Refugees In North Carolina Essay

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Hozehna Shar
Jessi Morton
English 112-41
05/02/2018
Yearly, thousands of refugee are admitted into the United States for resettlement. All refugee families are resettled to be saved from their current situations which involve severe forms of persecution, war, and violence in their country. Many refugees who are resettled in the United States are lucky to be able to find better job opportunities, education, freedom of religion, speech, and the press, which are part of their civil rights. With this freedom and protection, refugees find a much better life for their families. Many peoples might think that the struggles faced by refugees end once they arrive in the United States; however, this is far from the case. Refugees face many barriers once …show more content…

The requirement for ESL classes in the Central Piedmont Community College Refugee ESL program is that students are either refugee, asylees, SIVs (Special Immigrant Visas), or parolees and that they haven’t received citizenship yet. For refugee adults who want to attend ESL classes in a community college in the evening, they must have a high school diploma or GED (General Education Diploma). One specific barrier that might keep refugees from attending the currently-offered ESL classes is that they are offered in the morning. If a parent wants to be around when their children are home from school, then they would need to have a first shift job. This means that they cannot attend morning classes. So, people are forced to make the difficult decisions of being able to be with their children, finding childcare for their children, taking ESL classes, working a job, or having one spouse attend ESL classes while the other one works. This then provides more problems because if they are working and not learning English, it will be hard to progress in their jobs. Also, classes are only offered at a handful of places around the city. Refugees who live far from these sites might have a very difficult time getting to and from class because of transportation