The Refugee Journey as Rites of Passage in Alan Gratz’s Refugee

Refugee health.

At the end of 2008 there were approximately 42 million people around the world who had been forcibly displaced from their homeland. As a signatory to the United Nations Refugee Convention, Australia resettles over 13 000 refugees each year, with 4000 settling in New South Wales (NSW). In 2007–2008, most of these people originated from Burma, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan and Liberia. The majority co...

Refugee Health

Refugee Children in England

Problems arising from the evacuation of children have lately been discussed at length. This paper deals with a similar subject, an evacuation problem on the largest scale. Evacuation of schoolchildren means more than the separation of children from their parents and home environment for an indefinite time; it means also the abandonment of many factors which have been regarded as essential for t...

Responding to Migrant and Refugee Healthcare Needs in Ireland

Human migration, both voluntary and precipitated by conflict and persecution, continues to pose challenges to the healthcare infrastructure of host countries. The scale of international migration to Ireland has increased substantially in recent years. Both economic migrants and refugees have complex health needs including those related to infectious diseases, malnourishment, gender-specific iss...

The Journey into Adulthood: Study of Military Service as a Rite of Passage in Ahmad Mahmoud’s The Neighbors

This paper attempts to investigate the adolescent narrator’s journey into adulthood in Ahmad Mahmoud’s The Neighbor. Considering the central character’s growth into adulthood, the paper argues that the compulsory military service can be fulfilled as a certain ‘rite of passage’ conventionalized within the society, as represented in the narrative. That is because, through this convention, Khaled ...