Short Story Of A Young Refuge

After reading the article, “Shattered Lives” by Kristin Lewis, Dania faces living as a refugee outside her country.The challenges that she faced are when they were in World

I was able to compare my own experience of moving from Guatemala to his journey towards the United States. The reason I mention health disparities is because it greatly impacted our lives. For example, I lived with a supportive family, inside of a safe neighborhood, and given an opportunity of excellent education. Luis, on the other hand, was involved in a gang affiliated family, an unsafe neighborhood, and given low quality education. The opportunities I was given was the chance of getting a free degree from a college in Roswell, I was taught good morals such as independance and determination, a full time job with benefits, and although it’s indirect, the health disparities I was involved in is what helped me to achieve these opportunities to a positive future. The same applies to Luis, but he managed to overcome the obstacles that came with the terrible environment he was involved in and managed to become a good example for not just his family, but others who read this story who may be influenced. Perhaps one day I could write a story of my own about my experiences in order to reach out to my generation, just as Luis

Each year, thousands of Central American immigrants embark on a dangerous journey from Mexico to the United States. Many of these migrants include young children searching for their mothers who abandoned them. In Enrique’s Journey, former Los Angeles Times reporter, Sonia Nazario, recounts the compelling story of Enrique, a young Honduran boy desperate to reunite with his mother. Thanks to her thorough reporting, Nazario gives readers a vivid and detailed account of the hardships faced by these migrant children.

What is one story of a young migrant or refugee that you heard?Are there any ways the story opened your eyes?

1. What is one story of a young migrant or refugee that you heard? Are there any way the story

In Sonia Nazario’s Enrique’s Journey, readers are able to view the undeserved hardships migrants, such as Enrique, undergo, all in search of one thing, freedom. Enrique is a 17 year old Honduran boy, whom was left lonesome when his mother decided to take on a dreadful journey to better her family. After many years without his mom, Enrique goes on a perilous mission in order to reunite with his mother, Lourdes. This expedition involved extremely challenging and life threatening missions, which many migrants face daily. Once they arrive to the United States they realize that leaving their culture and families behind was all for a hostile country in which survival is not definite. Little did they know that living in the U.S would not be stable

Have you ever meet a refuge or know someone who escaped their country because of war? When refugees flee their home they need to stay in refugee camps where they get food and shelter but they can't stay there for ever. Refugees go thru many things when they come to America, one thing is they don't know english and they struggle to communicate. Another thing is that the kids might get bullied because they come from another place or of there religion. Ha life is similar to the universal:Refugees life because she was a refugee and she got bullied in school because where she came from. Ha’s life and the universal:Refugees life have been affected wich that make there life inside out.

More than half the refugees around the globe are under the age of 18, even though children make up 31 percent of the world’s population. Refugees are people who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disasters. The stories that will be covered in this essay are called “The Teacher Who Changed My Life,” by Nicholas Gage and the second novel is “Letter to a Young Refugee from Another,” by Andrew Lam. These stories have many differences between each other but they both left their country to America. What if you had to flee your country?

Luma Mufleh, a Jordanian refugee explains the feeling that she and many other immigrants feel directly after moving to the United States. “It's kind of hard to believe that you belong when you don't have a home, when your country of origin rejects you because of fear or persecution, or the city that you grew up in is completely destroyed. I didn't feel like I had a home. I was no longer a Jordanian citizen, but I wasn't American, either” (Don't Feel Sorry for Refugees - Believe in Them). Like many other refugees, she got stuck in between her new and old life, not feeling like she belongs anywhere. The loneliness that many experience is extreme because they have no connection to their old home, but know no one to connect them to their new one. Many immigrants, including Beatrice Ziaty experienced the distaste that their new neighbors and fellow community members felt toward the new immigrants that had suddenly moved into their town. In her first couple weeks in Clarkston, Georgia, Ziaty got robbed while walking home from work one night. “The incident robbed Beatrice of the hope that her new home would provide her and her family a sense of security. She became obsessed with her boy’s safety”(31-32). This incident popped the perfect bubble that she was living in and showed her the reality of the United States, and how the perfect ideals of America do not exist in the way that she pictured it. This feeling of unwelcomeness was also felt by Albert, a refugee from Uganda when he experienced racism because of his skin color. “I thought everyone would be nice, loving and caring, but everything changed when I got here. Racism, discrimination and a lot of things changed my expectation” (Hirsch). The racism that he

The moral of this story is that so many families and children cross the border and risk their life for a better future here in the United States. To have better jobs, better education for their children. These families left everything to come to the U.S despite owning their home and having good jobs back home, but they wanted a better future here in the U.S. for their love ones. Alma Rivera leaving her house so her daughter can have better education, Arturo Rivera leaving his construction cite that he mange to come to the U.S and work even hard for his daughter who is disable and have better education, Celia Toro leaving her country because it was going through a tough time and coming to Delaware with spouse and two children, and now being

The US government decided to resettle Bhutanese refugees. This was a tremendous opportunity for my family and me but it also brought about serious challenges. After we were resettled in the San Diego, California area, language barriers and culture differences caused my parents to become financially and socially dependent on my siblings and me. I then chose to take a leadership position and obtained employment to sustain my family and me financially.

The transition from childhood to adolescence presents challenges for all youth. However, it is even more challenging for newcomer youth who must integrate into mainstream America. The Refugee Women’s Alliance designed a variety of programs to assist newcomer youths with their process of integration and support youth ongoing self-exploration and transformation. I am one of the few volunteers at the Refugee Women’s Alliance (ReWA), a nonprofit organization that provides resources and services to assist refugee and immigrants’ women and their families. ReWA’s primary goals are to improve employability, promote acculturation, increase language proficiency, and most important of all, creating a safe and family-oriented environment for

The main reason for choosing this topic was that I was inspired by numerous news articles about children who are independently trying to seek refuge for their families, from war-torn cities they would travel hundreds of miles to other countries pleading for support, hoping that due to their youth some officials would be discouraged from turning them down.

When I was young I remember moving cities and I thought it was going to be the end of the world for me. One of the thoughts that always went through my mind was what if I do not fit in? or will I be able to make any friends? Luckily for me I was able to speak English and I knew I could communicate with people if I had to. This was not the case for Cambodian refugees when they moved to the United States because the Khmer Rouge was attacking Cambodia. Thousands of people moved to the United States and many of these people were kids who did not have a saying whether they wanted to stay or come with their parents because they could not take care of themselves. Many of these kids are now suffering because they fell into the wrong crowds and committed a crime when they were young and due to the antiterrorism and death penalty act they are now being deported back to Cambodia, which they know nothing about, and some of them do not even know how to speak the language. I will be talking about the Cambodian kids that were affected by their parents moving to the United States and how the antiterrorism and death penalty act has affected some of them.

At first I did not know where I was, what he was doing here or why he would want to be here. It took me a few seconds to put it all together, and once I realized I felt terrible. He had walked to the city hall where they were doing counseling for refugees. It had never occurred to me that he was one. I questioned myself asking "Should I have known?!?!?" "Could this really be true?!?!?" I waited outside an hour or two until the session was over, then I walked in as everybody was walking out, hoping that the New Kid would not see me. Inside was a twenty year old man, packing up his papers, and shaking his head slowly, as if going over the events that had just occurred. I took up my courage and talked to him, trying to find out more about the New Kid,