Second -
generation immigrants show increased risk relative to their parents, and rates are highest among those of African heritage.
Not exact matches
On an anecdotal level, a disproportionate number of the people on our BNN TV
show The Disruptors are
immigrants or second -
generation immigrants who exemplify a culture of entrepreneurship and are hungry to get ahead.
My work in Chicago, which followed 6,200 kids (though not all were
immigrants) for eight years, has
showed that first -
generation kids tend to have much lower violence rates, 50 percent less, than the third
generation.
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.
The poll
showed that 55 per cent of
immigrants were more likely to pay more for brands versus 44 per cent of first
generation Canadians.
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.
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.
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.