...English Essay: Anh Do’s story is a timely reminder of the plight of refugee in our country. Discuss the Happiest Refugee in the light of Do’s universal message about the suffering of human beings during times of war and the struggle to make a better life in a foreign country. The Happiest Refugee is a memoir written by Anh Do which was first published on the 1st of August in 2010. It is regarded as one of the most influential and well-received novels in the world of literature for its great insight on the life of refugees. The book provides a universal message to its readers about the suffering of human beings during wars and their struggle to make a better life in a foreign country. The Happiest Refugee is about Anh Do and his family’s journey for Vietnam to Australia during the Vietnam War in 1962; which was the longest war the Australia had been involved in. Due to the war Anh’s family and friends were forced to leave their country and come to Australia in search for a better life. Refugees often have to risk their lives on dangerously crude and overcrowded boats to escape life threatening circumstances and poverty and war in their nation. The Happiest Refugee provides reader with a n insight to a refugee’s life and demonstrates the circumstances and situation they must get through in order to start a new life. The Happiest Refugee is a memoir written by Anh Do in August 2010. It’s a story about the Anh and his family being forced to flee from Vietnam and come to Australia...
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...Date: September 30, 2013 UCI: 90724883 Application no.: S300444763 *90724883* Please quote these reference numbers when referring to this application. Dear Afifa Masood, *S300444763* This is in reference to your application for temporary residence. A decision has been made on your application. We require your passport to finalize processing your application. Passport requirements • Please provide your passport or travel document, with a copy of this letter. • There must be at least one blank page in your passport. • Your passport must be valid for the duration of your expected length of stay in Canada. • Please note that we cannot issue a visa beyond the expiry date on the passport. Your passport must be received by Citizenship and Immigration Canada within 30 days from the date of this letter. Failure to do so could result in the refusal of your application. Please ensure that a copy of this letter is included with your passport. To find out where to send your passport, visit our website: www.cic.gc.ca/submit . Thank you for the interest you have shown in Canada. Attention: The unique client identification (UCI) number in the upper left corner of this letter is your personal identification number. For your own protection, do not allow any person, other than an authorized representative, to use this number as it provides access to personal information on your file. Citizenship and Immigration Canada This message has been submitted to your MyCIC account. By submitting...
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...1. Introduction More than 100,000 years ago the first modern humans left Africa and began to colonize the world. Since then human history is also a history of migration. Migration has always been a strong impetus towards human development, these days however migration is often seen as problem or threat. Migration is defined as the permanent change of residence of a person or group. It is a natural social phenomenon. Humans have colonized the entire world and penetrated its remotest areas. Migration is taking place within very different contexts: f.e. military conquest, refugees, expulsion or enslavement. But migrants have also traveled in search of economic opportunities, new settlement areas or trade routes. Currently approximately 216,000,000 people are living away from their place of birth. This number equals about 3% of the world population. Analyzing the reasons for migration one distinguishes between push and pull factors - often both appear together. Push factors are circumstances in the country of origin that lead people to emigrate, for example poverty, war or environmental disasters. Pull factors are conditions in the destination country that make immigration attractive such as economic opportunity and political freedom. Overall trends By far the most immigrants live in the United States followed by Russia and Germany. The main countries of origin are Mexico, India, China and Russia. In proportion to the population Persian Gulf countries host the largest share...
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...A Customer Satisfaction/Baseline Survey was comissined by Techserve Plc to determine the response of customers to a new Computer Software ’Kensoft’ aimed at analyzing and monitoring progress overtime for refugee based programmes in NGOs in Africa. The purpose of the survey was to determine the pre-operation exposure conditions for the new software to guide in the focasting for the likely impacts once the new product is introduced to the market, including cost implication, projected profit margins and indicators for success. The new product ‘Kensoft’ is envisaged to cut a market niche for data management, analysis and for tracking changes and progress in refugee based programming in Africa. The influx of refugees in the last few years in Africa has been on the increase fueled by numerous clashes,civil unrest, and forceful regime changes through coups, terrorisism and wars. Unstable governments, dictatorial leadership and corruption has created an enviroment in Africa that can easily cause civil unrests and infighting which in many cases has led to internally displaced persons and refugees. The largest refugee camps are found in Kenya namely Daadab in North Eastern and Kakuma in Rift Valley, reports also shows that numerous state and non state agencies and organisations located in the two areas have pograms targeting refugees, however, data management is not systematic and scientifically controlled and when it is managed the process is highly selective and cannot be relied upon...
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...Introduction According to Schweitzer et al (2007) ‘In the 2002-03 program year, Australia granted a total of 12 525 visas under its Humanitarian Program ( Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, 2003). In keeping with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) guidelines, priority was given to the resettlement of people from Africa, with this group comprising 47% of all humanitarian entrants (Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, 2003). Humanitarian immigrants present higher levels of stress and socialisation problems when compared to other migrant entrants (MacLennan, 1997). A significant portion of humanitarian entrants have ran from circumstances involving great violence and exhibit trauma, economic turmoil, loss of family and social networks, and significant breaks from education or work (Kline &Mone, 2003). Refugees tend to have experienced war and famine (Adams et al, 2004) and these experiences have led them to experience substantially trauma, involving physical and mental torture, sexual abuse, and other distressing conditions (Neuner et al, 2004). According to Farwell (2004), experiencing trauma during war and economic troubles leads to their mental turmoil. Experiencing and witnessing violence is connected to an array of various deliberating psychological effects such as anxiety, depression, substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder (Silove, 2001). Psychological distress related to psychosomatic...
