith. Juggling between school and two part-time jobs, Ghaith soon finds his life in the war-torn country of Syria unbearable. As a result, through the help of his own brother and some smugglers he got in contact with through social media, Ghaith was ready to flee Syria and hoped to find a new life away from violence in Europe. However,

In this article by Dianna Shandy , “The Road to Refugee Resettlement,” we get the breakdown of why immigrants come to America and how. In the United States, the government resettled an average of 57,095 immigrants each year, but in re. There are many reasons of why people leave their native countries to come for a better opportunity. “The conflict in the Sudan frequently is attributed to social distinctions based on geography (north-south), ethnicity (Arab-African), and religion (muslim-christian) (The Road to Refugee Resettlement.

Introduction: Everyday hundreds of Syrian refugees are fleeing Syria escaping from various forms of persecution. These refugees are fleeing to neighboring countries. Because of its location, Greece has become a hotspot for refugees. In the past refugees who arrived in Greece would continue to migrate further into northern Europe. However since Macedonia has shut its borders to all immigrants, it has left several hundred refugees stranded in Greece without adequate housing and shelter. This has created a very heavy burden for small border towns that once operated as transit points. With winter approaching the concern of how to meet the needs of the refugees continues to grow. As weather conditions continue to worsen the current infrastructure

Recently, ISIS bombed and killed over a hundred people in Paris and other countries where Syrian refugees escaped to. President Obama has agreed to allow Syrian refugees into the United States and provide the refugees with homes and free food. Refugees whom we were just fighting against. There's something wrong with this picture. President Obama should not be allowing Syrian refugees into the United States because it increases the chance of having another terrorist attack and we should be giving our own citizens that are homeless what the government is willing to give non citizens.

In southern Europe this year alone 103,000 refugees have crossed over the Mediterranean Sea and into Europe. That evens out to about roughly 600 refugees a day. Blowing last year’s total out of the park with a seemly tiny total of 34,000. The dramatic increases of refugees entering Europe have none the less added a very large burden on Europe’s migration troubles. Those 103,000 have risked their lives to be free from their home countries mainly on stolen, flimsy, and makeshift boats. In Greece alone 48,000 refugees have on the shores, the UNHCR is stepping up in Greece and southern Italy as a response to the population increase and the refugees arriving illegally. In late May in one weekend over 6,000 sub-Saharan Africans arrived on Italian shores from fishing boats and rubber dinghies from Libya, bringing the total refugees arriving in Italy to a large sum of 54,000.

The war in Syria has been going on for around four years, and now the Syrian refugees who have become homeless from the war have been hoping to be one of the four million other Syrians to be accepted into another country which leads me to the title of this article, "US plans to accept ten thousand Syrian refugees next year." This article falls mostly under a government issue because of the cost to allow the refugees to stay in the US. This article was reported on September 10, 2015.

My reaction to the VICE video on Syrian Refugees was that it saddens me on how these innocent civilians have to flee their home countries and basically leave everything behind to find a new life somewhere safer. The video brings a lot of things into perspective, specifically the hardships of every pitstop in the journey to safety. It seems that even though refugees move to one country, they must move onto another one because they see that the conditions are not even habitable. For example, they migrated from Turkey, to Greece, Macedonia, and eventually Germany. Although these are locations that are far away from the violence of ISIS, it is a never-ending cycle of being disappointed by a lack of resources and facing discrimination from Islamophobics.

We can help migrant refugees by giving them a chance to start over and find a new life. We can make houses and donate. By giving them jobs, they can earn money and by food, water, clothes, and sometimes even shelter. To help them get a fresh new start, all we have to do is give them a small push and they can do amazing things.

Refugees and immigrants can struggle with one of the key factors in adaptation, which is language. Not knowing the language can make everyday life in their new country extremely difficult. One example is Til Gurung and his wife. They are refugees from Bhutan, and had an especially hard time with learning the language. Ha, from Inside Out and Back Again, by Thanhha Lai, also had a rough time with learning the new language. She struggled with trying to balance her old life and new life, and with that came the language challenge. Refugees and immigrants, such as Ha and Til Gurung, are troubled by not knowing the language of their new country, until they learn the language, and can successfully adapt to their new society.