displacement Flashcards

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place

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s paces people make meaningful/ thing and way of knowing

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place-making

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the process by which humans invest meaning into a space

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space

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symbol of freedom in western world

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displacement

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The enforced departure of people from their
homes.

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5
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Mary Antin

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American Author that wrote the promised land

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6
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1924 Federal Immigration Act

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Restrict Immigration from different groups

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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Dissallowed Chinese to immigrate to America

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“The New Colossus”

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Poem that symbolizes what american should look like

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Migrant

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Refers to someone who has left her original place of residence for a
considerable amount of time.

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Displaced person

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a particular form of migrant who is forced to move against
their will.

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Refugee

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Someone who has been forced to leave her country because of a well-
founded fear of persecution.

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Asylum Seeker

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Someone who is applying for refugee status.

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Undocumented Migrant

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Immigrants who live in a country without legal status or
authorization.

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first nations peoples

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Indigenous peoples of Canada who inhabited the land before European colonization

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Indigenous Peoples

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distinct communities with unique cultures and ties to their ancestral lands, whose ancestors were the original inhabitants of a region before the arrival of other cultures

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16
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America v Americas

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Americas refers to entire continent

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Diaspora

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scattereing of people, language, or culture from their orignal homeland (Originally used in terms of Jewish Persons.

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Black Diaspora

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voluntary and involuntary movement of
Africans and their descendants (rooted in Middle Passage)

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creolization

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the process where different cultures and languages blend to form a new, hybrid culture and language

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Inter-African
syncretism

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the blending of cultural, religious, and spiritual practices between different groups within Africa, rather than solely with foreign influences

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Genocide

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mass maiming/slaughter of a race and/or tribe with intent to destory part or all of said ethnic group

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Frame narrative

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used to pacify the trauma of ww2 by telling it alongside him recanting the attempt to interview his father

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Frame

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Gutter

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Space between frames

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credible fear interview
screening done by U.S. Citizen and immigration services to determine if an asylum seeker has a credible fear of persecution or torture
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well-founded fear of persecution
has both a subjective component, the applicant's genuine belief they will be persecuted
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What year came the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
1948
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UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees)
a UN agency that protects the rights and well-being of refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people worldwide
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Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951)
Defnies what a refugee is, the rights of refugees, and the responsibiilty of nations to protect them and not send them to a country where they face persecution
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Asylum
protection granted to foreign nationals in the United States who meet the definition of a "refugee"
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Mahmoud Darwish 1941-2008
Palenstines national poet and was politcally involved in Palestinian struggle throughout his entire life, as seen in his works.