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In addition, understanding these immigrant experiences from a strength - based perspectives and what coping strategies these families used to deal with life challenges helps practitioners recognize what the clients» service needs are and how to work more successfully with these families at reunification.

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We are highly experienced in working with Human Resources personnel, in - house client counsel and foreign individuals from across a wide spectrum of industries to efficiently obtain U.S. immigrant and non-immigrant visas.

I know nothing of Julia Young's domestic arrangements, but my experience of large U.S. cities is that the educated professional classes tend to live so far from the areas inhabited by recent immigrants that they might as well be in another continent.

In the late 1970s my native Pike County, IL experienced an influx of Asian immigrants as several churches sponsored families from Laos out of refugee camps in Thailand, where they had fled from the economic collapse and mass killings that swept Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia after Richard Nixon withdrew troops from the region.

As CT reported in 2017, immigrant pastors and churches channel funds back to ministries in their home countries, such as one Los Angeles pastor from El Salvador, whose father experienced kidnapping and death threats while leading a church back home.

In these pages I argued that the real problem of «aliens» among us is represented not by immigrants but by the urban underclass and the intellectual overclass, both of whom are profoundly alienated from the rights and responsibilities of the American experience (see «The Aliens Among Us,» The Public Square, August / September 1993).

During the Mandate period the Arabs in the area of Zionist settlement experienced a phenomenal population rise (of births over deaths), and Mandatory Palestine attracted some 100,000 Arab immigrants from adjacent lands.

Talk about your own family's immigrant experience («Great - Grandma came from Italy and had to work very hard» or some such) or talk about the ways our world has been shaped by immigrants («What would life be like today without pizza?»).

[continued from previous post] And the widespread working class experience of declining wages due to competition from immigrants was one of the motivations that led many to vote for Leave, which was what the question asked for, rather than for arguments as to whether Leave or Remain was correct overall.

«Reared in upstate Johnstown, the son of working - class immigrants, he holds an MBA from Harvard and has experience at several top financial firms.

Every elected Labour official has the same experience: hard - working constituents regale us with tales of how they receive no help from the state, whereas the plights of others, usually described as «immigrants» and almost always «unemployed» and «benefit claimants» receive the most attention.

Ulrich blasted Trump's first and second executive orders barring entry to people from Muslim - majority countries, comparing it to the historic discrimination Catholic and Jewish immigrants once experienced.

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.

A few researchers are turning their attention to the sunshine vitamin as a culprit, prompted by the experience of immigrants that have moved from their equatorial country to two northern latitude locations

A new study of national survey information gathered on more than 12,000 Hispanic children from immigrant and U.S. - native families found that although they experience more poverty, those from immigrant families reported fewer exposures to such adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) as parental divorce and scenes of violence.

A reflection of his own past and experiences, many of Mr. Mengestu's characters are immigrants or the children of immigrants, often from Africa, as he is; and so an underlying theme is what it means to be American.

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Sin Nombre (2009) The experience of illegal immigrants riding trains from Honduras through Mexico to the American border is portrayed with punishing realism in this drama by American director Cary Fukunaga.

And the model minority stereotype entirely disregards the experiences of recent immigrants who fail to graduate from high school as they falter in an unfamiliar country.

And the Streets Are Paved With Gold 09/28/2000 [Language Arts, American History Grades 6 - 8 Submitted by Brenda Dyck] Using the links provided, students explore the immigrant experience at Ellis Island, New York, at the turn of the century, and answer questions that challenge them to use thinking skills from various levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

The daughter of immigrants from Japan, Susie Ikeda arrived at HGSE with more than 20 years of experience in information technology management within the biotech and pharmaceutical industry.

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.

Carola Suárez - Orozco, Irina Todorova, and Josephine Louie, researchers from the Harvard Immigration Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, also found that 35 % of immigrant children experienced separation from their fathers for more than five years.

The piece, «An Immigrant Student's Story: I Was a Dictionary Girl,» shared her personal experience and made suggestions for how English language learner educators can work with immigrants from countries for which they do not have language partners.

With that assistance, my students composed essays where their lives leapt from the page: the multiyear flight from Iraq; the transformation from a shy immigrant to confident school changemaker and journalist; the magical experience of seeing snow for the first time.

