Ethical Dilemma Paper “FINAL DRAFT” (Analyzing Issues/challenges facing refugees and immigrants
Ethical Dilemma Paper “FINAL DRAFT” (Analyzing Issues/challenges facing refugees and immigrants) (Minimum 6 Pages - 150 points)
The page count does not include the cover page or reference pages.
The filename should be YOUR name and the name of the assignment! For example, "RefikSadikovic_Ethical Dilemma Ppaper.doc." Please use Microsoft Office WORD software.
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Learning outcomes:
This paper will help you:
• Develop critical thinking skills, to see beyond your own lives to the world outside.
• Compare and contrast the major ethical principles to the real-world issues.
• Understand, visualize, and empathize with someone else’s struggles.
• Understand and apply the different perspectives from which an issue can be investigated. Using multiple perspectives makes it more likely that we will think about various issues in ways that are fair to all potential sides.
• Critically evaluate and apply moral principles and ideas to practical human issues when analyzing crucial issues that refugee/immigrant face.
Please follow the paper instructions and four steps below:
Use subtitles for different sections of your paper, e.g., Identification of Issues, Ethical Reasoning and Application to Issues and Ethical Receptiveness & Application to Issues. Subtitles make a paper more readable and they help you focus and re-focus on the direction of your thinking. Most likely (and this is my assumption), this is the first paper you have ever written for ethics and it should be fun! Start wherever you can. Write out your first arguments, for example. Don't worry about your grammar or spelling at the beginning. What is important is that you articulate some ideas, get them down on paper. You will be able to revise these thoughts later. Focus first on what you want to ‘get out of your system.' Clean up the paper later, several times, if you have to.
Paper Instructions & Paper Sections:
Your paper must be a reflection and research from the readings and additional research about poverty, integration, discrimination, education and other ethical challenges/issues, new immigrants/refugees are facing prior after resettlement or issues that refugee face prior to resettlement to the U.S.
You will need to clearly identify complex issues and the relationship among the complexes of issues/challenges that refugee/immigrants face (e.g., poverty, unemployment, homelessness, discrimination, prejudice, integration, education, social, economic, acculturation, etc.).
For example, if you choose the broader idea (e.g. refugees and education) then, you need to talk about several important issues that are closely connected to refugees and education (e.g. language barriers, poverty issues that refugees face after resettlement, interrupted schooling in refugee camps, culture shock, or perhaps discrimination, etc.) and then you will further and deeply analyze one or two of these important issues from at least two different perspectives. Look at the issue through different lenses/different angles, e.g. how different agencies, scholarly articles, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, see, define and explain the issue. (See INTRODUCTORY and EVIDENCE stage below).
1. Identification of Issues (ULO 6.3 University learning Outcomes)
This Section - Minimum 2 Pages
a. Introductory stage; opening paragraph and short introduction (introduces some initial evidence as background to the problem identified).
b. Evidence stage (identification of issues): identify complex issues and their possible causes. Chooses one or two issues that are connected to analyze from 2 perspectives, and explains why this is or these are important issue(s), with causes/influences
c. Analyze intersectionality (multi-layer) of issue using different perspectives’ frameworks (use a variety of perspectives and by considering fairly the other sides - convincingly argue their positions in order to make a decision and form an opinion of your own and then explain why you did not choose that/their position(s). Understands the complexity of issue(s)
Introductory Stage:
The opening paragraph (introductory statement) serves an introduction to your paper. It should include the statement that tells the reader what position or conclusion you are defending in your paper. If you're like most people and you don't have entire papers stored in your head, organized perfectly from start to finish, then it's best to do what has proven to work: compose the other sections of the paper first, and come back to (re)write your introduction so that it genuinely reflects what your Ethical Dilemma Paper is all about.
It is usually best and easiest to work up a compelling introduction only once you have completed the body and conclusion of your paper, odd as that may sound. Think of it this way (if you're still skeptical): if you begin your research with the purpose of defending a particular position, you are very likely to get caught up in rhetoric, and you'll tend to read only those arguments that support your initial opinion, rather than approach the issue with an open mind. Your introductory statement should clearly state the position you intend to support. Take the issue you are focusing on seriously. As noted by well-known ethicist Judith A. Boss, people talked in this manner for centuries about slavery. Your goal in the term paper is to critically analyze all the sides of the issue and then decide which position is best. This stage identifies the problem and usually introduces some initial evidence as background to the problem identified. So, what are the issues that new immigrants are facing? It can be a lot of things. A problem might be just the feeling that something is wrong and should be corrected. You might feel some sense of distress, or of injustice. Stated most simply, a problem is the difference between what is, and what might or should be. "No child should go to bed hungry, but one quarter of all children do in this country," is a clear, potent problem statement.
Evidence Stage (Identification of Issues): introduces case evidence to illustrate the problem identified. Here, you will need to clearly identify complex issues and relationship among the complexes of issues/challenges that refugee/immigrants face — e.g., poverty, unemployment, homelessness, discrimination, prejudice, integration, education, social, economic, acculturation, etc. Complex issues are issues which cut across different service area and may require a long-term response from a range of services. Therefore, complex issues that refugee student face may include for example: resettlement into a new country, cultural shock, mental health problems caused by war and refugee camps, poverty, hunger, discrimination, prejudice, integration, issues in education, acculturation, language barrier. Many of these issues relate to each other and by exploring the related issues you should include a brief clarification to identify patterns that indicate association and causation among some of the issues. Please use reliable sources that talk about a specific issue (academic journals, books, articles, etc.).
