Sentences with phrase «american children refugee»

Yoshua Okón: Oracle is a three - channel video installation that explores the social and political contradictions of the ongoing Central American children refugee crisis, immigration and the inadequacies of borders and nationalism.

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UNC medical student Yousef Abu - Salha fulfilled a dream of caring for child refugees from Syria, while honoring the legacy of his slain sisters Yusor and Razan and his best friend Deah, who are remembered throughout the United States and the world as the three young Muslim Americans who were senselessly murdered in Chapel Hill in February 2015.

To further consider JUPITER»S MOON, in which refugees are being chased and shot down by Hungarian police Holocaust - style, THE FLORIDA PROJECT, where hidden homelessness eats away the American dream for children born in impoverished households, and LOVELESS, a cautionary tale that sheds light on issues of abandonment and toxic selfishness seen in: no wonder everybody just wants to die in HAPPY END?

In these communities of some 7,000 people altogether, descendants of Dust Bowl refugees live near grandchildren of Japanese - American internment camp survivors, a taqueria is housed in the Punjabi - owned market, and children of farmers, farmworkers, doctors, and packing - house employees sit side by side in school.

In a recent poll, 69 percent of Americans surveyed said children should be treated as refugees and should be allowed to stay.

Earlier this month, the American Civil Liberties Union revealed in a lawsuit on behalf of three undocumented immigrant youth that the federal agency is teaming up with police departments (including the 250 law enforcement agencies operated by traditional district schools) to pick up, detain, and ultimately, deport unaccompanied refugee children and other undocumented minors.

So far, we have plans to run service learning programming abroad in Cambodia, Brazil and Guatemala as well as locally with refugee and American Indian children.

Throughout the book, told in alternating stories of refugee camps in Africa and living as an immigrant in affluent American suburbs as a foster child, the reader comes to realize that even as an adult, successful American citizen, Clemantine has yet to come to a place in her life where all the broken pieces fit together as a whole.

Other firm attorneys worked on high - profile pro bono cases, traveled to refugee camps in Southeast Asia to provide legal advice, co-chaired the National Conference of Vietnamese American Attorneys, taught martial arts to underprivileged children, taught legal issues to spanish - only speaking immigrants, organized national volleyball tournaments for at - risk youth, and assisted victims of domestic violence.

She manages the Central American Minors Refugee and Parole Program at Catholic Charities where she assists parents living in the United States to bring their children as refugees / parolees into the United States.

Arroyo and Eth (1996) have similarly observed contrasting symptom profiles between Latin American and South East Asian refugee children, where the former display more prevalent academic and conduct problems.

This tendency to manifest disorders of a psychosocial nature is consistent with Rousseau, Drapeau and Corin (1996) who found a positive association between learning difficulties, academic achievement and emotional problems in South East Asian and Central American refugee children in the US.

Head Start programs serve diverse children and families including American Indian and Alaska Native communities, migrant and seasonal workers, immigrants, refugees, and more; efforts to understand these programs should be as inclusive as possible of the breadth of communities and families served across the United States.