Sentences with phrase «as immigrants»

The U.S. has about 75 million millennials — people born from 1980 and 1995 — a cohort expected this year to surpass the baby boom generation in absolute numbers as immigrants swell the younger group and boomers die off, according to a January report by the Pew Research Center.

As immigrants who spoke little English, they worked relentlessly for years and instilled that discipline on myself.

Even as immigrants continue to make the United States more diverse, the places from which they come are increasingly concentrated.

As Eskimos supposedly «rub noses» in lieu of a handshake, and Italians brought with them as immigrants in the early 60's, the custom of kissing BOTH cheeks, (totally foreign, and invasive, to many living here already) and in our own culture, the etiquette requirement for a man never to shake hands with a woman unless she offers her hand FIRST; each culture has its own idiosyncrasies and lexicon puzzles.

Respondents older than 75 years leave the panel but, as immigrants and young people are added to the sample, each wave also mirrors the Swedish population at the time and can, thus, be used as cross-sections.

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

In addition, race and their status as immigrants or refugees may make them vulnerable to discriminatory behavior by those in control of economic and social benefits including employment, education, housing, health care and legal benefits: Stephen Gaetz, Street Justice: Homeless Youth and Access to Justice (Toronto: Justice for Children and Youth, 2002) at 43 - 46.

I also took some issue with the perhaps inordinate emphasis on their status as immigrants, who didn't pay taxes, especially in a culture and climate of growing xenophobia.

Mr. Pettkus and Miss Becker came to Canada from central Europe, separately, as immigrants, in 1954.

Williamsburg is a neighborhood in Brooklyn whose legacy has changed as immigrants and economics affect who can live there.

Meanwhile Rudd has signed Kyoto, thereby saying to India, «You go ahead and increase your population each year by the size of Australia's population, but don't do anything about emissions — we'll take care of that, and we'll take your excess people as immigrants.»

Wonder if they take Greens as immigrants.

Comparing current global conditions to the turmoil that followed each of the World Wars, he has said the international exhibition is a response to economic, political and social crises, including «a humanitarian catastrophe on the high seas, deserts, and borderlands, as immigrants, refugees, and desperate peoples seek refuge in seemingly calmer and prosperous lands,» and the uncertainty and insecurity that accompanies such desperate disorder.

reflecting on the liminal space between our colonial heritage and our experience as immigrants.»

Brighton Museum's Old Reference Library becomes a repository for those, both celebrated and unfamiliar, who as immigrants to this country, made unique contributions to what we regard as «British» culture.

In response to the local community surrounding Cuchifritos and Essex Street Market, as well as the history of the Lower East Side as Loisaida, and the curators» personal investment as immigrants and first generation, Sweety's brings together four artists: Cecilia Gentili, Emanuel Xavier, Raul Gonzalez III, Elia Alba.

Audience members who do not self - identify as immigrants will be privileged listeners to this dialogue.

I wouldn't be here if my great - grandparents hadn't been allowed into the US as immigrants fleeing persecution, nor would my wife, who immigrated from Iran, one of the countries from which refugees, permanent US residents, immigrants and visitors are being collectively punished — targeted and discriminated against.

Funnily enough, I would even say a distinction could be made between black Americans and black Canadians of Afro - Caribbean descent: because as immigrants we often were no strangers to travel.

Today, the schemes are often run by unscrupulous Wall Street investment firms that are unloading portfolios of foreclosed homes and «threatening communities of color,» as well as immigrants, according to a report issued Thursday by the nonprofit National Consumer Law Center.

There are credit cards for all different stripes of first - timers — such as immigrants, students and those with no credit.

As immigrants from Poland, they worked very hard to earn money.

Last year, Canada welcomed more than half a million newcomers to our country as immigrants, international students and temporary foreign workers.

The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard College are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that the infiltration of foreign superstitions into American minds will prove as corrupting as the immigrants arriving at Boston Harbor.

