IMMERSION

The experience of Immersion changes Sanjay. Though his team feels otherwise, his early “expert” interviews with local social workers and refugee agencies seem to confirm his suspicions that things are not all that bad for local refugees. This data, interpreted through Sanjay’s own personal experiences, sets up a comparison between the local refugees’ experience and the objectively worse ones his own father once faced, leaving him unsure that a serious problem exists. Then he spends time with a boy with holes in his shoes, forging an emotional connection. He develops empathy for Kwame, and for the other refugees he later