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...Communication is the process of transmitting ideas and information Chapter 11: Communication Communication is the process of transmitting ideas and information Chapter 11: Communication Communication is a way of swapping information and it also indicates our representative competence. I have learned many things from this chapter such as the different types of information and the importance of information in health promotion system. Communication plays a big role in my daily life. Therefore, to address individuals about health related issue communication is the key part. During my freshman year, I volunteered in Immigrants and refugee community organization (IRCO). The mission of this group is to support and assist immigrant refugees. The people that came there to get help do not know how to speak English. They only know few words such as greeting and introducing themselves. Therefore, in order to help them, we have to communicate with them in certain ways that they can understand. One of the methods we used was posters and educational movies. The movies were created to help them learn the English language. The above company also has a health promotion program for the immigrants. The people I worked with were mothers and teenagers. I have made posters about obesity and I used an easy process in order to image, words that are easy to understand. People learn in different ways. The ideas formulated by the message sender do not always match the thought processes of...
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...CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN SOCIAL WORK By Student's Name Course Code and Name Professor’s Name University Name City, State Date of Submission Q1. The effect of globalization has resulted in complex economic and social networking among people of the world. One of the main elements of globalization is the movement of people from one area to another area for various reasons. In most cases, people move to more industrialized and peaceful countries in search of better opportunities and safe environments. The 21st century has seen the increased migration of citizens of one state to another, a period termed as the age of Diasporas (Helman, 2007). The research will focus on immigrants, mainly asylum seekers and refugees with particular emphasis on the 72 asylum seekers from Lebanon who perished off the coast of Indonesia while heading to Australia. The research will address the plight of asylum seekers as one the most vulnerable populations. Migration to another country may be voluntary or voluntary. The involuntary migrants include asylum seekers, refugees, returnees ad internally displaced persons (IDPs). The primary cause of this category of people changing their location could be political upheavals, wars, natural disasters and poor states of the economy. The voluntary migrants migrate to other countries in search of employment and new ventures for personal growth. However, the involuntary migrants have multiple psychological, physical and social vulnerabilities due to their experience...
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...Ethiopia`s development from famine to economic growth The classic theory of modernization has its origins in the 1950`s, a post-war period which challenged strategists to investigate the problems faced by the underdeveloped countries, in their attempt to provide aid programs and technological assistance and promote long-term economic growth and political stability. Typical traditional societies were analyzed in the processes through which they should develop into modern social structures by following an unidirectional path similar to the ones already tested by the Western societies. Several factors that contribute to the development of a modern society (including technological, economic, social, political, military and cultural innovations) were illustrated in many studies of this theory. The complexity of outcomes was generally overlooked, making necessary more than just the classic theory for a proper analysis of a country`s modernization. Thus, the Harvard Project, the most relevant study on the social and cultural aspects of development, emphasized that an ideal model can`t be defined, as the modern personality corresponds more to a desirable plan of modern society than to the contradictory nature of modern reality. Therefore, I will further seek to determine Ethiopia`s (one of the countries severely affected by famine for the last years) development in its process of modernization. Ethiopia has been plagued by famine going back to the 16th century. While climatic conditions...
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...THE ROOT CAUSES OF MIGRATION Migration is the movement of people from one place to another due some reasons or factors such as poverty, better employment, food and better living conditions. In the olden days our great grandfathers migrated with their livestock and families in search of food and greener pastures for their livestock. In the modern world, migration has moved to another level where people migrate to different towns in search of better employment and generally better living conditions. Migration has however had many effects both positive and negative to the economic state of a nation. According to Timothy Hatton, there has been a mass movement of people around the world. He points out that over 55 million Europeans migrated to the New world between 1850-1914. (Hatton) One of the causes of Migration over the past 100 years is the emergence of Globalization. Globalization is the main root of migration. The tightening of political and economic ties between states has enabled thousands of people move from their permanent countries to other countries in search of better health care, job opportunities and others just move for adventure. For instance, the outflow of citizens of Africa to the rest of the world or the developed countries has been very high. To some extent, this is disadvantageous to the less developed countries. First there is increased brain drain where citizens from the underdeveloped countries move to a developed county where there are better facilities...
