Month: April 2019

Amar becomes the defacto leader of the group of 13 refugees in the apartment. He negotiates and speaks for the group. The group talks about the countries they want to live in. Most people want to live in sweden and germany, mostly scandinavian countries. This is hard to achieve with the Dublin Regulation…

Refugees have to meetup in a location and are then picked up by the smuggling organization. Amar arrives in Alexandria with several other immigrants. They are dropped off at an apartment complex where the smugglers pay the homeowner 3x normal rent and are told to stay the night there.

Amar Obaid is in Cairo with his family. They are originally fron Syria. He used to figbt for the resistance against Assad but he chose life with his family and started a small furniture import business in Cairo. Public opinion took a turn against Syrians after the military junta took control. Amars family cannot go back to Syria so he decided to search for a new home in Europe.

Usually the men of a family undertake the journey for asylum. They try to reach the desired country and get their families there with them through other means. Its hard for refugees to reach their desired countries due to the Dublin Regulation which decrees that asylum seekers have their asylum claim registered in the first country they arrive in.

The middle east is collapsing and with its collapse come thousands of refugees with it. Bashar al-Assad has fractured Syria and its people. The book “Crossing thr Sea” by Wolfgang Bauer talks about the syrian refugee crisis. He follows refugees and tells their story.

The average citizen in America has to understand that the Syrian refugee crisis is not going to be an uncommon event in the next few decades. With the looming dangers of global warming that will bring severe drought and floods which will cause famine across the globe, certain populations will be forced to seek refugee in neighboring countries. The average US citizen has the power to alleviate these future crisis by voting consciously for better immigration and refugee reform.

www.forbes.com/sites/unicefusa/2019/02/08/for-syrian-refugee-children-poignant-reminders-of-home/#3b3def432088.

This article focuses on different individual Syrian refugee children and what reminds them of their home in Syria. They share what their favorite toy is, a memory they hold on to, their favorite blanket. After experiencing such traumatic violence and chaos, these children hold on to what reminds them of a more peaceful time. Each of these children who are sharing their stories in this article also share what they remember about the first time they heard an explosion, or gunfire, or people screaming. Many of the Syrian refugee children in this article share that they don’t remember much about what Syria was like before the war began, all that they remember is being scared and seeing the people around them die. These children who have kept a memorable item will always connect the item to a memory they have, good or bad.

• The North Korean leaders pose the greatest threat to the women in their society, especially the women in the lower classes. The reason behind them being in such low classes is because of their song bun. A song bun is pretty similar to the caste system, but the higher your song bun is, the higher rank you are in the society. The threat is the way that they are treated in society. In North Korean societies, women donʻt get as many opportunities and canʻt even eat at the same table as their husband or sons. During dinner, women eat at lower tables compared to the men and also eat corn meal while the men eat rice.

Syrian, to be or not to be a Refugee

Wolfgang Bauer, a man who knows what it’s like to be or not to be a Syrian Refugee!
Wolfgang Bauer is a free journalist, whos has extensive knowledge in Islamic Studies,
Geography and History. He has reported for the German magazine Focus, Zeit Dossier, Neon/Nido, Greenpeace Magazin, Geo and National Geographic. In 2011 he was awarded with the European Award for Excellence in Journalism Columbus. In april 2014 along with a college of his posing as english teachers, by choice embarked on a journey that most would have considered suicidal, if not at least crazy! There journey took them into the lives of Syrian refugees, giving them a direct experience of the smuggler gang brutality, process of detainment and deportation, crossing the sea in boats that mine as well been made from paper mache and toothpicks, and the politics of underground black market  human trafficking through Europe. So i recant, Syrian, to be or not to be a refugee…
If  it weren’t for great writers like Wolfgang who are willing to have a living experience of what they write about i wouldn’t be able to talk about what i’ve taken from his book Crossing the sea what I feel is important about  Syrian Refugees, what they go through, and in my opinion, most importantly what happens to them afterwards.  

First i’d like to touch on a couple of things I find interesting and important…. First probably the single most dangerous part of the whole journey, crossing the sea, since the ocean is an unpredictable force of epic proportion, well swells that have been know to swallow up navy vessels in the blink of an eye, and winds that have capsized and destroyed so of the most formidable seanearing ships. This is where the smuggler gangs come into play, some of the most disgusting people in this story. To take money from people in such context, where they have worked incredibly hard to get enough money together to embark on a live altering journey across the sea, putting there lives at risk, the wellbeing, and possible future of their families name and existence. Then to be put in categories based on the amount of money they are able to give, only to wind up in the same boat, exposing the outright inhumane mentality of these human traffickers is just apahling. Sadly enough though under the circumstances these human traffickers, smuggler gangs as they are referred to by Wolfgang are the very catalyst in which Syrian refugees have any shot at all at a better life not only for themselves but for the future of their families. At the same time these smugglers are just doing what they can to make a living to provide for their own families. I personally like to hope for the
best in humanity and give people the benefit of doubt, in particular in extreme cases like these, i would like to believe, hope,  that at least a boat or two among these people would have someone at the helm, doing in there hearts, what they believe is the best thing they can to make some kind of positive impact on the situation, contributing in some way aid to these people know Syrian Refugees. A life not chosen but forced to embrace and survive,  Syrian, to be or not to be Refugee…..

Second….. Syrian, to be or not to be Refugee…. It one thing to truly be a refugee and know constantly in the forefront of your mind and every action you take literally from moment to moment that you can and will die or be sent back at any given moment if you are caught or simply taken by misplacement of you travels in the right place at the wrong time or the wrong place at the right time. Verses the dare i say Luxury, considering the circumstances, although it is still a luxury, of knowing all the way in the back of your mind that should you get caught, political asylum will be granted the moment you reveal the truth of who you are, Wolfgang Bauer, a reporter. Don’t get me wrong i’m grateful beyond measure for what this man and his family have done, proving to me once again that there are good people in the world doing incredible things to expose the inhumane treatment of other human beings and living what i would consider an altruistic way of life and making a impact that will last and cultivate the kind of awareness needed in others worldwide to start really working together to create a world in which the well being of the human species is what we hold most valuable and not money, power, or self centered ways of life. I personally work diligently to live my life altruistically and work mindfully every day of my life to help cultivate this very way of life for the present moment and for our future, so i’m in awe of what has come from the book Crossing the sea in regards to public awareness, of what syrian refugees go through for freedom and further cultivating positive solutions to what’s happening to them and what we can continue to do to make life better for them, in particular long term sustainable placement opportunities. Something i find to be very important, something i will cover in the rest of this paper through my own research.

Women With Children First

I believe that women and children should have first priority towards needing help. This is because women need to take care of children and to also care for the children that travel  alone. Not only are the refugee children traveling alone but they are also left alone in camps. In these camps ,the children are not getting enough support they need as keiki. What happens to them when they get sent back to Syria and if their government will be willing to help them and support them. I feel refugees have to relocate because of the war.