Sense of Belongingness for Refugees

Week 9 Writing Assignment
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It is human nature to feel wanted and have a sense of belonging. Societies have been built for a long time based on the need to be part of a more extensive social setup. The moment this is lost in one way or the other, then the feeling of humanism starts waning. The loss of identity makes a person develop new tendencies to survive. Lissa Malkki’s work, National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity Among Scholars and Refugees, provides quite a serious look into one of the most pertinent problems in the contemporary world: refugees.
Refugees have been part and parcel of society for the past several centuries due to war and natural disasters. Being displaced from a place that one used to call home is a permanently damaging event. Upon settling into new territories, these individuals will always try their best to carve out their own space and embrace their ways of life, which might differ from the natives of t...