Sentences with phrase «generation immigrant family»

Then a colleague on the Canadian civil society delegation pointed out that it doesn't much serve climate justice, only shifts the locus of climate injustice, if developed countries accept financial responsibility for loss and damage — then see their historic wrongs paid for by a farmer in rural Britain or a first - or second - generation immigrant family in Calgary who pay their taxes, rather than a multinational fossil that doesn't.

Through Briya's partnership with Mary's Center, there is also an emphasis on ensuring that low - income families and first - generation immigrant families have access to the resources needed to adjust and thrive.

Not exact matches

As the «Czar of Cars» discusses on CNBC's «Blue Collar Millionaires,» Gill grew up in Fresno, Calif. working in a first - generation Indian family of immigrant farm workers.

Brought to Collinsville by Dutch and German immigrants, the root has been farmed by families for generations.

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.

With municipal ID's and driver's licenses, undocumented immigrants today would be able to better provide for their families, contribute more to the economy and fully integrate into the American mainstream, just as generations of immigrants to this country have before them.»

«In the process, we have created a county that works for all of its residents, from a newborn born to immigrant parents on the West Side of Buffalo to the fourth generation of family farmer nearing retirement in Marilla.»

«These findings suggest family and community factors at play that help children in immigrant families buffer the effects of adverse childhood experiences, and that whatever these resiliency factors are, we should work towards protecting and extending them to subsequent nonimmigrant generations,» says

Some 50 percent are not recent immigrants; they are from families living in France for many generations.

So you're not going to waste your time looking halfway across the world — instead, you will have quick and easy access to all exotic singles, whether they are first generation immigrants or have had family here for many generations.

The absolute reliability in terms of family, such men are the dream guys for Russian women; more so for those Russian women who are already living in the US either as second generation immigrants or as working professionals.

The white family who, like so many others at the time, flees from South Africa in The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat also draws empathy from the filmmaker, who as a resident of South Africa herself, realized that there were whole generations of Caucasian immigrants who knew no other home.

On the heels of the self - financed, modestly budgeted 2007 drama Youth Without Youth — his first directorial outing after a ten - year hiatus — filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola remains situated in the director's chair for this semi-autobiographical family drama concerning an artistic family of immigrants whose fierce rivalries span several generations.

In Haneke's formally rigorous, narratively minimalist «Happy End,» multiple generations of a French industrialist family have almost become blind to the working man, a malaise that the two - time Palme d'Or winner suggests creates disconnection not only toward the North African immigrants and other working - class people who wait on them but among each other.

A U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance was presented to: Joe Seo for Spa Night (Director & Screenwriter: Andrew Ahn)-- Los Angeles's Korean spas serve not only as meeting places but also as a bridge between past and future for generations of immigrant families.

I hold certain identities near and dear to my heart — as a 1.75 - generation immigrant from Peru; the oldest of six children; a child of a low - income, single - parent family; a first - generation college student — the list goes on.

«It's an attractive idea in a lot of ways,» says Harvard Graduate School of Education Assistant Professor Vivian Louie, whose research looks at the role of the immigrant family in the educational experiences of second - generation Chinese Americans who are consistently presented as high academic achievers.

The project will lead the first long - term, cross-cultural study of immigrant adolescent adaptation by tracking the school and family experiences of 400 first - generation immigrants between the ages of ten and fourteen, for a period of five years.

Her working - class, first - generation parents grew up in immigrant families from Mexico and Nicaragua.

This webinar will examine what Miami - Dade has done to support its Latino students, including immigrant students and those whose families have been part of the community for generations.

In addition, immigrant families who speak languages other than English often struggle to transmit their home language to their children with many second - generation and most third - generation children having a strong or exclusive preference for English.

No surprise, the enrollment patterns suggested a bias towards Vocational High Schools as a terminal education for 1st generation immigrants and at - risk urban minorities and the College Prep High Schools would be skewed towards kids from two - parent, native born families and Caucasians even when the enrollment is based on open choice.

The character is at once dealing with a very specific situation — being a first - generation immigrant, negotiating the tricky divide between traditional family ways and the life of an American teenager — and something very universal, the need for teenagers to find their own identity and place in the world.

Whether writing about the adjustments of immigrants to a foreign land or the accommodations families make to the disruptive differences between generations, Divakaruni poignantly portrays the eternal struggle to find a balance between the pull of home and the allure of change.

I'm proud to have been the first generation of a hard working, loving, blue collar, immigrant family who grew up in Woodbridge Proper.

*** FIRST PLACE WINNER of the Florida Writers Association 2014 Royal Palm Literary Award for Biography - Published *** Begotten With Love is a sometime turbulent, sometime rollicking story spanning 150 years of American history and five generations of an immigrant's family.

What helped create LendUp — our mission, our values, and our success saving working class Americans millions of dollars, improving credit scores, and delivering over a million financial education courses — came from the hard work of LendUp's 200 + employees — whether their families have lived in the US for years, they come from a line of immigrants, are first generation Americans or they're here on visas and work permits.

In Generation (2016), a two - channel 45 - minute video installation first shown at Participant Inc. in New York and presented here in the Sert Gallery, Keegan interviews his own family members, calling out familiar yet potentially loaded words, such as feminine, masculine, love, race and immigrant.

Grounded in Parlá's personal first - generation Cuban American immigrant family story and an ever - evolving practice that concerns exiled communities and their contribution to America, Roots offers a new visual relationship with its pictorially contemplative environment in order to consider connections between local history and the past, present, and future.

Welling Court, in Queens, NYC is a city block where three - family homes intermingle with small family owned business — a nice old - fashioned model with today's 1st and 2nd generation immigrants taking a crack at an American dream.

Depending on whether the theory is aimed at religious Jews or all Jewish people, regardless of their religion or lack thereof, the trend for many Jewish immigrant families to gradually turn atheist over the generations could be argued to not fit in with the theory either.

Both Andrew and I are first generation Americans and were raised by immigrant parents so we have a lot of family abroad and spent a lot of our childhood visiting our parents» home towns.

San Francisco Supervisor Norman Yee today recognized firm partner Minette Kwok as a District 7 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month honoree for her leadership advocating for immigrant families and mentoring the next generation of Asian American leaders.

An impressive accomplishment on its own, but the son of Irish immigrants would be particularly proud today knowing that he started a family tradition of legal service that has stretched through five generations.

Born to Italian immigrants, my Mom did what most 1st generation Italian - American kids do: she joined the family Environmental Drilling business (honestly, she probably started there around age 6 - labeling soil sample jars).

Experiencing stronger family relationships — i.e., greater family allocentrism — allows for more efficient communication and transfer of heritage culture values from one generation of immigrants to successive generations [5].