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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBycel, Lee T
_eautore
245 1 0 _aRefugees in America :
_bStories of Courage, Resilience, and Hope in Their Own Words /
_cLee T Bycel.
264 1 _aNew Brunswick, NJ :
_bRutgers University Press,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource (190 p.) :
_b11 color photographs
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tDEDICATION --
_tCONTENTS --
_tFOREWORD --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter 1 Meron Semedar, Eritrea --
_tChapter 2 Noemi Perez-Lemus, Guatemala --
_tChapter 3 Asinja Badeel, Iraq and the Yazidis --
_tChapter 4 Deng Ajak Jongkuch, South Sudan --
_tChapter 5 Sidonia Lax, Poland --
_tChapter 6 Malk Alamarsh, Syria --
_tChapter 7 Vanny Loun, Cambodia --
_tChapter 8 Darwin Velasquez, El Salvador --
_tChapter 9 Kien Ha Quach, Vietnam --
_tChapter 10 Wilita Sanguma, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) --
_tChapter 11 Jawad Khawari, Afghanistan --
_tAfterword --
_tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
_tINDEX --
_tABOUT THE AUTHOR
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aIt is not an easy road—but hope is the oxygen of my life. These insightful words of Meron Semedar, a refugee from Eritrea, reflect the feelings of the eleven men and women featured in this book. These refugees share their extraordinary experiences of fleeing oppression, violence and war in their home countries in search of a better life in the United States. Each chapter of Refugees in America focuses on an individual from a different country, from a 93-year-old Polish grandmother who came to the United States after surviving the horrors of Auschwitz to a young undocumented immigrant from El Salvador who became an American college graduate, despite being born impoverished and blind. Some have found it easy to reinvent themselves in the United States, while others have struggled to adjust to America, with its new culture, language, prejudices, and norms. Each of them speaks candidly about their experiences to author Lee T. Bycel, who provides illuminating background information on the refugee crises in their native countries. Their stories help reveal the real people at the center of political debates about US immigration. Giving a voice to refugees from such far-flung locations as South Sudan, Guatemala, Syria, and Vietnam, this book weaves together a rich tapestry of human resilience, suffering, and determination. Profits from the sale of this book will be donated to two organizations that are doing excellent refugee resettlement work and offer many opportunities to support refugees: HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) hias.org International Rescue Committee (IRC) rescue.org
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aRefugees
_zUnited States.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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700 1 _aBeah, Ishmael
_eautore
700 1 _aBonick, Dona Kopol
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.36019/9781978806252
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978806252
856 4 2 _3Cover
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