Blog Post Week 5 Facebook making aware

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In the week 7 lecture it was said that “Dispersed communities can be considered a form of people networks”. (Luyn, 2015) while groups of dispersed people can grow into an individual identity. The use of social media can also be extremely effective when spreading awareness, for ones cause or seeking assistance when it comes to finding a place for dispersed peoples around the world. With the use of social media displaced peoples can show the hardships they have to go through on a day to day basis and gather support. Assistance can be given to asylum seekers and refugee groups as foreign aid and through immigration.

“During the migration/ diasporic experience an identity develops based upon feelings of a shared common origin” (Ma Mung 2005, p. 35) there have been numerous circumstances throughout history where people have left their homelands in search of a new place to live. However, these trips often mean the deaths of hundreds of people due to attrition and other harsh conditions.

People didn’t know or even care about asylum seekers as they were so far away and never directly impacted upon people’s lives in Australia. However, since the uprising of social media asylum seekers and refugees can now rally people behind them for support. One such way is simply telling stories about where they came from and why that had to leave which in itself is saddening and encourages people to donate money, food or clothes and offer to volunteer and help provide places to stay.  Also with the rise of social media people are also made aware of the ways asylum seekers are treated around the world and ways people help or endanger them.

References

Hms.salvos.org.au,. (2015). Refugees and Asylum Seekers Facts & Figures. Retrieved 15 September 2015, from http://hms.salvos.org.au/refugees-asylum-seekers-factsheet/

Right Now,. (2013). Asylum Seekers Around the World - turning back the political tides - Right Now. Retrieved 15 September 2015, from http://rightnow.org.au/topics/asylum-seekers/asylum-seekers-around-the-world-turning-back-the-ocean-tides/