Sentences with phrase «generation immigrant with»

She was a second generation immigrant with grandparents from Romaina, Russia and the Ukraine.

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With a fortune of about $ 34 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Li has been a fixture as the city's richest man for an entire generation of Hong Kongers and spearheaded an era defined by a handful of swashbuckling Chinese immigrants who built large empires across Asia.

The 2010 census indicated that the country was comprised of over 50 ethnic groups, with 30 per cent being first or second generation immigrants.

That generation of immigrant Jews met Christian hate with Jewish hate, Christian contempt with Jewish contempt.

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

The first Windrush generation of Caribbean immigrants to the UK in the late 40s and 50s brought their Christian faith with them.

However, as with past generations of immigrants, they will undoubtedly succumb to linguistic amnesia.

Leon said that, with God's blessing, we can see that all of us - «whether brown, black or white, male or female, first generation immigrant American or Daughter of the American Revolution, gay or straight, rich or poor» - are made in God's image.

However, there are always great challenges that come with being a first generation immigrant in any country.

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.»

He unveiled that riff about how if Trump starts deporting immigrants, he should start with him, even though the Cuomos have now been on these shores for a couple of generations.

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, the first - generation Korean American immigrant held a commanding 12 - point advantage.

And he will be meeting with other first - and second - generation elected officials from Arizona and California tonight and tomorrow in Washington, D.C. to talk about the bill and other issues pertaining to the immigrant experience.

In this sample, 92 were first - generation immigrants; the rest were second - generation American - born, with the majority (105 participants) identifying Pakistan as their heritage country.

There was a significant difference for those with darker skin as well, «Moreover, the team found that the highest risks of developing psychotic disorder were seen among first - generation immigrants who had «black» skin and those who had come from a developing country, with relative risks of 5.8 and 3.3, respectively» (Psychiatry Source, 2005).

I just gave my daughter - in - law, who is principal of an elementary school with a largely Mexican first generation immigrant population, and who has twin 11 - month - old sons, instructions on how to do a «clean room re-entry into their home.

In a class with immigrant and first - generation Asian American students, educators need to have a broad sense of the difficulties that these children might be facing.

Some European countries with large immigrant populations — such as Switzerland and Lichtenstein — are more successful than the United States in educating immigrant students, particularly in the second generation.

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.

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.

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.

She talks to pastors, takes seminars from hyper motivational - speaker gurus, interviews high school students who are children of first generation immigrants to the U.S., and mingles with Harvard Business School graduate students - all with the goal of fleshing out what would otherwise be strictly data and survey samples.

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.

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.

This poignant book resonated with me and my students, many of whom were students of color and / or first and second generation immigrants.

Do you think it is happening as rapidly with today's immigrants as it did generations ago?

As a first generation American, I wonder if it has to do with immigrants needing / wanting to stick together to keep their old traditions and cultures alive.

*** 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.

Demographic details: (for the record, this is not me) The person is a first - generation but well - adjusted immigrant, with foreign PHD scientific education, well proficient in English with excellent writing / translating skills.

In conjunction with the show, the gallery will present a panel discussion with Eileen Truax, author of Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation's Fight for Their American Dream.

This used to be standard history for the «greatest generation,» with pride that immigrants built this country and that America provided refuge.

Two generations removed from her mainland China roots, Ling - An Fang lives with a sense of lost heritage, swimming in the ocean of passing memory, portable traditions, phantasmatic recall, and quiet grief common to all immigrants.

It is being presented in November, the same month as the U.S. presidential election of 2016, and involves a collaboration with Latina seamstresses who are immigrants or first - generation Americans living in the city of Chicago.

The spine of each book is emblazoned with names of first and second generation immigrants who have impacted British culture — Christian Bale, Tom Stoppard, Sir Ben Kingsley, Henry James, Yoko Ono, Anish Kapoor, John Galliano and even, rumored «Becky with the good hair» herself, Rita Ora.

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.

Since being received as a gift from France in the late 19th century, Lady Liberty with the always - burning torch has greeted generations of immigrants as they relocated for a new life here.

Immigrants of the third generation or later are more comfortable with the local language and culture.5, 6 Intermarriage can benefit immigrants or ethnic minorities to become part of the dominate culture, though they may lose identification with tImmigrants of the third generation or later are more comfortable with the local language and culture.5, 6 Intermarriage can benefit immigrants or ethnic minorities to become part of the dominate culture, though they may lose identification with timmigrants or ethnic minorities to become part of the dominate culture, though they may lose identification with their own.7

Liz is fluent in Spanish and frequently works with first, second, and subsequent generations of Latinx immigrants.

Ehrbar contends that the flow of new immigrants, along with the Echo - Boom (people born after 1976) generation's coming of age will keep first - time homebuyer numbers essentially constant through 2020.

And yet, there is an undeniable difference between the industry's digital immigrants, practitioners born before the digital age, and its digital natives, the generation that followed and essentially grew up with the Internet.

Walter is too polite to say that Price Hill is saturated with 3rd generation hillbilly's and 1st generation Hispanic immigrants.