Essay On Being A Refugee

Australia is said to be a multicultural and multiracial country. So why can’t we, as a country and as a nation, say yes to immigrants fleeing from a different country? As immigration to Australia is supposably apart of our history and it would be wrong not to continue on with the actions of our ancestors.

Josef is a Jewish boy that doesn't want to go to a concentration camp so he and his family board a ship so they can make it to the safety of America. Isabel a Cuban a girl in her country full of riots and plague with the dread fact that they are going to get deported they board a raft to America. Mahmoud a Syrian boy with his country full of violence him and his family set out a trail to Europe.

A migrant is someone who is moving from one territory to another without any pressure from war or violence. Anyone who is freely moving from one place to another can be considered a migrant.

An asylum seeker is a person who has fled from his or her own country due to fear of persecution and has applied for (legal and physical) protection in another country but has not yet had their claim for protection assessed. A person remains an asylum seeker until their protection ‘status’ has been determined. The definition of a refugee is someone who quickly leaves their home or country, because of some sort of harm or disaster. An example of a refugee is a person who seeks safety from religious persecution by going to a new country. The first arrival of boats came in the 1970’s, these people were seeking asylum after the Vietnam War. Most of the population left the country and fled to other Asian countries some seeked refugee in Australia. From 1976 to 1981 2059 boat arrivals were recorded, the arrival of asylum seekers in 1989 heralded the second wave of refugees. Over the next 9 years boats arrived mostly from Cambodia, Vietnam and Southern China. Towards the late 1990’s a third wave asylum seekers, mainly from the Middle East.

Some people believe that Universal Refugees are different people that deal with different hassles. However, that is not true. The Universal Refugees understand each other and deal with the same struggles such as immigration, hardship and assimilation. When entering a new country, refugees most likely will deal with hardship from just entering the country to actually living in it. Most of the hardship will come from racism from other citizens of that country. Refugees will also have to find their way of assimilating to that country to seem “normal” to others.

Millions of refugees are forced to flee their homes every year. They leave everything behind. Have you heard of the escapees on the news before? These are people who are forced to flee their homes for many reasons. Mostly, it is due to war or natural disasters. At first, these refugees feel displaced and seem lost in this “new world.” They will face many challenges that turn them inside out, however, if they can overcome this, eventually, their lives will turn back again. In the story,Inside Out and Back Again, by Thanha Lai, there is a young girl named Ha. She lives a good life in Vietnam, except, that Vietnam has been taken over by the communists. Ha, like most refugees, had her life turned inside out and back again. This means that Ha’s life changed drastically and is trying to come back to normal. For Ha’s life to truly come back again, her character will need to be like what she was in Vietnam. In Vietnam, Ha had more confidence, she was more rebellious, and, most importantly, Ha still had hope. She will need to grasp these traits again for her life to truly come back again. Ha, just like many other refugees, endure

When forced to flee their homes, refugees are faced with having everything to having nothing. Making friends is hard, especially if you are a refugee. People might think that you 're different and treat you unfairly. If refugees are able to make new friends they can try to forget the past and have the normal life they want to live. Refugees have to up and leave everything from their homes and come to a new country. Without the knowledge of the language or culture, it’s hard to make friends, making people unwilling to become your friend. Giving refugees a chance and helping them you can learn that they are just like you and everyone else. After leaving everything behind, refugees children, such as Ha, have to deal with bullying from peers and adapt to a new school culture.

All over the world there are people running from oppressive and dangerous places. A brutal civil war has been raging in Syria since 2011. Fighting between various armed forces and ethnic groups in Burma over the last several years has displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians. The president of the

was from January 30, 1933 - May 8, 1945. It took place in Germany where Hitler the leader of the

This comprehensive annotated bibliography discusses about the poor mental health of the refugees and asylum seekers under detention in developed countries. This sits within the “Social Work Practice in Mental Health” and “Social Work with Refugee Survivors of Torture and Trauma” categories of Social Work fields of practice (Alston and McKinnon, 2005) and uses sources from Australian publications on these issues.

Freedom is a short, powerful word we take for granted every day. It’s hard to fully appreciate freedom when we’ve never had it snatched away from us. We get to choose our jobs, where we live, what we eat. If we are unhappy at work, we have the freedom to quit and find work elsewhere.

Imagine being verbally or physically abused in a new place that you know little about because your skin isn't white or because your hair isn't the same color as everyone else's. People would be laughing, pointing at you and you haven't the slightest clue as to why so. This isn't even the beginning of what refugees endure. Refugees are people that leave their home because of war or other not natural causes that could possibly lead to death for themselves. All refugees have to endure certain hardships that are very real, not natural, and most importantly - not deserving, just like Ha, a young refugee from Vietnam because of the Vietnam War from the novel Inside Out and Back Again. All refugees experience traumatic and life-changing events that flip their lives "inside out" such as discrimination but after much time spent trying to adapt and accept their new lives, they realize that they can combine new customs with new old ones and

To begin, when becoming a refugee, many people feel inside out because they are faced with many problems, one of which is discrimination. "We suffered in our country Bhutan because we didn't speak the language or practice

A general term that refers to the movement of refugees and internally displaced people as well as people displaced by natural or environmental disasters, chemicals or nuclear disasters, famine, or development projects. And also forced migration includes a number of legal or political categories. All involve people who have been forced to flee their homes and seek refugee elsewhere. Majority of forced migrants flee for reasons not recognized by the international refugee regime, and many of them are displaced within their own country. It can also be called as displacement and deracination. Trafficking refers as the recruitment, transportation, transfer,

This paper will critically analyse the contentious issues in the refugee process that of their application.