Refuge: Reading Journal #4
This week’s section of our reading focuses on the importance
of considering autonomy when drafting refugee policy, especially in the sense
of alleviating post-conflict tensions. While our current system only values
immediate and short-term responses, it is important that we take into
consideration the restoration of the life of those who are displaced (primarily
through the right to work and general economic participation). Uganda, the third-largest
host country in Africa, is one such success story of a system in which refugees
are allowed to work and cultivate land.
1. Is there a sense of xenophobia amongst the
general public in the U.S. that prevents us from taking in a mass amount of
refugees and allowing them to contribute to the economy?
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