Sentences with phrase «immigrant families across»

The year is 1845 and Stephen Meek is a for - hire guide leading a handful of immigrant families across the Oregon Trail in search of the American dream.

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At 5 a.m., Make the Road New York, immigrant youth and families from New York and Long Island depart for Washington, DC, to joint thousands from across the country in calling for the passage of» «a clean Dream Act.»

New York Governor Cuomo is offering his top attorneys to help defend detainees and their families affected by President Trump's executive order banning immigrants, in the midst of second day of protests across the nation, including at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport.

«Across New York, fraudulent service providers are making millions of dollars by ripping off immigrant communities for what they think are rushed or necessary applications for life - altering legal documents: green cards, entrance visas for family members, or the passports to leave and enter the country,» read the release.

So you're not going to waste your time looking halfway across the world — instead, you will have quick and easy access to all exotic singles, whether they are first generation immigrants or have had family here for many generations.

At a community action group comprised of Mexican immigrants, one woman explains of the terrible ordeal she and her daughters went through to get across the border, and her utter determination to make this new life for herself and her family speaks volumes about the significance of multi-cultural communities and building homes away from home.

I think this commitment is represented well by HGSE faculty members, including some hired during my deanship, for example: Nancy Hill with her work on parenting and family socialization practices across ethnic, socio - economic, and neighborhood contexts; Meira Levinson with her work on civic and multicultural education; Natasha Warikoo with her work on race, immigration, inequality, and culture as they relate to education; and Hiro Yoshikawa with his work on the development of young children in immigrant families.

Dr. Gadsden's research and scholarly interests focus on children and families across the life - course, from early childhood through the aging process, particularly children and families at the greatest risk for academic and social vulnerability by virtue of race, gender, ethnicity, poverty, and immigrant status.

A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent - and about the road trip they take across America that binds them back together.

Immigrants brought their dogs across the ocean along with their families and prized possessions.

Target Gallery, contemporary exhibition space of the Torpedo Factory Art Center, presents this group exhibition that explores the lasting effects migration has on cultural identity from the perspective of immigrants and immigrant families from across the global diaspora.

To count as family, the members do not even need to live under the same roof (there are commuter marriages and «living apart together» arrangements, there are divorced families that extend across households, and immigrant families that reach across nations).

Head Start programs serve diverse children and families including American Indian and Alaska Native communities, migrant and seasonal workers, immigrants, refugees, and more; efforts to understand these programs should be as inclusive as possible of the breadth of communities and families served across the United States.