In the ted talk Don't feel sorry for refugees---believe in them by Luma Mufleh it talks about how Luma Mufleh is a daughter of an immigrant and she had to flee her own home country Jorden to go live in the United States were she gave up her Jorden citizenship. And how 63 million people have been forced from their home do to war. Then she went to college in the United States. She traveled around to find a place that she can call home where she ended up finding a place in North Carolina. “I didn't feel like I had a home. I was no longer a Jordanian citizen, but I wasn't American, either. I felt a kind of loneliness that is still hard to put into words today”(5:36 Mufleh). This is after she had to give up her Jordanian Citizenship.
In the novel Out of Nowhere By Maria Padian the main characters are Tom, Saeed, Myla, Donnie, Alex Rodes. It talks about kids that play soccer that wanted to beat Maquoit which they did. It also talks about all the kids that come from Somalia that had to move from their home country to war. And they struggle with trying to fit in or have a hard time trying to understand English where the school is so under-equipped with the correctly trained people to help. And Saeed's sister Samira had to figure out how to fit in with American culture but also be in rules of her own culture “Here’s the thing: she was trying to figure out the new rules as well. Trying to figure out what was religion and what was culture. Haram versus Hala. In a strange new world where she was trying to fit in as a new American but also as a good Muslim”(Padian 270). With the pressure of trying to fit in she did not feel like she was at home.
In your book did your character have a hard time trying to fit in or assimilate to their “new” home?
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