As immigrants, my parents came to this country in search of opportunity, and taught me from their experience the power that education has to open doors.

As immigrants have more children, the minority growth rate «tends to be native - born minorities instead of immigrants.»

«We need to reconceptualize immigrant parent involvement to really bring into conversation the needs of immigrant parents as immigrants,» she said.

Arizona students will need to get sixty of the hundred questions correct in order to graduate — the same ratio as immigrants to our country seeking citizenship.

This transformation was due mainly to the economic boom of the 1990s, as immigrants, many of them from Latin America and the Marshall...

That percentage remains the same when the students are identified specifically as immigrants.

an assessment of the needs of understudied populations, such as immigrants from Africa or the Caribbean

Having arrived in America as immigrants and then ultimately attaining the American dream, the film honors the legacy of the Reys by interweaving archival footage and interviews with them, their friends and experts, along with animated sequences in a style inspired by the world of Curious George.»

Presenting the Oscar for Best Production Design, the actors related their own experience as immigrants to that of undocumented immigrants hoping to stay in the U.S.

After the film, the solitary viewer enters a long dark hallway that features short video installations introducing the real - life Latinos who inspired the story and depicting the struggles they face as immigrants today.

More than 200 bodies a year turn up in the Sonoran, a number that has increased over the past decade as immigrants avoid urban areas and attempt to reach the United States by more remote routes, often through Arizona.

They came as immigrants to a newfound land, pushed out the creatures that preceded them, and now multiply at a frightening rate.

She also blasted Dr. Ben Carson, Trump's secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, for referring to slaves as immigrants and extended an invitation to him to check out New York City's housing.

If the majority leader and the Senate Republicans were serious about addressing the issues affecting Latinos, they would have asked their Latino counterparts in the Senate to help them organize a conference that reflects the issues that are impacting Latinos throughout the state such as immigrants» rights issues as well as the need to extend the millionaire's tax so that New York State is able to continue funding important services like education, housing, and healthcare that are so critical to our communities.»

As example; look at educational attainment of education - valuing immigrant communities - while former Soviets or Asians aren't poor (as far as immigrants go), they aren't exactly old WASP money rich.

Total population tallies include non-voting residents, such as immigrants residing in the country without legal permission, prisoners, and children.

Also, (1) does the question include or exclude non-Arab Muslims (e.g. Iranians, Pakistanis, Indonesians, or Uzbeks) as immigrants?

«To me, our concerns as immigrants and low - wage workers are not being addressed enough.

The comfort factor requires a counter-factual belief that the pain of cuts can be borne wholly by out - groups such as immigrants, tattoo'd welfare claimants (but not pensioners) and bankers.

Section 1 allows suspension of the entry into the US, as immigrants or non-immigrants of public officials or former public officials accused of grand corruption, which has or had serious adverse effects on the national interests of the United States.

«Significantly, Proclamation 7750 underscores that it is in the interests of the United States to act to restrict the international travel and to suspend the entry into the United States, as immigrants or non-immigrants, of certain persons who have committed, participated in, or are beneficiaries of corruption in the performance of public functions.

I hereby proclaim that the immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of aliens from countries referred to in section 217 (a)(12) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1187 (a)(12), would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, and I hereby suspend entry into the United States, as immigrants and nonimmigrants, of such persons for 90 days from the date of this order -LSB-...].

«My parents came here as immigrants in the sixties and my dad would tell me stories of when he first came here by himself and my mum was still in Pakistan.

«Approximately 30 percent of those who have come as immigrants are elderly.»

As immigrants and subsequent generations born in America become a larger segment of the population, they have worked hard to become part of the melting pot while also holding onto the aspects of their cultural heritage they hold dear.

Although the region was visited by traders from China for centuries, the first main Chinese influx came in 1820s, as immigrants worked as construction workers on the building of Singapore, and the second wave of laborers came in the 1840s to work the tin mines.