And the Streets Are Paved With Gold Submitted by Brenda Dyck Using the links provided, students explore the immigrant experience at Ellis Island, New York, at the turn of the century, and answer questions that challenge them to use thinking skills from various levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

«I come from a rural background and an immigrant family, and I know the barriers that exist when pursuing higher education and work experiences,» she says.

It also explored teachers» perception and understanding of the sociocultural and past educational experiences of immigrant students from Ghana.

Also, as the first openly gay person of color in Congress and someone from a family who experienced the ugly face of systemic racism when his grandparents and parents were removed from their respective homes and sent to Japanese American Internment camps during World War II, Takano has a consistently progressive social justice ethic that is evident in his strong voting record in support of immigrants, low - income families, affordable housing, veterans, and workers.

Facing History and Ourselves alumna Clarinda Ofori - Annor gave an account of her experiences as an immigrant from Ghana and finding her voice in her Facing History class at the 2014 Chicago Benefit Dinner.

As immigrants, my parents came to this country in search of opportunity, and taught me from their experience the power that education has to open doors.

So districts must be prepared to serve every child — including children with disabilities, children from immigrant families and dual - language learners, children who are experiencing homelessness, and children who've experienced trauma.

Many English Learners represent the newest members of our society (including recently arrived immigrants and children of immigrants) who bring a rich diversity of cultural backgrounds and come from families with rich social and linguistic experiences.

The Impact of Discrimination on the Early Schooling Experience of Children from Immigrant Families.

Jhumpa Lahiri discusses the cultural conflicts of growing up in America as the child of immigrants and how the experience of writing her first novel differed from writing the short stories in the Pulitzer prize - winning Interpreter of Maladies.

In recent years, we've seen an uptick in stellar novels of the immigrant experience — from Behold the Dreamers to Americanah, from The Book of Unknown Americans to The Buddha in the Attic — and 2017 continues that trend, with an even greater emphasis on refugees» tales.

«Over the past ten years, my work has explored memory from my own experience as an immigrant.

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Her visual narratives in artwork created for a large part of a Los Angeles subway station draw from «hyper - specific cultural images that relate to the immigrant experience in LA and the US, indigenous experience, and the experience of slaves.»

«A Stranger in Your Home» — Exhibit that explores the immigrant experience in America, personal and collective narratives, and legacy in Amir's first solo show with Shulamit Nazarian gallery in Los Angeles, on view from September through November 2017

In his work, Francisco Donoso reflects on the tension caused by overlapping identities, histories and ideologies as they relate to his own experience as an immigrant from Ecuador who grew up in Miami, Florida.

«The idea of Migrant arises from the convergence of several factors linked to personal experience as an immigrant and as a woman, by the societies I've met and the culture in which I grew up.»

Raised from immigrant parents of Guatemala, he grew up with a bi-cultural experience, which has informed the subject matter in his practice.

«From the Margins» juxtaposes his paintings with those of a contemporary, painter Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984), who was from a Russian Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn and experienced a similar professional receptFrom the Margins» juxtaposes his paintings with those of a contemporary, painter Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984), who was from a Russian Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn and experienced a similar professional receptfrom a Russian Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn and experienced a similar professional reception.

As a child of immigrant parents from both Cuba and Puerto Rico, Brache describes her experience as a type of «cultural amnesia.»

An immigrant and naturalised citizen myself, I had always perceived the U.S. differently, mostly from the big screen Hollywood experience and the adventures of «Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man».

It's about her experience of being African, from Kenya, and how The United States» system of race consciousness and profiling compounds the immigrant experience by using such superficial phenotypes like hair, skin color, and dress as a basis to judge.

[3] First and Third (1987) was created from interviews with immigrants in America, who discussed the promises and realities of their experiences of the «American dream.»

In her work, Hedieh explores the notion of duality to comprehend her identity as an Iranian - American immigrant and the complexities that emanate from such polarized cultural experiences.

Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Counterparts, A suite of new paintings by 2017 MacArthur fellow Njideka Akunyili Crosby drawing from her experience as a Nigerian immigrant.