Sentences with phrase «generation immigrants from»

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

Dave Mann shows prints that reflect on his grandfathers who were first and second generation immigrants from Sweden and Germany and the hard work involved in setting up lives as Americans.

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

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.

Thinh Nguyen, a first - generation immigrant from Viet Nam, uses his body and his being as a canvas for endurance actions and performance to explore and expose aspects of race and racism, class and classism, gender and identity.

I am a first - generation immigrant from Panama.

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Just a few years ago, Raj Rajaratnam and Rajat Gupta were two of the most admired business luminaries from the «twice blessed» generation of South Asian immigrants.

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.

I was born in Chicago and I'm fourth - generation American, but still I will receive these questions that my friend, a recent immigrant from Poland, never will receive.

OldGoat... you obviously don't realize that ALL immigrant groups tend to look like they're from the old country until 2 or 3 generations have been born in the U.S. Right now, we are seeing in America a predominantly immigrant Muslim generation.

The «give me everything free so I can sit on my lazy butt» generation needs to learn a few things from immigrants who suffered under Marxist dictatorships.

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

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

On a clear day it is possible to see the outline of Ireland from the shores of the Clyde estuary, and Irish immigrants had been entering Scotland by the boatload for generations before the two clubs were formed, Rangers in 1873 and Celtic in 1888.

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.

1) rickets from vitamin D deficiency causing pelvic deformity 2) unskilled help during birth (most trained midwives stayed in the «Old Country» and weren't among the immigrants in our great - grandparents generation).

«Generation after generation of immigrants who came from different places and our concept was, come here, we welcome you, we don't judge you the color of your skin, or your race, or religion,» CGeneration after generation of immigrants who came from different places and our concept was, come here, we welcome you, we don't judge you the color of your skin, or your race, or religion,» Cgeneration of immigrants who came from different places and our concept was, come here, we welcome you, we don't judge you the color of your skin, or your race, or religion,» Cuomo said.

«There are few countries in the world where you can go, in one generation, from immigrant to parliamentarian.

«The new cable - stayed bridge is a monument that brings people together, straddling two boroughs that have welcomed generations of immigrants from all over the globe.»

Some described tenements that were first home to transplants from Europe, then Beat generation bohemians and Hispanic immigrants.

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.

Tea party supporters at a rally in Massapequa roared their approval yesterday as Rick Lazio bashed big government, high taxes and praised immigrants from earlier generations.

«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.»

Expect to Hear More About: Young Kim's story: A first - generation Korean American immigrant, Kim has raised nearly a half - million dollars from her network of supporters in Orange County.

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.

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

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).

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.

Behlmer, who grew up in Hollywood not far from Glen Glenn and Todd O - A, is a first - generation American, the daughter of Italian immigrants.

While first - and second - generation immigrant children are the fastest - growing segment of the U.S. population under the age of 15, their needs are often lost in the debate over services for immigrants, concludes a report from a National Academy of Sciences panel.

Aim High offers its students — primarily low - income, first - generation, immigrant youth — small classrooms and a range of curriculum, from STEM courses and environmental education to career exploration and conversations around social justice.

experience has undoubtedly shaped Rodriguez — a first - generation American immigrant from Panama who was transformed by public education — inspiring him to pursue not only an education career but also his own education as a leader.

Despite Huntington's thorough presentation of the evidence, I am not convinced that the research shows that the process of assimilation - in particular, the acquisition of language and improvements in student achievement - is proceeding any slower among second - and third - generation Mexican - Americans than it did among other immigrants from peasant and village and small - town backgrounds.

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

The achievement gap that exists between pupils from immigrant backgrounds and native - born immigrants «all but vanishes» once the second generation is born.

Where I come from, most students are Hispanic or first generation immigrants.

Among many immigrant populations from other language groups, even those who arrived generations ago, Saturdays are reserved for children to learn their home language, be it Greek, Italian, Chinese, Arabic or any other language represented in this linguistically diverse city.

Specifically, we investigate whether first, second, and third generation Asian and Hispanic immigrants in Florida perform differently on reading and mathematics tests, and whether they are differentially likely to get into serious trouble in school, to be truant from school, to graduate from high school, or to be ready for college upon high school graduation.

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.

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.

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.

It is an authentic community whose friendly long - time residents go back generations to sugar plantation workers who were immigrants largely from Japan and the Philippines.

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.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Phillip Chen is descended from generations of sojourners and immigrants who labored under the force of anti-Chinese and Chinese Exclusion Act culture in the United States — the son of a «paper son» and «war bride» challenged by processes of legalization and marginalization.

Born in Cincinnati, to second - generation Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, the young Dine fondly recalls trips to the Cincinnati Art Museum; there, works by local artists Frank Duveneck and John Henry Twachtman captivated Dine, as well as the art of trompe l'oeil masters John Peto and William Harnett.

A first - generation immigrant, Nehal Madhani graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and landed a job working in Kirkland & Ellis» bankruptcy practice.

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.

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.

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].

The Irish, Italian, German, and other immigrants from the late 1800s and early 1900s melded into our society and are now second -, third -, and fourth - generation Americans buying and selling real estate.