The Refugee Experience The universal refugee experience is related to Ha’s refugee experience in the book Inside Out and Back Again, because they both have to find transportation, learn a new culture, and find a new home. In the Desperation at Sea article in the Junior Scholastic Magazine Ali fled his home in Somalia. He had to travel across the Sahara Desert in the back of a pickup truck to get to Tripoli, Libya in order to get on a boat to Italy. Ha also had to flee her home in order to escape the poverty, violence, and the war. Til Gurung and his family “lived peacefully in Bhutan for many years,” but as their, “community grew, the Bhutanese government began to feel threatened.” Therefore, they forced them to leave their home. They ended