Sentences with phrase «from an immigrant family with»

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Though Thiel himself is an immigrant, having arrived in the U.S. from Germany with his family in the 1970s, back in 2008 he reportedly donated $ 1 million to NumbersUSA, a group dedicated to reducing immigration to pre-1965 levels.

This style of living emerged in the mid-nineteenth century and offered men who were dislocated from family — usually immigrants or young workmen looking for opportunities in a new city — a supportive environment with more than just a room and bed.

By official statistics, thirteen percent of Americans are poor today» many of them immigrants of the last few years who will not long remain poor, and measured by a standard that counts as poor families with cash income (not income in kind, from welfare benefits, for example) up to about twenty thousand dollars for a family of four.

But by the end of the 1990s the stockyards had closed, and today many of the families of the South High soccer players — with immigrant parents from not only Mexico but also Central America, Southeast Asia and Africa — live in the housing stock abandoned by those Europeans and work in the lone meatpacking plant, a few blocks from the school.

Or the low - income kids turn out to be somehow atypical — they go to a selective school with an entrance exam, or they're recent immigrants from Asia or Eastern Europe rather than black or Latino kids from families with long poverty histories.

You'd think that in my genetic makeup, with so many family members that are direct immigrants or only one generation removed from that, I'd be around 25 percent of each ethnicity.

Whereas, Mr. Paladino acknowledged that he made these statements; And, Mr. Paladino is an elected official charged with the responsibility to represent children and families in a district comprised of over 70 % Black, Brown, Asian, Immigrant and other minority students and families; And, Mr. Paladino took an oath to ensure that students are afforded an environment which is free from fear and respects diversity within the school district and the community and is subject to all district policies; And,

In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Javid said the Windrush scandal felt «very personal» to him coming from a family of immigrants - «it could have been me, my mum or my dad».

Cuomo, in exchange for an endorsement from the left leaning Working Families Party, promised to help reunite the two Democratic factions in order to achieve passage of several progressive issues, including public campaign financing, a women's equality act with an abortion rights provision, and a measure to give college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, known as the Dream Act.

By way of biography Malliotakis described herself as the child of immigrants, with a mother from Cuba and a father from Greece, who grew up spending a great deal of time in their family business in Sunset Park.

Citizenship benefits immigrants through stronger protections from deportation, the right to vote and run for elected office, and the ability to assist more family members with immigrating to the United States.

Yatziri Tovar is an undocumented immigrant who came with her family from Mexico when she was 2 years old.

The event will feature a video introduction from national DREAM activist Jose Antonio Vargas and a Town Hall forum with Assemblyman Francisco, lead sponsor of the New York State Dream Act, to bring together undocumented New Yorkers to share their stories, ask questions, and learn what the next Public Advocate can do to empower immigrant families.

She hails from a family of Italian immigrants and speaks Italian along with basic Spanish.

Eugenia Brin explained that in 1979 the Brin family, from Russia, was deciding between Israel and the United States, and an organization called the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society helped them with their move to Maryland.

For the study, a child from an immigrant family was defined as a foreign - born or U.S. - born child with at least one foreign - born parent.

The amount of money that the AND receives from the food industry is fairly insignificant in terms of the AND's overall budget, but the work that thousands of registered dietitians are doing in under - served communities, with children and families, with the elderly, with immigrants in helping improve health is worth billions of dollars in terms of health care savings.

A look into the life of a Bangladeshi immigrant living in Brick Lane, London, with her family & husband from an arranged marriage.

This heavyweight awards candidate from first - time director Vadim Perelman stars Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly and is based on Andre Dubus's book about an Iranian immigrant and his family's battle in the US over a house he buys in an auction, with tragic consequences.

Particularly notable are the obsession with technology and surveillance from Benny's Video, here updated from VHS to smartphones and the Internet; the racial suspicion of Code Unknown; the revenge nightmare from Hidden; the euthanasia theme from Amour (which also featured Trintignant and Huppert as father and daughter, suggesting a sequel of sorts), as well as more general themes of family dysfunction and the obliviousness of the well - to - do towards immigrants — it's no coincidence that the film takes place in Calais, yet never once shows the Migrant Jungle.

Elsewhere in the show, Lupita Nyong» o and Kumail Nanjiani noted they both come from immigrant families and pledged to continue to stand with the «Dreamers.»

The son of an immigrant family from Morocco, now residing in a depressingly anonymous Netherlands suburb, Majid is a fiercely talented kickboxer with a criminal past who finds it difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

My family arrived from Puerto Rico filled with the dreams that permeate immigrant thinking.

Our students, many of whom are immigrants, used Gerda Weissmann Klein's tale of loss and survival and of separation from family and country, to craft personal poems that connected the character's own words with their own.

Immigrant students from Africa and Mexico can compare family collard recipes with African American students.

«charter schools — public schools — are clearly laying out obstacles bigger than those in the applications of private universities, with requirements that put low - income students, foster children and those from poorly educated or immigrant families at a disadvantage.

