Refugee resettlement is a chaotic process, especially for those who immigrate to the United States of America and are not able to speak the English language. Even though it is difficult for many refugees to quickly adapt to the American culture, there is a magnificent program called The Partnership for the Advancement & Immersion of Refugees that will help many young refugee students.
The Partnership for the Advancement & Immersion of Refugees was discovered by several Rice University students that noticed the difficulties refugees were facing when they arrive to the United States of America. In response to the difficulties refugees were facing, the students formed the organization to ease refugees struggle. The group formed The Partnership
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Holm says “PAIR helps refugee youth through educational mentoring programs that aim to empower students to make healthy, informed decisions as well as foster a sense of community and belonging. Our mission is "to empower refugee youth to navigate American society, reach their academic potential, and become community leaders". I have been a program manager at PAIR since January 2015; first managing the after school programs for middle school students, and then the after school programs for high school students. I also manage PAIR's summer programs for both middle and high school students. PAIR is helping refugees, specifically refugee youth, because there are few resources available for these students. Adults are able to obtain support from the resettlement agencies, but often times there are not comprehensive programs to help support students with cultural adjustment and navigating the school system. PAIR aims to fill that gap. (Holm 2017). Up to 3000 refugees arrive in Houston each year making it the number one destination for refugee resettlement nationwide. Approximately 30% or 500 of these arrivals are children and youth of school age (5-24). This percentage has remained steady in recent years, creating a sizable population of youth in need of special services in the Houston area, most especially in the Houston and Alief school districts. Newly arrived refugee youth face a variety of challenges—social, emotional, and educational. All experience dislocation; many have experienced trauma. They must adjust to a very different culture and lifestyle, often isolated from other students, facing prejudice and conflicting cultural demands. Most arrive with deficiencies in their education and limited English proficiency. Challenges to academic success make them susceptible to school failure and other risky behaviors. Yet education beyond high school is now essential to success and well-being in
Having been ripped from their world by violence and chaos, refugees find themselves adrift in a completely different realm. To clearly observe such a struggle, look no further than Clarkston, Georgia, and the works of author Warren St. John. In John’s novel Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman’s Quest to Make a Difference, the challenges of refugees in Clarkston are chronicled and encountered in many ways, including discrimination and bias from other races and cultures, inadequate English education in the past and present, and the desire to belong in a world refugees are not sure they fit
Immigrants must overcome many barriers to succeed in America. First, migrants frequently must learn a new language. Inability to communicate is a critical barrier for accessing the health care system (Urrutia-Rojas, Marshall, Trevino, Lurie, & Minguia-Bayona, 2006). Second, the processes of work and schooling for themselves and their families can be daunting. Lastly, immigrants use the established social network of longer duration residents for reference and knowledge (Nandi, Galea, Lopez, Nandi, Strongarone, & Ompad, 2008). For purposes of this report, there are three different types of immigrant: legal, undocumented, and refugees or persons seeking asylum. All three types of residents want to succeed and achieve their personal dream.
The term government policy is any cause of action implemented by the government to change a certain situation and to tackle a wide range of issues in all areaslikefinance,education,statewelfare,immigrationlaw(https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/government-policy).For the purpose of this essay, I will be talking more about government policies in relation to refugees and asylum seekers and its implication for social work.
Did you know that every day several hundreds of people are forced out of their home causing them to become a refugee? The universal refugee experience of fleeing and finding a home is difficult since the refugee doesn’t know or understand the language that well and can sometimes be viewed as an outsider. According to the article, “Children at War” by Arthur Brice, Amela Kamenica a teen refugee is forced out of her home due to the war near her hometown. In the novel, Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai, the main character, Ha is treated like an outcast since she doesn’t know the American traditions and ways. Ha is a ten-year old girl, who has to flee Vietnam because of the war between North and South Vietnam. It is dangerous and unsafe
The life of a refugee is not just a life of trials and ordeals, but also has rewards for those who pushed through the pain.
These issues also include poverty and limited or no access to education, training, mental health and health care resources. Refugees also face persecution and are unable to return to their home in their native country (Villalba, 2009). Mental health counselors need to understand the impact of trauma on their refugee clientele, as they may include physical torture and mental abuse in nature. According to Sue and Sue (2013) counselors will need to address the most salient concerns of refugees, which include safety and loss. The possibility of being, or having been, mentally abused and physically tortured has an impact on their ability to stay in the hosting country. Counselors will be dealing with post-traumatic stress from their client. Equally important is for the counselor to assist the refugee in understanding issues of confidentiality. For Muslim immigrants and refugees, counselors should consider national policies during the counseling process. For example, the two Sudanese sisters’ were able to resolve their religious practice of wearing the hijab and securing employment in a beneficial way. As an advocate for the sisters and other Muslim refugees, it would be helpful to provide them access to resources that educate them in antidiscrimination policies that can protect them against hate crimes and legal resources that can help them seek asylum. In essence, culturally competent practices for counselors working with immigrants and refugees begin with understanding their worldviews, as well the national and international legal issues that confront their
War is the main cause in the creation of child refugee. It is also known that war is the primary cause of child injuries, death and loss of family members. Being born abroad in unknown places, also play a role in depriving children of a legal home. The trauma of being a refugee child can cause detrimental changes in the mental health of a child and over all development. This article focuses on the impact of the Syrian armed conflict on the mental health and psychosocial condition of Syrian refugees’ children. Also, this article explores the struggles of several refugees’ families and their children. It was determined that mental health services can be key to restoring basic psychological functioning to support resilience and positive coping
Today, there are over 65 million refugees in the world. That means that one in every 113 people in the world is a refugee. To many, this number may seem extremely alarming. Many refugees struggle to find a place to resettle. America, along with other developed countries, has often been considered dreamland for these displaced people, making many wanting to get out of their war-torn houses and camps. Refugees immigrating to America have been displaced from their original homes, face frustrating immigration policies, and have difficulties starting a new life in a new land.
