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Inside Out and Back Again

Inside Out and Back Again

I chose to write Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai because I have always viewed American refugee policies and American immigration policies to be overall inhumane. I hoped to see a first hand an account of that kind of traumatic experience through this book. Reading it in verse definitely helps makes her experiences easier to understand.  Lai went from Vietnam to Alabama, a culture shock I could never even begin to understand. Boarders are supposed to just be lines on a map. Instead, these boarders create power dynamics in society and in politics. These lines create ownership over American land that was never a white man’s to begin with. Just this year we saw Donald Trump create pop up immigration holding centers where they stripped children away from their families. These horrific acts in American history will hopefully push for a better, more open minded country. Seeing the hardships faced by immigrants or refugees will help create for an empathetic society so that law makers feel the urge to create the change. Inside Out and back Again is a primary example of how reading a young girl’s experience, could help eventually change how some people may view current immigration policies.

One Reply to “Inside Out and Back Again”

  1. Hey Sydney nicely written. I absolute agree with your post being one who has experienced change and culture shock I know how difficult it is to cope with. Your right this book is a great example about the struggle that immigrants had to go through, presenting it to younger children could help them realize the hardships people went through back in the days and sadly still do.

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