https://padlet.com/tquinn2/jslc1buuvg627qua Societal Issue throughout the reading so far. en-us 2022-11-30 03:38:04 UTC 2022-11-30 04:13:33 UTC hello@padlet.com tquinn2 https://padlet.com/tquinn2/jslc1buuvg627qua/wish/2402967156 Throughout the book so far, Little Bee and her companions along the way (Yevette, the girl with no name, and the Sahari girl) have all experienced what the immigration system is like and how corrupt it really is. All of them ended up in the immigration center one way or another and each one experienced many different consequences because of that. Even characters who had not even experienced what immigration was like firsthand talked about how corrupt the system is. In reality, the system does not provide up-to-standard living conditions both mentally and physically, sometimes there isn't even a plan for what to do with the immigrants, and the people in the system have way too much authority. In the case of Little Bee, she didn't have any papers and therefore no identification of herself, so who knows how long she would have been stuck in the center without the help of Yevette. Adding on to the situation of Yevette, it is just wrong how someone is able to give their body up in order for another to pull some string and release them for that. I mean, the guard shouldn't even have that power in the first place and someone should be looking over them. What's worse, the fact that once they were free,  they were still technically on the run because they had no papers and were illegal. That would make them if not in a worse situation than actually being stuck inside of the center. All these strings of events shouldn't have even occurred and there should be a better way for the system to run, hence this is a societal issue. It connects to a good number of people in society as well as plays a pivotal role in shaping one's life. ]]> 2022-11-30 03:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tquinn2/jslc1buuvg627qua/wish/2402967156 tquinn2 https://padlet.com/tquinn2/jslc1buuvg627qua/wish/2402968240 “This government doesn’t care about anyone. You’re not the first people we’ve seen, wandering through these fields like Martians. You don’t even know what planet you’re on, do you? Bloody government. Doesn’t care about you refugees, doesn’t care about the countryside, doesn’t care about farmers. All this bloody government cares about is foxes and townspeople” (Cleave 61).]]> 2022-11-30 03:52:59 UTC https://padlet.com/tquinn2/jslc1buuvg627qua/wish/2402968240 tquinn2 https://padlet.com/tquinn2/jslc1buuvg627qua/wish/2402969413 “Because if I had a pound for every bloody immigrant that got in the back of one of my cabs and didn’t know where they wanted to go and started prattling on to my driver in Swahili and tried to pay him in cigarettes” (Cleave 15).]]> 2022-11-30 03:54:34 UTC https://padlet.com/tquinn2/jslc1buuvg627qua/wish/2402969413 tquinn2 https://padlet.com/tquinn2/jslc1buuvg627qua/wish/2402974713 "For the first six months in the detention center, I screamed every night and in the day I imagined a thousand ways to kill myself." (Cleave 47). ]]> 2022-11-30 04:01:10 UTC https://padlet.com/tquinn2/jslc1buuvg627qua/wish/2402974713 tquinn2 https://padlet.com/tquinn2/jslc1buuvg627qua/wish/2402978468 "But we can't do anything without papers, Yevette. Don't you see? If we had stayed, if we had gone through the proper procedure, maybe they would have released us with papers"
(Cleave 73). - Little Bee

"Uh-uh, Bug, uh-uh. It don't work like dat. Not for pipple from Jamaica, an not for pipple from Nye-Jirrya neither" (Cleave 73). - Yevette]]> 2022-11-30 04:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/tquinn2/jslc1buuvg627qua/wish/2402978468 tquinn2 https://padlet.com/tquinn2/jslc1buuvg627qua/wish/2402979598 "I tole him if he arrange to get me release from dat place, he can do what he want wid me" (Cleave 71). ]]> 2022-11-30 04:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/tquinn2/jslc1buuvg627qua/wish/2402979598 tquinn2 https://padlet.com/tquinn2/jslc1buuvg627qua/wish/2402980622 “They say, That refugee girl is not one of us. That girl does not belong.” (Cleave 8)

]]> 2022-11-30 04:09:49 UTC https://padlet.com/tquinn2/jslc1buuvg627qua/wish/2402980622 tquinn2 https://padlet.com/tquinn2/jslc1buuvg627qua/wish/2402983018 "A detention center? Christ, what did she do? ... For Two Years? ... I don't believe her. Two years in detnetion? She must have done something" (Cleave 120). ]]> 2022-11-30 04:13:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tquinn2/jslc1buuvg627qua/wish/2402983018