Sentences with phrase «faced by immigrant»

The diversity of student backgrounds is reflected in their research interests, which include the development of compassion and gratitude in children, the challenges faced by immigrant children and corporate leadership coaching.

Through their stories, viewers gain insight into situations and challenges faced by immigrant students and their families.

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Immigrants who avoid ICE face the possibility of exploitation by employers: A 2008 survey from the National Employment Law Project found that 51 % of all undocumented workers in New York City were underpaid by more than $ 1 per hour, and 47 % said they were required to work after sustaining an injury on the job.

For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

A federal judge in Detroit has temporarily halted the deportation of more than 100 Iraqi nationals - predominantly Chaldean Christians - detained in what appeared to be a bid by US officials to clear a back - log of immigrants facing deportations.

He has also protected Iraqi immigrants that could possibly face persecution, torture or death if the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported them by extending the order nationwide, following a request from lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union and other immigrant rights advocates.

In one such case, Noonan held for a Salvadoran immigrant facing deportation who testified that she had been repeatedly beaten, raped, and threatened by a Salvadoran Army sergeant because he believed she was a political subversive.

Mr Stenzel and Joanna Mludzinska of the Polish Social and Cultural Association both claimed that many immigrants had faced bullying at work since the poll including hurtful comments from customers as well as discrimination by bosses

The ad is funded by the group New Yorkers United Together, a nonprofit that says in the ad that it will provide legal aid to immigrants facing threats of deportation from the federal government.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched a state hotline Sunday to assist immigrants affected by President Trump's executive order on immigration, vowing legal assistance to anyone facing detainment.

Britain's immigrant detention system facing what could be its greatest ever crisis, after a damning report by MPs and peers was released amid a continued scandal over racism and violence at Yarl's Wood

A central message of the May Day marchers was to end the use of private prisons by immigration agents to house undocumented immigrants awaiting a hearing or facing deportation.

The release notes that this isn't the first time Cuomo has moved to protect immigrants in the face of what he sees as a hostile atmosphere created by the Trump administration.

The IDNYC program, launched by de Blasio's administration in 2015, aimed to remove barriers that some New Yorkers face in obtaining identification — including undocumented immigrants, the homeless, transgendered individuals, and the formerly incarcerated — granting them access to important city services.

IDC Leader Jeffrey Klein (D - Bronx) said that «these vital funds knock down the financial wall immigrants face during deportation hearings by providing free legal assistance.»

The four candidates now being backed by MRA, in statements accompanying the announcement, noted the importance of MRA's advocacy at a time when immigrant communities face a volatile political climate at the national level.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd is facing renewed calls to quit after admitting that her department does have targets for removing illegal immigrants from the UK - a day after denying that was the case in a grilling by MPs.

The BBC reported that in April 2016, Mr Hammond was told by Caribbean ministers about immigrants facing deportation.

Her book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

Her forthcoming book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

Our Children Our Schools: A Blueprint for Creating Partnerships Between Immigrant Families and New York City Public Schools Over 60 % of children in New York City public schools are immigrants or the children of immigrants, but this report by Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) shows that immigrant families face significant obstacles to participating in their children's eImmigrant Families and New York City Public Schools Over 60 % of children in New York City public schools are immigrants or the children of immigrants, but this report by Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) shows that immigrant families face significant obstacles to participating in their children's eimmigrant families face significant obstacles to participating in their children's education.

In his second exhibition with the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Meschac Gaba executes a powerful narrative on cultural identities and the contemporary issues faced by refugees and immigrants.

The people who have left, whether categorized as refugee, immigrant or exile, have all faced the vitriol of xenophobic rhetoric propagated by conservative groups and mentalities.

Parties abound and the ACLU pairs up with the Standard Hotel for pop - up shop selling products artist - designed products to raise awareness about the deportation threats faced by young immigrants.

Invited by The Armory Show, JR's «So Close,» presented by Artsy and Jeffrey Deitch at the entry to Pier 94, faces us with a line of immigrants, waiting.

Akunyili Crosby's latest works, as seen in Baltimore, take a decidedly heavier turn, however, exploring the implications of casual racism faced by the artist as an immigrant in America.

«The challenges of court proceedings for immigrants and refugees are often compounded by language barriers and by isolation victims may face coming from traditionally patriarchal communities,» Ritacco says.

Refugees may also experience poorer health due to conditions they face when they arrive in Canada including delays in obtaining health care, language difficulties, and a lack of finances, transportation, and knowledge of the health care system: Edward Ng, Claudia Sanmartin and Douglas G. Manuel, Health Reports — Acute care hospitalization, by immigrant category: Linking hospital data and the Immigrant Landing File in Canada (August 17, 2016): online, Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2016008/article/14648immigrant category: Linking hospital data and the Immigrant Landing File in Canada (August 17, 2016): online, Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2016008/article/14648Immigrant Landing File in Canada (August 17, 2016): online, Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2016008/article/14648-eng.htm.

This kind of intervention by the Quebec government is an indication of the difficulties the province faces ensuring the French language remains predominant despite large English - speaking and immigrant populations.

Staffed by the Immigrant Defense Project, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, the Defending Immigrants Partnership collaborates with public defender offices and criminal defense organizations on behalf of noncitizens facing criminal charges.

First, language barriers faced by different groups (Indigenous people, Francophone minorities outside Québec, Anglophones in Québec and immigrants) are a significant component of the access to justice problems.

Speaking at a panel discussion before an audience at the American Bar Association's annual meeting in New York City, 2nd circuit judge Robert Katzmann and 9th circuit judge M. Margaret McKeown described a crisis fueled by increased enforcement and detention, bad or non-existent lawyering for immigrants facing deportation, as well as overwhelmed immigration judges and appeal judges.

Our comparative, multivocal ethnographic study of teachers in five U.S. cities in a number of early childhood settings suggests that immigrant teachers often experience difficulty applying their cultural knowledge to the education and care of young children of immigrants because they face a dilemma between their pedagogical training and their cultural knowledge; between the expectations of their fellow teachers and of parents; and between the goals of being culturally responsive to children, families, and their community and being perceived as professional by their fellow teachers and their superiors.

This year's Race for Results provides detailed data on disparities by race and ethnicity that must be closed in order to improve outcomes for all children and also includes recommendations to policymakers on addressing the specific barriers immigrant children and children of immigrants face.

OTTAWA — Immigrant women in Canada face greater employment barriers and earn less money than both male immigrants and Canadian - born women, data compiled by the immigration department suggests.

«Relatively weaker earnings growth vis - à - vis native - born Canadians is one possible factor behind the apparent difficulty faced by some recent immigrant households in making the transition from renter to homeowner,» says the Scotia Economics report.