Have you met any Refugee's

[margomeoz]

If so have you became friends with them?

[icyfroth]

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Refugees have been known to destroyed and / or have  falsfied documents.

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Do you mean like this man, Dr Munjed Al Muderis?

http://www.sah.org.au/assets/files/PDFs/Events%20and%20News/2013%20PDFs/Women's%20Weekly%20Nov%20201...

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Did he destroy / falsify documents? Lose them?

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Yes. His mother destroyed his documents to increase his chances of escape and got false docs for him. 

He went on to become on of our top surgeons after Ruddock said he would have no chance or pursuing his medical career in Australia.  

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That worked out alright then didn't it? So you think every refugee that comes here has the potential of becoming a bionic surgeon?

It just proves that many many refugees come here with falsified documents, so a screening process by the dept immigration would not reveal any potential troublemakers or rocket scientists. It's a case of wait and see, which is not always a happy ending as in your example.

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Actually, it demonstrates there are good reasons for documents to be destroyed. If he'd been caught leaving the country with his documents he would have been killed.  

that's as may be, but it doesn't help prove your ID when it comes to the entering the country of your destination.

He volunteers as a defence reservist as pay back now, after arriving by boat thanks to people smugglers 14 years ago..

That's nice

But not really relevant to this discussion

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[just_me_karen]

Second generation economic migrants / refugees have a much higher university education rate than generational Aussies. Someone researched the Greek and Italian economic migrants of the 1950s and noted their children nearly all went to uni, even tho mum and dad solved in hard jobs. The same thing happened to the Vietnamese migrants of the 70s...and will happen to current refugees too.

[**meep**]

True

[i-need-a-martini]

I know quite a few refugees: 3 long term friends who came out with their vietnamese parents as boat people, 1 sudanese woman who I met through work a couple of years ago (political refugee), 1 who came out with her parents from china when she was a teen (political refugees) and 2 acquaintances who are from pakistan - one is my beautician who I have come to know quite well and her sister (by boat from malaysia).

All of them would have been dead had they stayed in their respective countries.

[meh_too]

Yes, I met a refugee at Christmas time. Lovely boy. My niece is marrying him next month.