Sentences with phrase «ethnic enclaves»

Ms. Harris hails from predominantly black Coney Island, but the heart of the district is the historically white ethnic enclaves of Dyker Heights and Bay Ridge, where Ms. Cucco resides.

Since many of these organizations are ethnic specific, operating within ethnic enclaves in large metropolitan centers, they manipulate subcultures impenetrable to traditional law enforcement.

In this exhibition Suh examines the assimilation process of immigrants by presenting Rainbow, a video work of interviews with Korean adoptees, and Enclave, an installation work that visualizes individualsâ $ ™ national identity formation within ethnic enclaves.

Today we see examples of walls coming down throughout the world - between nations, occasionally between religious groups, sometimes among ethnic enclaves.

Isolated European ethnic enclaves and insulated enclaves of privilege, however, have seen their boundaries opened.

There are also some emerging differences in their social network support, their relationships and involvement with ethnic enclave neighborhoods, and their household budgeting.

Thus, the deciding votes in the majority - minority district may end up getting cast in the white ethnic enclaves of Sheepshead Bay, Mill Basin and Bergen Beach, where County remains relatively strong.

Shophouses, many of them colourfully painted, can still be found in various ethnic enclaves such as Little India, Chinatown and Kampong Glam (Arab Quarter).

My parents, hoping to find acceptance for themselves and their children as Americans, gave up much of the Germanness that had defined them in the secure ethnic enclaves in which they grew up.

The urban ethnic enclave smothering.

Third, other parts of the frontier were settled by ethnic enclaves.

I love NYC because people like to preserve the good things about their own cultures, and there are many ethnic enclaves here, but we all seem to borrow the good things from the other cultures, and there are many.

Major responsibility for the change in Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan, Levine and Harmon claim, rests largely on the political, banking, and real estate establishment of Boston that decided to channel Boston's growing black population into Jewish neighborhoods rather than to scatter them in Irish, Italian, and other ethnic enclaves.

Under British control, the settlers were kept in their own ethnic enclaves, so they could not easily unite and rebel.

Despite its size and unique status, Thai Town is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating and least understood of the many Los Angeles ethnic enclaves.

According to the analysis of Census data by the the advocacy and housing organization, Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE), the Asian population in New York City is growing rapidly and dispersing beyond historical ethnic enclaves.

But Bratton said again this morning that that the unit was not investigative, and instead focused on where members of ethnic enclaves reside in the city's five boroughs.

From his chair, he locked eyes with a black - and - white photograph of Al Smith, the former speaker and governor who rose from the same ethnic enclaves Silver now represents to the highest strata of state and national politics.

More than 20 percent of the city's residents are foreign born, and one can pass through half a dozen ethnic enclaves — Japanese, Indian, Middle Eastern — in as many blocks.

While large urban centers have often served as pockets for ethnic enclaves (think Chinatown) increasingly, ethnoburbs which host concentrations of ethnicities in American suburbs, are becoming more prevalent.

In fact Iselin and Edison, qualify as «ethnoburbs» growing from larger satellite ethnic enclaves such as Queens in New York City.

You'll also find a surfeit of cultural riches, from first - rate museums to colorful ethnic enclaves and places to learn about Australia's Aboriginal heritage.

Ethnic enclaves of groups from Western Europe will be less and less important.

European ethnic enclaves have diminishing need to maintain their separate identity.

They are more and more becoming a separatist elite, retreating to ethnic enclaves in a few big cities.

For a significant part of their lives, they operate within an ethnic enclave.

But, with some ethnic enclave exceptions, Muslims adopt much of the values of their context.

They settled in an ethnic enclave of the town's Yemenite community, amid some of the saddest slums in England.

Shaffer's work, which presents how women can be forced to remain within their communities, compliments the article by Martyn Hudson, who presents an analysis of ethnic enclaves among refugee women in the United Kingdom in his article entitled, «The Spiral Plait: Integration, Arts and Migrant Women.»

Similarly, understanding why some women remain within an ethnic enclave or community can raise theories that are generalizible and applicable to both men and women, who may face different forms of social isolation, but similar impacts from social isolation.

While Mr. Stringer contended that the main focus for the city should be enforcing existing laws fairly, across all racial and ethnic enclaves, Ms. James said that Ms. Mark - Viverito was right to want to decriminalize offenses including walking through subway cars, riding a bicycle on the sidewalk and sitting in a park after dark.

Ms. Belbin and her colleagues are investigating a variety of questions related to migration into New York City, population transitions among its ethnic enclaves, and effects of historical events and trends on recent generations as well as during the last few centuries.

A fine script by director John Gray, and strong performances from an ensemble cast that includesStephen Lang, Karen Allen, and Peter Riegert add up to this moving coming of age story set in the ethnic enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn in the 1970's.

France had the mandate for the area known as Greater Syria, and in 1920 formed the State of Greater Lebanon as one of the ethnic enclaves within Syria.

Ethnic enclaves, local regions with significant concentrations of people of a particular ethnicity have always been a part of the United States, a country made up of immigrants.

Home to a dynamic set of neighborhoods and ethnic enclaves, it's hard to visit this borough and not fall in love with its lively and eclectic atmosphere.

The show is scattered over the length and breadth of the city among all socio - economic and ethnic enclaves (through Feb. 16, 2014).

Their work appears together for the first time in a deliberately eclectic and sometimes contradictory mix, with subjects ranging from the factory to the community farm, to the vibrant neighborhoods» ethnic enclaves.