My name is Grace Lin and I am a 14 year old girl from South Vietnam. I grew up in a small village with my parents and 2 sisters while my country was under attack. We tried to escape the war in our country several times but we were never successful until finally we got onto a small boat headed for Malaysia. There were 34 of us ’asylum seekers’ on board and after only two days we ran out of fresh water and had to depend on fruit to keep us hydrated. We were crammed and I had a constant fear that I
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Integration or assimilation of migrants in society? Which policy is best for a country to adhere to? By the different migration flows and globalization it is hard to deny; the European society is becoming a multicultural society. Many residents of the EU have a foreign nationality or have (grand) parents of foreign origin and cultural and religious diversity has increased. How are these newcomers supposed to behave‚ and what is expected from them? The question that will be addressed in this
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Migrants as activist citizens in Italy Published on openDemocracy (http://www.opendemocracy.net) Migrants as activist citizens in Italy In 2010 and 2011 migrants behaved like activist citizens throughout Italy‚ initiating a new cycle of struggles in the crisis of neoliberalism. Their contestation of an exclusionary‚ racialized and competitive model of society could become a goal shared by migrants and nationals alike. ‘We will be remembered’; whoever wrote this on the wall of an abandoned
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Intergenerational Transnationalism: 1.5 Generation Asian Migrants in New Zealand1 Allen Bartley* and Paul Spoonley** ABSTRACT This paper explores some of the issues associated with the nature of contemporary transnationalism and the particular experiences and strategies of a specific cohort of migrants‚ the 1.5 generation. Based on a study of East Asian migrant adolescents to New Zealand‚ we argue that the experiences and strategies of this generation differ from those of their parents‚ the original
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forces such as discrimination may have an impact‚ it is essentially the individual’s decision to belong. This is shown throughout the two poems ‘Migrant Hostel’ and ‘St Patrick’s College’ by Peter Skrzynecki‚ and the film ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ directed by Kate Woods. Peter Skrzynecki’s ‘Migrant Hostel’ reflects his own personal experiences as a migrant in Australia. The uncertain nature and impermanence of the Hostel creates both a metaphoric and literal barrier to belonging. The juxtaposition
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country Culture is generally accepted way of doing activities in a society which includes beliefs‚ symbols‚ values‚ behaviour and social organization. Migrants adopt and mix with new culture since culture change in inevitable. There are certain arguments for maintaining one’s native culture in a new country. However‚ it is a defended that migrants should adopt the host country’s culture. This essay will consider the arguments for retaining or not retaining ones culture in the new country. To begin
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Women under the Spotlight Women as Migrant Workers Criticisms against quantitative analyses have accentuated the lack of agency given to migrants by reducing women as numerical values. To remedy this‚ studies have incorporated stories from migrant women. The results portray a paradox; on the one hand‚ participation in the labor market has become liberalizing for female workers. Increased employment prospects (from unpaid work) became a source of personal development and empowerment (Asis‚ Hoang
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Jessica Norris Persuasive Speech Speech Outline Specific Purpose Statement: To Persuade my audience not to speed. Introduction I. When speeding you will eventually meet a cop or the grave. II. Speeding is a cause of many car accidents and I am here today to tell you the fines and result statistics of speeding. III. I have done extensive amounts of research and talked to cops about speeding therefore I am qualified to give this speech. IV. Everyone has either seen a car
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bond with place. I believe I have learnt that belonging is the most basic human desire‚ a part of the human condition. In order to achieve true belonging‚ however‚ many feel the need to belong to a particular place. In Peter Skrzynecki’s poem Migrant Hostel‚ and in a feature article in the Sydney Morning Herald titled All at sea in a leaky boat‚ the concept of belonging to self as a human desire is explored through displacement. Displacement is a fundamental
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concept through the analysis of the following texts: Migrant Hostel‚ Feliks Skrzynecki written by Peter Skrzynecki in the Immigrant chronicle and the TWO other related texts “Skins” directed by Anthony Fabian and the documentary “Bully” directed by Lee Hirsch. All four texts explore modes of belonging‚ not belonging and the statement above. The first text‚ Migrant Hostel‚ is a reflective poem about Peter Skrzynecki’s experience in a migrant hostel in Parkes‚ Western Australia. Skrzynecki describes
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