Sentences with phrase «about immigrant experiences»

This is a tale with traditional points about the immigrant experience which still manages to come over as fresh, expertly - crafted and important.

The film is also about more than Bosnia: it's about the immigrant experience in general; it's about tolerance; it's about making a difference; it's about learning to make the best of what one has.

In the past several years, the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) has supported and funded digital games, including Mission US: City of Immigrants, a game about the immigrant experience.

I shared Jewish Time Jump, an ARIS location - based game about the immigrant experience.

Find creative writing activities about the immigrant experience, historical time lines of the civil rights movement, slideshows of famous women suffragists, art activities for celebrating community helpers, lesson plans for learning more about wars and the soldiers who fight them, and much more.

Great America Dreaming also includes stories, photoessays, monologues, and cartoon narratives about the immigrant experience produced by high school students in Chicago, Tucson, Oakland, and Casco, Maine.

Not exact matches

I want to be clear about what I mean by this, because many people believe this issue relates to current skilled labour shortages; some think it applies to our need to attract more professionals such as doctors, engineers and scientists; while others focus on the glass ceiling that many existing immigrants and visible minorities experience.

This includes designing policy programs to provide detailed information about the changing Chinese economy, to develop platforms for sharing experiences and expertise among investing firms, and to mobilize the knowledge bases of transnational immigrant communities in Canada.

Talk about your own family's immigrant experience («Great - Grandma came from Italy and had to work very hard» or some such) or talk about the ways our world has been shaped by immigrants («What would life be like today without pizza?»).

But their distinctive experience among the groups who came to the US in this period speaks to today's debates about immigration — and especially to the ways immigrants integrate into new societies.

Also at 5:30 p.m., the city of Albany hosts a panel discussion about the experience of refugees and immigrants and ways to welcome and support them, Albany City Hall Rotunda, 24 Eagle St., Albany.

The organizers are thinking about weekly programs, internships and other opportunities to enrich the immigrants» Ulster County experiences.

Seeking to turn the episode to Liu's advantage, other speakers sought to portray Jamy Liu's experience — and her reticence about it — as a common thread through the city's immigrant and working communities

This is not about race or class or the plight of immigrants but about whether politicians stretch the truth for their own convenience to take advantage of the true experience of millions of immigrants who work long hours in substandard environments for substandard wages.

And he will be meeting with other first - and second - generation elected officials from Arizona and California tonight and tomorrow in Washington, D.C. to talk about the bill and other issues pertaining to the immigrant experience.

He's also sensitive and thoughtful, especially about matters relating to the immigrant experience, which is the subject of his new memoir, «No Land's Man.»

There was one excellent (positive) line Coughlin has about immigrants that I thought reflected some of the tension this country is experiencing in the present day (a few people in my theater quietly cheered), but even that solid piece of dialogue was delivered woodenly and emotionlessly.

Having achieved the American dream (without class, religion, or non-wacky immigrants ever coloring their experiences), what else could these white people have to worry about besides sex and optimal emotional fulfillment?

Similar to Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (I bet everyone speaks about those two movies in the same breath all the time) in the way it portrays the immigrant experience through a nonstandard lens, Paddington may not be biting, but it is effective.

The week prior, Reyes and her community school manager, Lauren Markham, scaffold the experience in two ways: They preview each itinerary and then facilitate reading circles in which teachers learn more about the specific immigrant community they will be visiting.

«Overall, the majority of immigrant teachers are satisfied personally and professionally about their experiences migrating to Australia,» says Reid.

«Upon entering the Ed School, I aspired to learn as much as I could about immigrant students» experiences through my coursework and research,» Freeman says.

A three - page essay about Malone's experience coming to America and attending school accompanied the dictionary accession, which may be part of an exhibit on the immigrant's life in the coming years.

As a result, many immigrant students and their families (documented and not) are experiencing anxiety and fear about their futures.

KD: What did you learn about how immigrant kids experience American schools that might be helpful to other reporters?

Students read newspaper articles, diaries, and histories about immigrants» experiences followed by daily work in small groups on such tasks as filling in missing words, making word associations, and playing charades.

