{"id":267,"date":"2018-04-07T14:13:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T19:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/?p=267"},"modified":"2018-04-07T14:13:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T19:13:42","slug":"uk-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/2018\/04\/07\/uk-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Immigrating to a new country can be terrifying, but continuously migrating back to where you\u2019ve originated from during this journey can be even more frightening as both adapting and assimilating can prove even more difficult. In \u201cThe Ostrich\u201d, written by Sudanese-born writer, Leila Aboulela, she informs readers of the difficulty of migrating given the cultural difference. \u201cThe Ostrich\u201d tells of Sumra, a young, female, Sudanese-born student that studies abroad in London. The young woman migrates back and forth between her family who continues to reside in Khartoum with her Sudanese husband, Majdy, who resides in London. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I found this short story to be interesting because it emphasizes just how complex migrating into a new country can be for a person of color. \u00a0This story highlights the complexity of one\u2019s culture and identity and the struggle to maintain or abandon it given new societal norms. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here is the link to the text, I think you guys will enjoy it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/lms.dickinson.edu\/pluginfile.php\/1096335\/mod_resource\/content\/0\/Ostrich.pdf<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigrating to a new country can be terrifying, but continuously migrating back to where you\u2019ve originated from during this journey can be even more frightening as both adapting and assimilating can prove even more difficult. In \u201cThe Ostrich\u201d, written by Sudanese-born writer, Leila Aboulela, she informs readers of the difficulty of migrating given the cultural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}