Female Refugees Research Paper

On Female Refugees and Motherhood

When discussing refugees, most people typically picture individuals fleeing from a country due to either a political or environmental crisis/ disaster and that eventually they will find a safer place to reside. Scholarly literature and the western media often only show the issues that men face as refugees and not what women, mothers, or even young girls face. Not only is it essential to include the plight that many women face when fleeing conflict from war-torn countries or natural disasters but it is important to continue to keep them in the narrative of refugee crises all over the world in order to possibly find alternative solutions to these problems. Additionally, adding women to the narrative of the plight

Before a refugee can be allowed entrance into another country, they must first be considered individuals who are of special resettlement concern to the United States and meet the criteria of a refugee. The criteria of a refugee refers to an individual, fleeing their home country based on a well-founded fear of persecution, for the reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group (UN Refugees.org). Additionally they must complete pre and post-screening interviews under the cooperative agreement with the US Department of State and a USCIS officer. Furthermore, multiple security checks must be completed as well before a final decision is made, and if granted resettlement, upon arrival, refugee applicants must undergo a medical exam. After all of this, individuals who have completed the entire application process are then assigned to a resettlement agency which assists them with housing, finding employment, and other services when they arrive to the new

New American Pathways, a refugee resettlement agency created on October 1, 2014 through the merger of the Refugee Resettlement and Immigration Services of Atlanta (RRISA) and Refugee Family Services (RFS), serves as one of the largest refugee resettlement agencies in the southeast region of the United States (NewAmericanPathways.org). Each year, New American Pathways routinely assists 5,000 refugees in gaining the necessary resources to be successfully resettled in Georgia, and particularly in Clarkston, GA. Two weeks before I was assigned to a refugee woman to teach english, as a requirement of the volunteer program, I attended a volunteer orientation. During the volunteer orientation, I learned that the majority of their clients were resettled in Clarkston, GA, since it is an affordable area to live as well as not being too far away from the New American Pathways office in Atlanta,