The report documents Latino, African American, and Muslim children, and children of immigrants, terrified and fighting with peers; reporting slurs and threats from peers that Trump would hurt or kill their families; and asking teachers whether their entire families (even as American citizens) would be deported, walled off or worse by Trump.

The course develops an understanding of program evaluation measures, and requires students to be able to demonstrate this knowledge for purposes of making data based decisions to develop intervention plans for a variety of learners including students with disabilities and other special concerns such as youth from foster, immigrant and migrant families, students who are at risk and students from language diverse communities.

Race / ethnicity and English - language - learner (ELL) status are inadequate proxies for immigrant status, but this brief illustrates that students from immigrant families are a group that requires researchers», policy makers», and educators» attention.This brief draws on interviews conducted with 47 eighth grade students and 27 parents during the 2008 - 09 school year, including 25 students from immigrant families and 16 immigrant parents.

So districts must be prepared to serve every child — including children with disabilities, children from immigrant families and dual - language learners, children who are experiencing homelessness, and children who've experienced trauma.

Revere High School offers a respectful and safe environment for its diverse students — more than 12 percent of whom are immigrants and one - third who come from low - income families — with a Newcomers Academy, its own «genius bar,» culturally responsive instruction and other innovative programs designed to provide a personalized, rigorous and purposeful education while meeting the complex needs of the diverse student body.

Children in immigrant families originating in Mexico and from Asian countries are under represented in center - based care compared with their representation in the population.

Regression models with nationally representative data revealed that children from Mexican immigrant families were overrepresented in parental care and underrepresented in center - based care compared to their native peers from other race / ethnic populations, which helped to explain a significant but small portion of their generally lower rates of both math achievement and externalizing symptoms in kindergarten.

For example, in one school with a high percentage of students whose families are immigrants from Mexico, teams ask parents to plan celebrations for holidays like Day of the Dead.

Schools with well - established relationships among administrators, teachers, and immigrant families were more successful in recruiting and retaining team members from traditionally marginalized groups and in making progress toward their goals.

If educators assume that the main purpose of working with families is to promote academic achievement in the classroom and at home, they can miss other important ways in which Mexican American and other immigrant families support their children's development, such as by seeking out advice from trusted members of the community or by participating in church or other community organizations (Poza, Brooks, & Valdés, 2014).

Many English Learners represent the newest members of our society (including recently arrived immigrants and children of immigrants) who bring a rich diversity of cultural backgrounds and come from families with rich social and linguistic experiences.

Thirteen - year - old Karina, a member of a large immigrant family from Haiti, deals with growing up in an abusive and dysfunctional home dominated by her horrifying stepfather.

Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.

The year is 1924, and the remote mines of Appalachia have filled with families like Emma's, poor immigrant laborers building new lives half a world away from the island of Sicily.

In this nuanced story filled with well - developed characters, three eighth - grade girls from immigrant families face prejudice in their affluent New Jersey suburb.

A wealthy Chinese immigrant family finds their fortunes dashed and their future in question — with surprisingly hilarious results — in this rollicking debut novel from the Los Angeles - based Chang, a YA editor at Goodreads who has also worked as a journalist and editor.

ke - lan - tan House, a historical and peaceful place to stay in the middle of Penang concrete jungle.The house originally was built by the immigrant from China who came for business or skill labor work in Malaya.It has more than 100 years history.ke - lan - tan House is a 2 storey tall building with 10 rooms.Three of the room is located at the ground floor and the rest of them located at the first floor.There are two rooms which we specially design for family with children.The room consists of a queen size bed and two single beds for their kids.The center of attraction in ke - lan - tan House would be the master bedroom.

«From the Margins» juxtaposes his paintings with those of a contemporary, painter Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984), who was from a Russian Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn and experienced a similar professional receptFrom the Margins» juxtaposes his paintings with those of a contemporary, painter Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984), who was from a Russian Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn and experienced a similar professional receptfrom a Russian Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn and experienced a similar professional reception.

There are many ways an immigrant could prove they were once in a genuine relationship without continuing to live with an abusive spouse: for example, immigration officers often rely on documented love letters, text messages, emails, photos from events like weddings and anniversaries, marriage certificates, children's birth certificates, letters from family or friends, and sworn affidavits.

The effectiveness of this model of sustained nurse home visiting for families from immigrant communities, the impact of nurse home visiting when delivered as a component within a comprehensive child and family health and development service system, 10 11 and the efficacy for older, multiparous compared with teenage first - time mothers, remains largely unexplored.

In addition, understanding these immigrant experiences from a strength - based perspectives and what coping strategies these families used to deal with life challenges helps practitioners recognize what the clients» service needs are and how to work more successfully with these families at reunification.

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The Bridging Cultures Project was designed to train teachers at the preschool and elementary level to become aware of the collectivistic or familistic cultural orientation that children from Latino immigrant families with roots in Mexico or Central America bring with them from home into their school environments.

Nationally, Latino children from immigrant families face obstacles on every measure included in this index with the exception that they were more likely to live in two - parent households.