Then, choose one or two most important issue(s) and analyze the issue(s) from at least two different perspectives. Look at the issue through different lenses/different angles, e.g. how different agencies, scholarly articles, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, see, define and explain the issue (Look at individuals or groups who work directly with immigrants/refugees or who have an interest or concern in a particular issue or issues).
Analyze Intersectionality:
You will have to use a variety of perspectives and by considering fairly the other sides, you should be able to convincingly argue their positions in order to make a decision and form an opinion of your own and then explain why you did not choose that/their position(s). That’s not a challenge, it’s a chance to explore what it means to be someone else. Use critical thinking skills and think about your ultimate goal in solving the problem.
2. Ethical Reasoning Section (ULO 5.3)
This Section - Minimum 2 Pages
a) Provides ethical theories/principles and uses theories to support ethical reasoning.
b) Identifies potential objections (try to foresee potential objections to your theories and reasoning, then argue against those objections).
c) Defends against potential/opposing objections and defends ethical reasoning.
Here, you will need to apply prominent theories/principles to the issue you identified; clearly articulating potential objection to your ethical reasoning and to others’. You need to support your ethical views by naming and describing Ethical Theories and Ethical Principles - Ethical Theories and Ethical Principles.
Please remember that, ethical reasoning is the ability to identify, assess, and develop ethical arguments from a variety of ethical positions. Ethical questions concern judgments of right and wrong, good and bad, as well as matters of justice, fairness, virtue, and social responsibility. Therefore, I am expecting from you to by emphasizing ethical reasoning, which will help you to reflect rigorously on the ethical issue you chose. I am not expecting you to adopt any particular ethical position, but I want you to begin to develop a defensible ethical position of your own. This is only achievable if you give serious consideration to more than one side, when analyzing your issue.
This is going help you to identify various conflicting values in order to assess and employ various strategies for resolving value conflicts, such as, identifying good, compelling reasons from personal, arbitrary or prejudicial reasons and exploring ethical reasoning in a cross-cultural perspective.
3. Ethical Receptiveness & Application to Issues (ULO 6.4)
This Section - Minimum 2 Pages
THIS SECTION must include your analysis of refugee issues (from your ABOVE sections 1&2) So, HERE you need to apply cultural self-awareness and knowledge of diverse group frameworks (see the framework for diversity below) to your specific issue and situation.
The framework for diversity amplifies:
· Our commitment to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for all characterized by equality, respect and opportunity for all groups and individuals.
· Our commitment to enhance a welcoming and inclusive environment regardless of cultural differences, physical abilities or sexual orientation. Because, when our student body and workforce are diverse, we benefit from the many varied experiences and perspectives our members offer, making us better informed, more flexible, and more responsive to our community.
“Ethical receptiveness ”
Receptivity is presented as an important virtue that underlies and is presupposed by the concepts of empathy and caring.
a) Uses/connects analysis of issue identified in section 1.
b) Incorporates cultural-awareness and explains how this issue is inter-cultural.
c) Uses alternative approaches/solutions (utilize different perspectives that support your argument and provide alternative approaches).
d) Expresses personal/global concerns and responsibilities. e) Improves ones’ own society.
Ethical receptiveness means, for example, that I am sensitive for the suffering of others and that I exhibit two primary attributes: receptivity and responsibility.
A receptive person approaches the issue(s) with empathy and compassion, incorporates his/her cultural- awareness and transforms those feelings into action, by taking responsibility and looking for the best solution for improving his/her society. (You must use different perspectives, credible sources and support your claims). For example, if I could not be touched by the suffering of another person, I wouldn’t feel an impulse to take my responsibility for the other upon me.
Ethical receptiveness makes it possible that in my actions, I am not only guided by selfish motives, but that I can put them aside for a while and care for other people/other issues.
So, in this section, you will need to produce reasoned evaluation of different value systems and ethical claims without prejudice. And most importantly, you will need to incorporate your analysis of (ULO 6.3), and apply cultural self-awareness and knowledge of diverse group frameworks to your specific issue and situation. This section needs to be best part of your paper. This section needs to offer possible approaches/solutions (informed by awareness of diversity), which consider personal responsibility for global problems , and demonstrates disposition to work toward improving one’s ow n society.
This section will tell me if you are able to reasonably evaluate different arguments/claims without prejudice and produce an ethical argument while showing receptivity and responsibility.
Please remember, a very important part of this assignment is learning to think for yourself.
Please remember, most refugee issues do not have a "right or wrong" answer -- this is what makes them interesting to write about. You should focus less on being "right" and more on creating an ethical argument that appeals to your audience and ultimately persuades them to support your position.
Conclusion: Remind readers of multilayered issue and the importance of ethically analyzing these issues in order to provide viable solutions.
4. Follow APA or MLA guidelines
Write a minimum 6-page paper, in APA or MLA format. The page count does not include the cover page or reference pages. It must be submitted as a Word document (.doc). The paper should be double spaced, Times New Roman 12-point font.
Sources:
• Minimum 1-2 source(s) should come from class readings or media
• Paper should also include a minimum of four sources/references in the reference page.
• References page with sources in MLA or APA format must be included.
- For style, guidelines use the Purdue OWL website or an MLA or APA reference book from the library. The
Purdue site - http://owl.english.purdue.edu
ONLY your Final (fully polished) Draft Must be submitted to Blackboard Assignment and your First Draft should stay on Google drive.