In the beginning, when I was trying to sell my first novel, I had a weird experience of editors really wanting me to write, sort of magic realism set in the Caribbean, or about recent immigrants with a magical ability (I've had two editors actually give me that logline and ask if I'd be interested in writing that story, but it's just not there for me, I've got other stories still to tell).

-LSB-...] just watched Hugh Howey's vlog, Confessions of a Digital Immigrant, which he posted a couple of weeks ago, and it got me thinking about my own experience of going -LSB-...]

We recently spoke with Phi, an award - winning poet and community activist, and Bui, a graphic novelist who's won recent acclaim for her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (2017), about their debut picture book, their collaboration, and how their own experiences growing up as Vietnamese immigrants in America helped inform the book.

Picture books about immigrant families are certainly nothing new, but renewed attention to immigrant experiences has ushered in a prodigious crop of new titles, and few are as evocative or heartening as Bao Phi and Thi Bui's A Different Pond.

But with (for example) a marvelous riff on the generic Chinese restaurant that exists at the edges of many towns in the Midwest, the novel makes clear that it is exploring a different sort of immigrant experience than we often read about — call it the Middle America Asian - American experience.

Simultaneously rooted in a particular immigrant experience while remaining completely accessible to others, it is an immigrant story, an American story, a coming of age story, a story about family journeys, and, ultimately, a story about hope, loss, and change.

Never didactic and often hilarious, this debut novel about a Muslim teen in Australia shows the diversity of her immigrant community as well as the discrimination and family struggles she experiences.

Broadly interviews artist - friends Precious Okoyomon and Phoebe Collings - James about their experiences as immigrant black women and how their identities inform their respective works.

We talk to Tania Bruguera about her Immigrant Movement International project in Queens and her experience in Cuba, then we chat

Reason's Oxymoron features, for instance, interviews with ethno - psychologists about the experience of immigrants adjusting to life in a different culture.

It's about her experience of being African, from Kenya, and how The United States» system of race consciousness and profiling compounds the immigrant experience by using such superficial phenotypes like hair, skin color, and dress as a basis to judge.

Other select projects include: Artistic Producer for the 4th annual Chicago Home Theater Festival, a 10 - day festival of artistic exchange within neighborhoods that have experienced systemic disinvestment featuring narratives by and about artists of color, women and femmes, migrants and immigrants, LGBTQ artists, and artists with disabilities (2016), and Project Coordinator for Our Miss Brooks: A Centennial Celebration, a national a year - long multidisciplinary celebration on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks (2017).

Through this process, the artist's works employ nuanced and emotive narratives that evoke an inquiry about identity, the immigrant experience, and the history of -LSB-...]

Through this process, the artist's works employ nuanced and emotive narratives that evoke an inquiry about identity, the immigrant experience, and the history of portraiture.

In this new work, Dardot will amplify the voices and experiences of San Jose's varied immigrant communities, and honor the challenges of their experience in the context of a divisive national conversation about immigrants and American identity.

The Aces Connections Blog provides inspiring stories, updates, and advice about «migration experience» and living in Canada as immigrants.

Fiodembo also includes a section of recommendations for minority nurses based on her experience as an immigrant to the U.S. Frequency about 1 post per month.

In addition, little knowledge is available on the effect of parenting support programmes delivered to immigrant parents.24 The few studies available have mostly shown little or no improvement in the mental health of immigrant parents25 26 or even poorer outcomes for immigrant families27 and families with low socioeconomic status.28 Scarcity of studies in this area may simply because few immigrant parents participate in such programmes.24 Several studies have reported difficulties in recruiting and retaining immigrant parents in parenting support programmes.29 30 Factors such as belonging to an ethnic minority, low socioeconomic status, practical aspects or experienced alienation and discrimination all contribute to low participation.28 31 Other studies have demonstrated that low participation and a high dropout rate of immigrant parents are associated with a lack of cultural sensitivity in the intervention, poor information about the parenting programme and lack of trust towards professionals.24 A qualitative study conducted with Somali - born parents in Sweden showed that Somali parents experienced many societal challenges in the new country and in their parenting behaviours.