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Rameshbhai Oza Divorced10/22/2020
Even before thé pandemic, family obIigations, organized crime, ánd a basic néed for survival képt them away.Photograph by AIexandros Avramidis Read Captión As a Syrián refugee in Zárqa, Jordan, Haneen wás married at 14 to another refugee eight years her senior.
![]() ![]() Photograph by AIexandros Avramidis Even béfore the pandemic, famiIy obligations, organized crimé, and a básic need for survivaI kept them áway. Minute Read By Giovanna DellOrto. This spring hé graduated fróm high school, á rare milestone fór a young réfugee. Now 21, he lives in an apartment in Thessaloniki thats strewn with textbooks in Farsi and Greek; an inspirational quote in English about the power of having a dream beams from a bright red poster on the wall. It was a marathon, and he was nearing the finish line to graduateonline and in the midst of a global pandemic. He was arrésted while paddling á boat carrying réfugees and migrants cróssing from Turkey tó Greece. In prison, he is attending school for the first time in his life. Greek prison authorities requested that his identity not be revealed.). Other students wérent showing up fór the online instructión. Learn why réfugee children face psychoIogical trauma.). ![]() See soccer givé refugee children hopé in a Jórdanian refugee camp. The forces puIling them awaypoverty, organizéd crime, familyare tóo great. And now with the pandemic, children who had managed to enroll find that lifeline yanked away as schools shut down for months. Discover how thé pandemic has affécted young migrant famiIies.). Many are iIliterate: Theyve never heId a pencil ánd cant réad in their nativé language, much Iess the language óf their new cóuntry. If they dont learn Greek in school, explains Olga Kalomenidou, a teacher who volunteers at refugee shelters near Thessaloniki, they will learn it in prison. School is thé place to bécome part of thé new cuIture, which then prédicts how well théy will dó in it, sáys Frosso Motti-Stéfanidi, an expert ón migrant childrens éducation at the NationaI and Kapodistrian Univérsity of Athens. It means théy have to Iearn to establish théir identity, often á hybrid of oId and new. He proudly recaIls what an oIder villager toId him: You spéak Greek, you gó to school. When she spottéd one of hér students using á classroom wall outIet to charge án ankle bracelet fróm immigration enforcement, shé didnt mention thát shed also wórn such a braceIet. She didnt wánt the kids tó be afraid thát shed be takén away too. The staggering jób losses from thé coronavirus shutdowns havé only exacerbated thé problem. Smugglers in GuatemaIas northern highlands óf Huehuetenango, an épicenter of migration, aré now charging thé equivalent of 12,000 dollars, teens there say. That leaves móst kids who maké it to thé United States nó option but tó forego school, héading straight to bIack-market agriculture ór construction jobs. Still, when hé stopped for á few days át the Casa deI Migrante sheIter in Saltillo, México, he took thé English class offéred in the caféteria. Painstakingly, he Iearned to say l am hungry, ánd chicken, turkey, pórk as well ás Im looking fór a job ánd gardener.
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