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...Being stuck in between a wall and rock for six days, escaping from your home country, and being hunted by another human being are all stories that have happened to these survivors. During "My Escape From North Korea," Hyeonseo Lee describes how she became free from her home, in "The Most Dangerous Game," Richard Connell describes how Rainsford survived being hunted by Zaroff, and in "Trapped," Aron Ralston describes how he survived being trapped for six days and amputating his arm. All of these people went through very tough experiences but in the end they all got away. Many people died doing the same things as Hyeonseo Lee during that same time but she survived, many others also died from being hunted by Zaroff but Rainsford survived, and if someone else was in that same situation as Aron Ralston they would not have survived as he did. Firstly, In "My Escape From North Korea," Hyeonseo Lee explains how she survived escaping North Korea where she grew up due to a huge famine. In paragraph 7 Lee says, "So I was living in constant fear that my identity would be revealed, and I would be repatriated back to a horrible fate, back in North Korea." Lee is explaining how dangerous it was to be leaving, she would be brought back to her country and have bad consequences. As well as in paragraph 8 Lee explains, "If anything seemed unnatural, I could be imprisoned and repatriated. I thought my heart was going to explode." Lee describes that she thought her life was over but somehow she...
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...according to their country of origin." While minor children are not supposed to be detained and housed in immigration detainment centers, due to lack of personnel and overwhelming numbers of children, many have been placed in detention centers where they receive improper nutrition, lack access to education and are sometimes abused by staff. The facilities themselves are often unsanitary and overcrowded. The LA Times reported that "a 4,900 square foot facility designed to hold 250 children, held over 500, who slept on dirty concrete floors and were only allowed to be outside for 45 minutes" (Carcamo). The migrant children crises has created outrage among constituents that support immigration reform, particularly for children who seek asylum or refugee status. Immigration officials have not been forthcoming with how these children are being handled and very secretive about the facilities and their conditions. According to the National Immigrant Justice Center, children in detention centers "needing medical treatment go unnoticed or ignored by staff," and many "experience weight loss, gastro-intestinal problems, and suicidal thoughts"...
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...all these things. He is also a refugee. Historically, conscientious objection has had a rather delicate place under refugee protection in Canada. Acclaimed international refugee law authority James Hathaway has said about conscientious objectors that they “… are neither refugees per se nor excluded from protection” (CITE). The difficulties are compounded by the sociopolitical nature of military desertion. However, there has been one point of general agreement in Canadian courts, it is that individuals who desert merely out of fear of combat or dislike of the military are not refugees (ZOLF, ATES); there has been preferential treatment...
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...In the tumultuous state of global affairs, the United States has been increasingly subject to criticism for their refusal to accept refugees fleeing genocide in the Middle East and North Africa. In the wake of the Trump Administration’s recent travel ban on persons entering the U.S from countries that primarily practice Islam, there have been a myriad of comparisons to when Jewish refugees were turned away from America’s doorstep and forced to a certain death during World War II. There is truth in this equivalence, but there is a dichotomy between the motives behind these genocides. The killing of civilians in the Middle East is to suppress political dissent and achieve religious monoliths, whereas the Nazi death camps had one motive; racial “purity.” The impact of the Nazi extremist ideology was calamitous as is the current in the Middle East, and led to numerous atrocities unmatched even today. One of these monstrosities was the disturbing Nazi experiments carried out on concentration camp prisoners in pursuit of exterminating other races and mass “producing” Aryan bodies, in addition to formulating a superior army than that of the allies. These shocking tests resulted in significant observations never accessed before because of the justifiable objection to human experimentation throughout human history. This has raised one of the most controversial and personal ethical questions of whether or not it is appropriate to use the data from these experiments which resulted in the...
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...Syrian Refugees; Why Canada Should Accept Them The sympathetic nervous system controls a function in your body known as the fight or flight response; associated with seeing a bear or being scared by a friend, the response then, within milliseconds, decides, whether or not to stay and fight, or run and escape the danger. We can see this on a global scale through current events today; imagine a place where democracy was stripped from one's hands, the government responded to peaceful protests with open firing and forcing millions out of their homes, would one's natural instinct be fight or flight? This is the complicated reality that many Syrians face, as they experience these tragedies in their civil war. Syrians who decide to flee rather than stay have unfortunately been extremely limited in their escape as many areas have restricted the number of refugees they will accept. The crisis calls upon great nations such as Canada to comfort the refugees in their disaster. Not only does accepting refugees speak volumes about Canada but also carries great benefits by demonstrating its willingness as a country to step up and illustrate their kindness and compassion, their role in the battle against ISIS, and encouragement of economic growth. Primarily, Canadians are stereotypically known for the word “sorry” and our courtesy towards others, which is a trait many take pride in. However, this has not always been the case for Canada; during World War II, when Hitler was slaughtering Jewish...
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...At times, it is certain that the majority of refugees seeking the ability to enter our nation are not only treated unfairly, but unethically with some of their most basic human rights being abused. With the significant growth of asylum seekers, it is important that the Australian Government does not overlook this issue, but instead reviews its policies in order to correctly align with the fundamental principles of family unity and refugee protection as stated by the United Nations (UN). Therefore, it must be recognized that many refugees are often mere victims of an underlying system beyond their control and only when governments begin to realise this, will the issue begin to subside. The United Nations (UN) was formed in 1945 shortly after...
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