undertake a journey to discover the life of a refugee. Their discoveries offered them a new understanding and reviewed their perceptions of refugees. Therefore‚ their process of discovery had made them to question their view of the world. “Go back to Where You Came From” is a social experiment that was on the SBS channel. In this reality show six ordinary Australians Raye‚ Raquel‚ Glenny‚ Adam‚ Darren and Roderick undertake a journey in the life of a refugee. The main purpose of this show is to build
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The Syrian Refugee Immigration Policy is one that needs to be reviewed- and quickly. The United States is known as the nation of immigrants. Our culture is very ethnically and culturally diverse. This diversity is something we pride ourselves on. However‚ recently there has been a great deal of debate and controversy on and over how many immigrants the US should allow into the country. These arguments have seen no resolution and just seem to keep getting bigger and intensifying. One very popular
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from‚ http://www.www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html Bureau of South Asian Affairs (2004‚December). Background Note: Afghanistan. U.S. Department of State‚ http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5380.htm UNHCR (2001‚September‚10) Afghan Refugee Statistics‚ http://www.unhcr.ch/news/media/afghan/stat0917.pdf UNICEF (2001) State of the World ’s Children 2001. Retrieved February 17‚ 2005 from‚ http://www.unicef.org/sowc01/pdf/fullsowc.pdf USAID (2005) Afghanistan‚ http://www.usaid.gov/locations/asia_near_east/afghanistan/
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http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2006/as-sa/97-557/index-eng.cfm Parent‚ Therese. “Refugee Policy : An Overview”. Canadian Points of View: Refugee Policy‚ 2009‚ P1-1‚1P. Canadian Points of View Reference Centre. Web. Mar 7‚ 2011. http://lcweb.senecac.on.ca:2056/pov/detail?sid=528a0bb0-e1f9-4cf3-bbff-31f3bfc6273e@sessionmgr11&vid=1&hid=18&#db=p3h&AN=28675070 Zhang‚ Xian. “Sri Lankan Tamils Seek Refugee Status in Canada”. Xinhua News Agency. Aug 29‚ 2011. Mar 08‚ 2011. http://news.xinhuanet
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through their journey for a new start‚ what makes Shire’s poems so mesmerizing is she is honest with her words and she is not afraid to not filter out any harsh imagery in order for her to deliver her point across to the reader. The struggle as a refugee was revealed in the “go home black‚ refugees‚ dirt immigrants‚ asylum seekers sucking our country dry” stanza‚ where shire takes the persona
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smart.” Earlier in the book‚ Ha is upset because in South Vietnam she was smart and reading high level books‚ but in America she doesn’t feel smart anymore. In this poem‚ she feels as if she has regained some of her smartness. It may be hard for a refugee to find home‚ but when they do they finally feel like their life is turning “back
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Fleeing from genocide‚ imperial aggression and civil war‚ only to be herded into camps or sent back to the country they were escaping‚ these asylum-seekers and returnees are part of a seemingly endless human tragedy. If it was originally a guarantor of refugee rights‚ unhcr has since mutated into a patron of these prisons of the stateless: a network of huge camps that can never meet any plausible ‘humanitarian’ standard‚ and yet somehow justify international funding for the agency. Like many of the un’s
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our image of a nation of immigrants. This country was founded on the backs of immigrants. In fact‚ Kristof points out‚ if it were not for the country’s longstanding policy of refugee integration‚ his father—an Armenian refugee—would never have come to America. Kristof ends his piece with a powerful exclamation that the refugee issue is essentially a test of our humanity. The nature of his emotional structure is deliberate and subdued; a far cry from the fiery rhetoric of his counterpart. Furthermore
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A few weeks ago I spent time speaking to family and friends about the Australian refugee crisis‚ upon asking them if they believe Australian wildlife should be offered more care as compared to refugees‚ I was shocked to discover that the majority of my close friends and family care more for wildlife than they do for refugees. If this is at all a representation of how we as a country feel about refugees and foreigners in general‚ I believe it is high time to widen our frighteningly narrow minds!
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home country‚ since the outbreak of World War II. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees‚ the outstanding world refugee total exceeded twenty-six million in 1996. Deprived of the protection of their state‚ often detached from their families and communities of origin‚ refugees are‚ by any definition‚ particularly vulnerable to violence. Refugee women and their children‚ along with the elderly‚ are the most vulnerable. Due to disruptions before‚ during and after flight (or whatever
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