Although refugees face many challenges outside of school, there are ways teachers can make their academic life easier. Many teachers “misinterpret learnt behaviors pertaining to survival in refugee camps or in the migration process itself as behavioral difficulties” (Due, Riggs, Mandara 170). When teachers make assumptions about student behavioral issues based on their “personal observations and assumptions,” it leads to “error of communication diagnosis of the kids” (Usman 112). Neither teachers nor parents should assume they know something about refugee students based on their personal opinions. Some teachers believe that they are unable to relate to their students’ families. As a result, “cultural mismatches” occur between students’ home
Post-Traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) develops after a traumatic or life-threatening event such as war, assault, or disaster. In most cases refugees are exposed to and carry these experiences of hostility, violence, racism, discrimination, and isolation with them to their new environment (Kulwicki,A., & Ballout,S., 2008). The resettlement period for refugees is found to be extremely critical because it inflames existing symptoms of PTSD in addition to increasing them.
Few people in Cambodia attended schools in rural areas. Khmer (Cambodian language) was a foreign text to many of these individuals. Without money school was unavailable, specifically if you could not pay for tuition, books, supplies and transportation. These schools were all located within the city. This was all the leading cause to many Cambodian refugees arriving in the U.S. unable to read or write their own language. Once resettles, some have no learned the proper skills in small groups. The professional fields, along with attending formal education in Cambodia and teaching, would sometimes result in getting private English instructions. They received many resources that made other people angry with the group. Being Cambodian gave them more rights than others. They got the lowest cost for housing, and received an abundance of aid. A newly established Office for Refugee Resettlement with branches in every state took responsibility for overseeing refugee resettlement. This occurred after the 1980 Refugee Act was passed. Resettlement officials intended to separate the refugees between Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, in order to minimalize the financial, educational, and social services drains on any single vicinity. Where the refugees would end up was determined by many factors. In the eyes of the Office for Refugee Resettlement, most importantly, was the location of existing voluntary service agencies. These Agencies that the Office for Refugee Resettlement would contract to carry out the work of finding sponsors who were able and willing to house them temporarily, or help them find housing, provide money for food, aid in finding jobs. They would also, sign them up at community service agencies and in state welfare programs. Second, ORR tried to find out whether the refugees had relatives or friends already in the country who could help them adapt to life here. Lastly Office for
A refugee is defined as an individual who has been forced to leave their country due to political or religious reasons, or due to threat of war or violence. There were 19.5 million refugees worldwide at the end of 2014, 14.4 million under the mandate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), around 2.9 million more than in 2013. The other 5.1 million Palestinian refugees are registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). With the displacement of so many people, it is difficult to find countries willing to accept all the refugees. There are over 125 different countries that currently host refugees, and with this commitment comes the responsibility of ensuring these refugees have access to the basic requirements of life; a place to live, food to eat, and a form of employment or access to education. Currently, the largest cause of refugees is the Syrian civil war, which has displaced over 2.1 million people. As a country of relative wealth, the United States should be able to provide refuge for many refugees, as well as provide monetary support to the refugees that they are not able to receive.
a topic of great debate for many years, both in the UK and across many
Nationality is between a country and a person, sometimes the people who are no relate to any country, call stateless. Also some of the stateless can be refugees, these two groups of people is care by UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). Nationless is a very big problem; it may affect more than 10 billion people in this world. Everyone in the world can be having their human right, but some activity in country only able nationals to participate, for example: election. Also much of the stateless didn't have their right, they may never get the ID of the country, just get in to jail, losing the chance of education and health services or can’t get a job (UNHCR, 2014). This article is talking about what power of the nation states has to manage issues and effect the beyond national boundaries. By the refugee Convention (1967), refugees can be applying t person who is fear to persecute by race, religion, nationality, or the member of a social group and government. In this person is don't want himself protect by that country who fear, also don't want to return to that country. By the divide of UNHCR, there are four types of people, which they care: Asylum-Seeker, Stateless people, Internally Displaced People and Returnees. Asylum-Seeker refers to the person who is finding the international protection, not all the asylum-seeker final can be a refugee, but all the refugees begin is an asylum-seeker. Stateless people refer to who are not relating to any country and national. Internally displaced people refer to the people who are forced to leave their home because of the wars, or some human problem, and getting in to another country from the border. Returnees refer to the people who return to their own country, they are supported by UNHCR when they arrive (UNHCR, 2014). The nation state is a country; they have the political legitimacy from serving as a sovereign entity. A country is mix by culture and nation that mean a nation state may in the same place. Much of the nation state is forms by a people with a polity
I have developed a personal standpoint a personal standpoint to demonstrate that I can identify, consider and form a personal opinion on a global issue.