Blog #5 Problem Definition

Refugees should not be let into the country. 

There can be many different reasons as to why people have the perspective that refugees shouldn't be welcome in our country. It can stem from many things such as family backgrounds, political agendas, a rise to xenophobia, fake news, and so much more.

Fewer Americans believe U.S. should accept refugees

This article talks about how there is a drop from the number of Americans that believe we should accept refugees into our country due to the influences from the Republican party in which they link the refugee crisis to a matter of national security.


The Trump administration doesn’t believe in the global refugee crisis

Summarizes the political changes that have affected the refugee crisis in a negative way. Which includes the United States withdrawing from the United Nations' Global Compact on Migration as well as the multiple implementations of the Muslim Ban.

How America’s refugee policy is damaging to the world and to itself

"In the first eight months of this fiscal year a measly 46 Syrian refugees and 11 South Sudanese refugees were resettled in the United States. By contrast, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt—all poor countries—host more than 5.6m Syrian refugees, as well as large refugee populations from other nations."

Should people be free to choose the country in which they live?

This page is a debate that was held where 15910 people voted towards whether people should be free to choose which country in which they live in and 64% voted no.

Quick facts: What you need to know about the Syria crisis

This piece talks about the struggles and the trials and tribulations Syrian refugees have had to face when fleeing their war-torn country.

Blog #4 Preliminary Research and Summation

For my thesis, I have been thinking of tackling many different issues that I feel passionate about. Those issues being fake news, the refugee crisis, dealing with stereotypes, hate crimes, homelessness, aiding children in third world countries, along with some others. 

I keep debating whether or not I should continue a project from my Narrative class or if I should start from scratch and begin a new project. I have been leaning towards my project Migration Roots for quite some time now because of the time and research I spent behind it and because of the large issue that it confronts when it comes to the refugee crisis. 

My idea behind Migration Roots is that it is a neutral platform where people from anywhere around the world are able to go onto the website and input information from where their family originated from in order to distinguish the paths that their ancestors had to take along with the hardships along the way to end up where they are today. My hopes for this platform is to allow people who may or may not be more privileged in where their current life situation is and who may or may not have certain feelings and stances towards refugees that don’t allow them to have the same opportunities that their own family had at some point. I want Migration Roots to allow for an eye-opening experience that allows people to be aware of their roots and how they came to be where they are now, I want the sacrifices of their ancestors to be known so that they can be more compassionate towards those that are currently facing hardship in their lives. 

When I first began looking into this project I wanted to see if I could back up the platform with research and whether it would go in the direction I would hope. 

Below I have linked the case study for my Migration Roots project that includes all of the research and time that I spent trying to put together the concept for this platform. 

http://www.sossanamin.com/migration-roots/

If I were to continue this project I would like to turn it into a reality and actually turn it into a running website that can hopefully bring a change to the perspectives of those that don’t see eye to eye to providing the same opportunities to current refugees.