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    order to escape the hardships they are enduring where they live. Inside Out and Back Again is a story written by Thanhha Lai. She writes about a young girl named Ha‚ and her family’s experience as a refugee. Real life refugees’ stories are very similar in comparison to Ha and her family’s story as a refugee. One major experience Ha and her family are going through‚ as well as many real world refugees‚ is being forced to flee their home. “Since the war began two years ago‚ more than 200‚000 people have

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    What are the most precious thing in life that we should care about Childhood is the happiest time of a person’s life. When a child is born‚ a new life starts. By passing the years he/she develops the skills‚ learn from the experience and starts to explore the life as it is. Children are taken as innocent human beings. Some people remember their childhood as happy one‚ others may disagree.  In this century we can hear many sad stories about the life of a child. For example‚ some parents don’t

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    the communists in Laos. After the fall of Saigon with the communist victory‚ the Hmong people were targeted as the ally of American. So‚ the journey of seeking refuge began for the Hmong people. With the U.S. refugee resettlement policy‚ some Hmong people came to the United States. The refugee resettlement was an act of humanitarianism but also an experience of American discrimination. This is because as America open its door to welcome the refugees‚ the media portrayed refugees in a stereotypical

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    Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the Mona Lisa and has been called "the First World’s Third World Mona Lisa". The image became "emblematic" of "refugee girl/woman located in some distant camp" deserving of the compassion of the Western viewer. In early 2002 the subject of the photo was identified as Sharbat Gula an Afghan woman who was living in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan during the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan when she was photographed.

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt‚ the United States president at the time‚ was under both domestic popular pressure and pressure from officials in his own cabinet. He issued Executive Order 9417 on January 22‚ 1944‚ and this order established a War Refugee Board (“The United States and the Holocaust: Rescue Attempts”). This board was established to rescue Jews and provide relief for victims of the war and it also appointed people that deemed qualified for the rescue missions (Glick 40). The departments

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    loss and separation explored in remember‚ a mother in a refugee camp and poem at thirty nine? The three poems Remember written by Christina Rossetti‚ A Mother In A Refugee Camp by Chinua Achebe and Poem at Thirty-Nine by Alice Walker share the same negative theme of loss and separation. Remember explores the pain felt by losing loved ones. A Mother In A Refugee Camp emphasizes the relationship between a mother and her child living in a refugee camp. Poem at thirty nine is a poem about the reminiscences

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    statement. Before we continue‚ let’s first understand the meaning of “refugee.” According to the Macquarie Dictionary‚ a refugee is “one who flees for refuge or safety‚ especially to a foreign country in a time of political upheaval‚ war or persecution.” Refugees can enter Australia in one of two ways: The first way is by normal legal channels. This is done by making a request to the Australian Government to be granted refugee status and once granted‚ entry into our country using the correct documents

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    Most of what we know has been through books or media where the hardship of refugee life is depicted as horrifying‚ desperate‚ and unresponsive. In They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky‚ one of the main characters‚ Alepho depicts life as a refugee while giving us instances of experience where we are shown his loss of innocence. Through the text Alepho gives us a first hand account of his experience with being a refugee and how he has matured‚ transitioned into adulthood‚ and through all of this

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    an asylum seeker is someone who is seeking international protection from a well­founded fear  of being persecuted because of their race‚ religion‚ nationality‚ and conflict but whose claim  for refugee status has not yet been determined. Their refugee status application is processed  by the UNHCR or a government that is a signatory to the United Nations 1951 Refugee  Convention. An asylum seeker must be outside of their country of origin in order to lodge an  application for protection. The United Nations estimates there are 42

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    Due Process Violations Central American families encounter overwhelming obstacles to due process in detention; for example‚ the process of expedited removal places families who are eligible for asylum at risk of deportation. Although refugees in removal proceedings have the right to legal aid‚ nearly 40% of all detention facilities are located 60 miles or from a metro area (Human Rights First‚ 2011). Because its difficult to access legal services‚ roughly 84% of women and children face their removal

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