The United States was built on the backs of immigrants, pilgrims, and refugees. Innovation generates great new ideas and thoughts coming together. From the industrialization of steel to the invention of the light bulb and telephone, immigrants welcomed into the United States have improved the infrastructure and lives of all Americans through themselves or their offspring. Currently, the Islamic State and civil war are forcing over 12 million families from their homes. These people flee into the wilderness travelling as asylum-seekers in masses, seeking asylum in another country to improve their lives. This determination and drive to succeed is what pushes America towards a brighter future. Learning from our own history of emigration and refugee…show more content… We find this especially in the current refugee crisis in the Middle East. The absence of men leaves the refugee women and children make the long and hard journey themselves while somehow providing for their families. In the article “Fleeing Terror, Finding Refuge”, Paul Salopek states, “Among Syrian refugees in Turkey, the proportion of women and children zooms to 75 percent. The men stay behind to fight or protect property. The women and children become destitute wanderers . . . Syria’s women suffer their wars alone, in silence, in alien lands”. Women do not normally have the same privileges as men in the culture in the Middle East. Even after the strenuous journey to get there, they are unable to find work in the foreign land. Young girls find themselves begging on corners, or being sold off for marriage or prostitution at a young age in order to try to survive another day. The struggles that the women and children face in the foreign cultures of other nations prevent them from…show more content… They flee disasters from their home country in an effort to establish a better life for themselves in a foreign land with different cultures. All people desire to provide the best as possible for themselves and their family at any cost. They are determined people as a whole. This determination shows with their ability to succeed in the work they do. Author David Miliband stated in his article “How the US Can Welcome Refugees”, “Resettlement agencies work to help refugees gain employment as soon as possible after their arrival. According to the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement’s annual report to Congress for 2013 . . . the rate of refugees’ self-sufficiency at 180 days was 69 percent. A recent survey by the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute found that refugees were, in fact, more likely to be employed than the American-born population“. These studies conclude that refugees are indeed able to succeed in resettlement. In some aspects it even goes to show that they are more successful than the average American-born citizen. This ability to succeed has an everlasting effect on the refugees as well as their children. This propels the descendants to do well in their new country and use as many of the wonderful resources that are available to them. People rise to the challenges they face. By giving the refugees the ability and the infrastructure to succeed, the entire country could reap the
