Nashville Public Television’s Next Door Neighbors series explores Nashville’s Sudanese community. Refugee resettlement to the United States is often the last option displaced people have for a permanent home. The opportunity is available to less than one percent of the world’s refugees. Once in the U.S, in cities like Nashville, refugees are expected to build new lives. But what if a chance to go back to their homeland finally arrives? Which home will they choose? Next Door Neighbors Sudanese explores what happens for refugees when there is a chance to return home.
I loved seeing the way Sudanese communities have integrated with the American system, getting education jobs, values etc and building a new life for themselves, yet still holding onto their cultural values.
My parents moved to Australia many years ago from Ghana. They both spoke English and had already settled in another country (Nigeria) prior to moving to Australia. Difficulties such as people not understanding them, them not understanding people, cultural differences and so forth was an enormous battle for them! So, I can’t even comprehend what people from war-stricken countries have to go through before they immigrate to another country like the United States and rebuild their lives again.
I applaud them!
SOURCE: THIS IS AFRICA
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