Sentences with phrase «generation immigrants who»

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.

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).

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.

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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 second - generation Chinese and immigrants who have recently established themselves in Canada form the main group that is feeding this... Continuar a Ler >

I have to leave my immigrant church, a concern for first generation congregations who saw and still see churches as a both a strategy and physical space to connect generations divided by language, education, power, and levels of assimilation through faith.

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.

I grew up in a Lutheran church, and much of who I am can be traced back to those second - and third - generation Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and German immigrants who left...

For Sachs, Bangladeshi workers are akin to the immigrants who once worked on New York's Lower East Side, «where their migration to toil in garment factories was a step on the path to a future of urban affluence in succeeding generations.»

«We've been setting our sights on how to get to the second generation buyer, children of immigrants who over the past couple of years have been going to retailers such as Safeway, Kroger's and Whole Foods.

«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.

Coffey, who is a first generation Irish American, has been speaking out about immigrant issues.

Mario Cuomo, a son of Italian immigrants who became an eloquent spokesman for a generation of liberal Democrats during his three terms as governor of New York but couldn't quite bring himself to run for president, has died.

Now, we must fix the economic ladder that has enabled generations of New Yorkers, including the many immigrants who make Lower Manhattan their home, to climb into the middle class.

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.

In a new longitudinal study, first - generation immigrant children who took part in a community - based intervention had higher scores on math and reading tests than their first - generation immigrant peers who did not participate in the program.

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.

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.

An easy way to understand my point is to think of AA who have been in America for generations and recent African Immigrants...... there are a lot of similarities, but they are different groups as well.

The absolute reliability in terms of family, such men are the dream guys for Russian women; more so for those Russian women who are already living in the US either as second generation immigrants or as working professionals.

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.

While it is important to be reminded that the United States is still seen as the land of opportunity by a gorgeously diverse group of people who, like the generations of immigrants before them, create the dream even as they live it, «Citizen U.S.A» is less a documentary than video album.

In Haneke's formally rigorous, narratively minimalist «Happy End,» multiple generations of a French industrialist family have almost become blind to the working man, a malaise that the two - time Palme d'Or winner suggests creates disconnection not only toward the North African immigrants and other working - class people who wait on them but among each other.

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.

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.

«It's an attractive idea in a lot of ways,» says Harvard Graduate School of Education Assistant Professor Vivian Louie, whose research looks at the role of the immigrant family in the educational experiences of second - generation Chinese Americans who are consistently presented as high academic achievers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm proud to have been the first generation of a hard working, loving, blue collar, immigrant family who grew up in Woodbridge Proper.

In this case, 67 % of those who identified as immigrant respondents replied «credit» whereas only 55 % of first generation Canadians did.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Each book will have the name of a first - or second - generation immigrant to the United States who has made notable contributions to American art and culture embossed in gold on the spine.

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.

Furthermore, the largest percentage of the Millennial generation, who are the agents and consumers of the future, are immigrants or children of immigrants.

As a first - generation American, Palacios Smith now empowers people of color and immigrants who want to achieve homeownership, start a real estate career, or become a broker of their own company.

The first generation of immigrants who were easily manipulated by salespeople in the past have become sophisticated consumers.