Sentences with phrase «immigrant background as»

Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos touts his financial experience and his Greek immigrant background as assets in the race.

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«We are a nation of immigrants whose diverse backgrounds, ideas and points of view have helped us build and invent as a nation for over 240 years.»

In contrast, immigrants who come from diverse backgrounds with a range of skills - such as the 800,000 dreamers - tend to produce greater economic benefits.

Yet we in the West should strive for humane borders in which travelers and immigrants of all backgrounds are treated with respect by state authorities, and valued as human beings with great potential, rather than dismissed as faceless hordes — or, in Hitchens's words, «countless persons from who - knows - where.»

The Adolescent Development Lab at UCLA exists to generate knowledge about the development about youth from diverse ethnic and immigrant backgrounds, and to understand the interaction between social and biological development as it relates to behavior.

Moreover, Cuomo argued that his father, the former three - term Governor Mario Cuomo, related to Dominicans because of his own background as the son of Italian immigrants who didn't speak English.

Cites background as «son of immigrants.»

Spurred by Trump's announcement in September that he planned to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, members of the chamber wrote a letter to the Florida congressional delegation urging them to «quickly find a legislative solution before the program expires»... «Without a legislative solution, 800,000 DACA recipients will lose their ability to work and legally study, and it will leave many Florida employers, workers and students without certainty,» the chamber's CEO Mark Wilson wrote in the letter... «The Florida Chamber supports an earned pathway to citizenship for immigrants that pass criminal background checks as well as supports policies that reduce illegal immigration and improve on border security.»

As the daughter of Ugandan - Asian immigrants who ran newsagents in west London, the 44 - year - old does not have the typical Tory background.

As the old man Slimane (Habib Boufares), divorced and living in a dump of hotel owned by his new lover, works his way through the bureaucracy with the help of the doting daughter of his long - time girlfriend (she treats him like and adoptive grandfather), we see an entire world is seen in the background, the stories of the children and grandchildren of Arab immigrants making a life in this French port town and finding their identity in the mix of cultures.

As suggested by the Norse apocalyptic event mentioned in the title, the trailer finds Thor's homeland of Asgard leveled and his beloved hammer Mjölnir destroyed by new villain Hela, devilishly played by Cate Blanchett, all while Led Zeppelin's «Immigrant Song» rages in the background.

As educators and experts assess the quality of student mental - health services in light of the deadly shootings last month at Virginia Tech, the gunman's immigrant background is focusing attention on what those who work with immigrants say is a lack of services tailored to such groups.

It is noted not only that he had the same birthday as Lincoln (Lincoln was a particular favorite of the immigrant press — he was because of his humble background seen by the immigrants as a welcoming figure who valued their contribution to America), but also that in his will «Kosciusko requested that the large tracts of land he received for his service in the Revolutionary War be used to help end slavery.»

It cited the US as an example where 21 per cent of all students have an immigrant background, while those schools in disadvantaged areas have 40 per cent of its student population from immigrant backgrounds.

According to the new OECD report, «Starting Strong 2017: Key OECD indicators on early childhood education and care,» some countries are managing this process well and as a result see a «very modest impact of the social and immigrant background of children on their learning and social outcomes.»

The volume examines the relationship between student performance and socio - economic status, and describes how other individual student characteristics, such as immigrant background and family structure, and school characteristics, such as school location, are associated with socio - economic status and performance.

A. Demonstrates sensitivity and responsiveness to the personal ideas, learning needs, interests, and feelings of students with disabilities and / or from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (e.g., Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, as well as other recent immigrant groups).

In addition, it highlights the relative strengths and weaknesses of each school system and examines how they are related to individual student characteristics, such as gender, immigrant background and socio - economic status.

In the aftermath of the election, students and educators across the country are mobilizing to transform their schools into places of sanctuary to protect students of immigrant backgrounds from the violence perpetrated by the state, as well as interpersonal violence.

In doing so, his work possesses a hybridity that reflects his own background as an Iranian - American immigrant straddling cultures.

Using his own background that has been defined by several cultures simultaneously, Attia explores the impact of Western cultural and political capitalism on the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as how this residual strain of struggle and resistance to colonization impacts the mind of any immigrant as a territory.

As an emerging curator, Xavier questions, how do artists react through art to their background whether being an immigrant, a person of color, queer, woman... part of a marginalized group of people?

In doing so, his paintings possess a hybridity that reflects his own background as an Iranian - American immigrant straddling cultures.

But when it comes to young men, we tend to label groups of them — particularly those from immigrant backgrounds, often those deeply affected by poverty and lack of opportunity — as something possibly a bit more sinister.

PopUpJustice is way on its way to bring change to the legal tech field and so I admire her vision, her drive, and her courage to bring her perspective as someone with an immigrant family background just like mine.

His empaneled jury had one black member, an immigrant from Africa whom Howe says wouldn't have the same cultural background and sensitivities as a black person raised in Nova Scotia.

Especially young males with a Turkish and Moroccan background seem to hold on to the values of the cultures they come from, and particularly Turkish immigrants seem keen on keeping the cohesion of their ethnic group intact by opposing interethnic dating, and by favoring parental influence on mate choice as a way to achieve this goal.

Fernandes says his experience as an immigrant who went through the process of buying and selling companies since coming to Canada, combined with his marketing and accounting background, led him to create a boutique business brokerage.