Social Integration, Biculturalism, and Trauma of Refugees: An Anatomization of Refugee Experience from Exile to Entry

Abstract

An individual’s uprootedness from their native place is really a bewilderment. So, what happens when this uprootedness is unforeseen?
Refugees experience such a chaos both in their private and public life where their identity is in threat. They endure all physical and psychological
injuries during their exile. Their journey is not just a travel for survival but a journey from turmoil to trauma. Between this perilous exile, many
lose their lives, relatives, and the valuables they ported. The survival phase that they undergo in the host country is yet another difficult process
where all are not admitted easily out of several security reasons. Once, they admitted, the conflict between the social and the cultural integration
takes place. This paper traces the conflict of refugees in the social integration, biculturalism, and trauma they face in a new land.