Children of the War Voices of Iraqi Refugees.
SOURCE: Children of war

www.worldbookonline.com/student-new/#/article/home/ar463380. Accessed 3 Oct. 2018.
Struggles of refugees
-most refugees give up possessions, food, shelter, friend and family to pursue an uncertain future in a foreign country or land.
- country's that receive refugees are called host country's. They often have trouble providing food, shelter, medication, and clothing.
Refugees rights
- The places country's provide protection and shelter for refugees are called asylums.
-Refoulement is a violation of country's by sending refugees back to their country's.
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*A young girl arrived in Lebanon with her five siblings when she was 11. Her mother had been killed in an airstrike, and the children were separated from their dad. There was no parent to put food on the table. The girl spent her days collecting garbage to sell for miniscule amounts of money and doing the back-breaking labor of getting water and cooking and cleaning so her siblings could go to school.

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*The United States  contributed to the reluctance to accept refugees from Europe. Even so, perhaps as many as a quarter million refugees were accepted by the United States by the beginning  postwar years, far more than by any other 
nation.
*uring the year of 1924, congress enacted legislation that steeply reduced immigration and apportioned it according to national origins.
*U.S. accepted about one-third of the initial 150,000 refugees running from Nazi persecution
*The immigration quotas for Europeans ended up to be 154,000 a year, of which about 84,000 were for the British and Irish