Sentences with phrase «generation immigrant parents»

Lam's first book, a collection of interconnected short stories, opens with «How To Get Into Medical School, Part 1, a story which at first glance treads familiar territory - an Asian girl of first generation immigrant parents finds herself torn between her budding love for fellow medical student Fitz (an unsuitable boy by dint of him not being Asian) and her drive to succeed at the highest level as a medical student.

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Every New Year's Day, many first - generation immigrants tell their parents «happy birthday» because they don't know otherwise.

My parents and in - laws are children of the second - generation; born in America and raised in the last years of the depression, they inherited the immigrant's unconditional passion for the new country, and happily melted into the pot» Americanizing their own names and Christening their children John instead of Gianni; Mary instead of Maria.

So she conducted her research at two sites, one of them a more or less typical second - generation congregation (which she calls «Grace») that meets in the same building as its parent Korean immigrant congregation, and the other («Manna») a predominantly Asian American but remarkably multiethnic congregation that meets in a building owned by an African - American congregation.

It's territory they know well: Each of the of members is either a first generation immigrant, or the children of immigrant parents.

They were typical second - generation immigrants, freely mixing the heritage of their parents with the culture of their birth.

The sons and daughters of earlier generations of immigrants are hearing the same racist insults that were once directed at their parents.

There was his burning passion, the quality that pushed Cuomo from his first - generation Italian immigrants parents» grocery store in Queens to law school to mediating an ugly dispute over low - income housing.

«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.»

Second - generation immigrants show increased risk relative to their parents, and rates are highest among those of African heritage.

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.

Of those Latino students, more than half will be second - generation Americans, born in the United States to at least one parent who is an immigrant.

She recently completed a study of 68 second - generation Chinese Americans in the New York City area, looking at their various paths to college and the role their immigrant parents played in their development.

Daughter to Mexican immigrant parents who were in search of a better life in the U.S., and as a first - generation college student, this year and this award have been beyond our wildest dreams.

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

You have dismissed the realization that a majority of immigrants and first - generation low socioeconomic Spanish - speaking parents WANT that for their children, not Spanish - first «Bilingual Education» gradually transitioning tto English without ever getting there all the way to my university, Cal State LA.

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.

With grace and respect, Gilbert manages to address the existential quandaries of both second - generation American teens and their immigrant parents who must make profoundly life - changing choices to give their children the best life possible.

The youngest member of the first generation of abstract expressionists, Theodoros Stamos was born in Manhattan in 1922 to Greek immigrant parents and grew up on the Lower East Side.

As a first - generation immigrant whose parents fled Jerusalem before he was born, Kiswanson openly talks about the crushing sensation of belonging nowhere.

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.

As mentioned above, many of the participants in Study 1 were second - generation immigrants living in the UK, whose parents originated from more collectivistic countries.

I am a first - generation Chinese - American daughter of immigrant parents.

Both my parents are first - generation immigrants to the United States.

Kitabayashi is a first - generation immigrant; his parents came here from Japan when he was 12 years old.