Sentences with phrase «immigrant experience in»

Bibiana Suárez has been making paintings and drawings that address the psychological, political, and social conditions inherent to the immigrant experience in the United States since 1980.

Our curatorial question is framed within the Native American and immigrant experience in order to show the connections between these perceived polar opposites.

The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. proudly presents Crossover: East and West, a new group exhibition opening Feb. 2 featuring ceramic, installation, painting, and video art that question and inform the Asian immigrant experience in America through the works of four accomplished Korean American artists: Victoria Jang, Christina Ko, Jang Soon Im, and Eun Kyung Suh.

«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

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.»

Crossover: East and West is a new group exhibition opening Feb. 2 featuring ceramic, installation, painting, and video art that question and inform the Asian immigrant experience in America through the works of four accomplished Korean American artists: Victoria Jang, Christina Ko, Jang Soon Im, and Eun Kyung Suh.

Jorge Argueta is a celebrated Salvadoran poet and writer whose bilingual children's books capture the stories and landscape of his beloved homeland as well as the immigrant experience in the U.S.. His poetry for children and adults has appeared in numerous anthologies and textbooks.

Ten - year - old Johann recalls the hardships and triumphs of the immigrant experience in 1902, as his German family emigrates in search of the «paradise» said to lie in America.

In 2009 she said that her next major literary project will focus on the Nigerian immigrant experience in the United States.

Hosseini's stunning debut novel starts as an eloquent Afghan version of the American immigrant experience in the late 20th century, but betrayal and redemption come to the forefront when the narrator, a writer, returns to his ravaged homeland to rescue the son of his childhood friend after the boy's parents are shot during the Taliban takeover in the mid»90s.

The House of Broken Angels should be read by anyone who wants to understand the ambiguity of the immigrant experience in general and the Mexican - American experience in particular (Dottie B).

It is a lively meditation on female capabilities and happiness, on the mysteries of artistic inspiration (and the absurdities of artistic life), and, perhaps most movingly, on the pain and wonder of the immigrant experience in New York City.

Alternating chapters give voice to the women and their daughters, who, fitting into a larger picture, reveal one aspect of the immigrant experience in America.

The film is also about more than Bosnia: it's about the immigrant experience in general; it's about tolerance; it's about making a difference; it's about learning to make the best of what one has.

As a movie, «Code Unknown» has held up remarkably well, capturing the incongruity of the immigrant experience in ways that still matter today.

Regardless of what occurs in Washington, the immigrant experience in our state is far more positive because of programs like this.

And, on 2016's Home of the Strange, the band gets both personal and socially - conscious, exploring the immigrant experience in modern American.

Not exact matches

In a post on LinkedIn, CEO Satya Nadella wrote: «As an immigrant and as a CEO, I've both experienced and seen the positive impact that immigration has on our company, for the country, and for the world.»

As an Indian - born immigrant and tech entrepreneur myself, I have first - hand experience of some modes of thinking that, frankly, shocked me and rocked my belief in the Valley's story of its own openness.

Canada has yet to experience such a backlash, but the recent furor over temporary foreign workers and simmering resentment in some quarters against immigrants could sour the mood towards foreign students.

Using the motivation that I had developed as an immigrant, I was willing to sacrifice in the short term, to gain experience and opportunity to propel me into my career.

«I'm an undocumented immigrant, so I suffer in my own experience with my family,» said Quintero at a Lansing, Michigan, rally.

For those people in work situations who aren't having such a welcoming experience, Taylor says to get yourself a support network, whether you are the only woman on your team or an immigrant or a minority, etc..

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.

While all that marketing is helping to gain political support for more H - 1B visas, it doesn't account for the many different lived experiences of immigrants in the US today.

This includes designing policy programs to provide detailed information about the changing Chinese economy, to develop platforms for sharing experiences and expertise among investing firms, and to mobilize the knowledge bases of transnational immigrant communities in Canada.

Submitting himself almost as a pilgrim to the common experience of immigrants to Israel, he succeeded in mastering the Hebrew culture, and more gradually in cultivating a deep familiarity with Israeli academic and intellectual life.

As late as the 1970s, Italian immigrant communities of Pentecostals were still saying to their American counterparts «you do not know the Catholic Church» in reference to their experiences in Italy.

It is this kind of experience, suffered in milder form by many immigrant groups, that leads Harold Cruse, perhaps the most thoughtful of contemporary black intellectuals, to write:

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.

«My research and professional experience shows that immigrants do not contribute to increases in crime.

Each band member is either an immigrant or the child of immigrants, and the record serves as an exploration and examination of the immigration experience in 2016 America.

The idea for the show occurred when original producer Norman Lear was first approached by a young associate who asked if he'd be interested in a Latino reinvigoration of the show with the immigrant American experience.

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 regioIn 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 regioin 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.

GRG's Ciao Mambo offers a more elegant dining experience with «immigrant - style Italian cuisine» that is prepared in full view of customers.

Many of the company's nearly 500 employees share Ching Sun's immigrant experience, having found their first job in the United States at Wonton Food.

But their distinctive experience among the groups who came to the US in this period speaks to today's debates about immigration — and especially to the ways immigrants integrate into new societies.

As we can see, the hypothesis that UKIP vote is driven by experience of change in the local area can be rejected — in fact Pearson correlations between UKIP vote and increases in the share of each immigrant group are negative.

I grew up as the daughter of Muslim immigrants in a very white part of Lanarkshire in Scotland and my family experienced the very good, the bad and the ugly so I really don't need a lecture thankseverso.

While participating in her first political campaign, Alcántara said she has been surprised to experience the stigma that still exists toward immigrants.

The Fiscal Policy Institute looks at the experience of five states and the District of Columbia, and finds that, based on these examples, between 25 percent and 50 percent of unauthorized immigrants over the age of 16 obtain a license in the first three years.

Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, a native of Puerto Rico, said New York City's unemployment is lower in New York than many other cities because «we are the beneficiaries of the immigrant experience.»

«Experience has taught me community engagement will fail without involving immigrants, youth, and non-English speakers,» he wrote in an email.

This story in the Times is the latest in a series of articles in the Times on the Mexican immigrant experience.

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

In addition to his affordable housing plan, De Blasio said he would continue Bloomberg's efforts to improve the immigrant experience to make the city attractive to technology employees.

Counties which experienced the largest rises in immigrants experienced neither larger nor smaller rises in native - born unemployment.