Sentences with phrase «generation immigrants»

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

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

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

The comparison group included 375 first - generation immigrant children of similar racial / ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic status who attended the same schools before the intervention was implemented.

First - and second - generation immigrant founders are even more common among the largest corporations: 48 percent for the top 60 companies and 57 percent for the top 35.

The principal window on our myths is supposed to be the stories of successful first - and second - generation immigrants drawn from 200 lengthy interviews.

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

Among first generation immigrants, the earlier the arrival, the better the students tend to perform.

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.

To date, it remains unclear whether the expectations of female clients are better met in birth centers than in hospital or home births and if the offered birth care connects to the needs of different social groups, such as non-Dutch women, including first, second and third generation immigrants [6, 8, 17].

I myself am a bi-lingual (Spanish and English speaking) Hispanic woman of second generation immigrants from Mexico.

Through photographs and a collection of ephemera, Joe's Junk Yard tells the story of an empire built on the steel of crashed El Caminos and used car parts, the effects of a changing economy and shifts in societal values, and the decades long struggle of a first generation immigrant family to maintain the American Dream.

Purchasing in an unfamiliar market can be daunting, whether investing internationally, seeking vacation property, or a first generation immigrant living in the U.S.

The Labour MP David Lammy has strongly attacked the government over the treatment of Windrush generation immigrants.

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.

Video number 4 from the Jet Set Vision Trip in Taiwan all goes down during a cab ride through Taipei as Ray Chang and I talk about how second generation immigrant churches in America can be involved in God's global mission.

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.

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

The Jewish advantage, however, is probably to be explained by the fact that about half the Jews living in America are still first - generation immigrants largely from Eastern Europe with the high Eastern European birth rate.

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

Look at all first generation immigrants come to America and accumulate huge wealth because they saved like crazy and kept on buying property through their lives.

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.

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

As second - generation immigrants grow up in the United States and attend American schools, they turn to American brands to serve their grocery and other retail needs.

The 25th Council District, which includes Corona, East Elmhurst, Elmhurst, Jackson Heights and part of Rego Park, has a population that is 53 percent first − generation immigrants.

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.

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.

This report examines the educational experiences and outcomes of first and second - generation immigrant youth ages 16 to 26 across California's educational institutions, encompassing secondary schools, adult education, and postsecondary education.

His research interests center on how race, racism, and assimilative pressures affect the experiences and outcomes of students of color and early generation immigrant students in US K — 12 contexts.

«So you're obviously going to see a different crowd, maybe not so much of the second - generation immigrant crowd.

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.

New American scientists: First generation immigrant status and college STEM aspirations, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 22, 1 - 21.

Some may have arrived in the United States in the past month, and others may be second - or third - generation immigrants who didn't learn English at home.

My problem with the first article - complaining at «second and third generation immigrants» being counted as British rather than immigrants in immigration statistics - was that it was an obvious nonsense, which the Mail acknowledges.

In the study, 292 first - generation immigrant children who attended eight high - poverty, urban elementary schools in Boston took part in the intervention, called City Connects, in the early 2000s.

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.

In her first exhibition in the United States, Brazilian artist Marilá Dardot will premiere a new large - scale installation work featuring flags created by first generation immigrants living the South Bay.

The Labour MP strongly attacked the government over the treatment of Windrush generation immigrants.

ARISE is comprised of over 90 % Latinx students, most of whom are first or second generation immigrants from Mexico and Central America.

Also, Ray and I took a taxi ride through Taipei, Taiwan and discussed how second generation immigrant churches in America can be involved in God's global mission.

What is quite revealing is that a couple of the 1st generation immigrants had the most critical views on recent immigration.

Our first - generation immigrant parents - from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka - never had to worry about finding the right someone, growing up in countries with mostly homogenous populations.

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

Both first - and second - generation immigrants in British Columbia and Ontario outperformed their non-immigrant counterparts in science literacy, in the 2015 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Programme for International Student Assessment.

Most ELLs are first generation immigrants who have left their country looking for other avenues for a better life.

Patel is a former lawyer and first - generation immigrant and rarely participates in public protests, he wrote.

First - generation immigrants or their children had founder roles in more than 40 % of the Fortune 500, including such marquee companies as AT&T (No. 11), Procter & Gamble (No. 31), Goldman Sachs (No. 74), Pfizer (No. 51), eBay (No. 180), Google (No. 46), Intel (No. 53), Kraft (No. 156), Cigna (No. 97), and Kohl's (No. 151).

Over two - thirds of the millennial population in Toronto and Vancouver are first or second - generation immigrants, and 39 % are Asian.