Sentences with phrase «immigrant mother who»

He has a compelling back story as the son of a Panamanian immigrant mother who died when he was 6.

FRESH OFF THE BOAT (single camera) PICKED UP TO SERIES STUDIO: 20th Century Fox TV TEAM: Nahnatchka Khan (w, ep), Jake Kasdan (ep), Melvin Mar (ep), Eddie Huang (p) LOGLINE: It's the»90s, and hip - hop - loving Eddie is growing up in suburban Orlando, raised by an immigrant father who is obsessed with all things American — he owns and operates an All - American Steakhouse chain — and an immigrant mother who often is bewildered by white culture.

«We [have] heard countless stories of New Yorkers empowered through the program, including teenagers who did not previously have access to ID, immigrant mothers who can now enter school buildings and participate in their child's school with confidence, and transgender individuals who can self - designate their gender for the first - time,» said Nisha Agarwal, Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs.

They focused on 5600 immigrant mothers who used the scheme between 2003 and 2015, and their 8610 children.

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«I don't know if the reason for my anger is just my old fashioned Irish - American patriotism,» wrote the friend who sent us the link, «or the fact that I just spent a week with my father tripping and limping around with a bad leg he gave in the service of this nation, or because my mother is an immigrant and both my paternal grandparents were too, and as much as all of them loved Ireland they knew how much they owed this country and considered the precious value of their American citizenship only slightly behind that of their baptismal certificates.»

She seemed a simple hero who climbed, steadfast, over every barrier placed in her path: the language barrier, the barrier of being a single mother, the barrier of finding work as an immigrant in the midst of the depression.

Her mother arose from earthier stock — Volga - German immigrants from Russia who worked in the sugar beet fields in northern Colorado.

Without a doubt, a barbecue made by my father (he was a gaucho from the Argentinian Pampas, who excelled in his method of grilling meat) and a Spanish tortilla made by my mother (daughter of Spanish immigrants) As simple as that as good as that!!

Perhaps Nigel dislikes the cost of presidential elections; it didn't stop the son of an immigrant brought up by a single mother beating the son of an admiral who was the husband of a multi-millionaire.

Spotlights on stage were given to groups Trump has demonized: people with disabilities, undocumented immigrants, mothers of children lost to gun violence, and a «Gold Star» Muslim - American family that publicly challenged Trump to a contest of who better represents American values.

By way of biography Malliotakis described herself as the child of immigrants, with a mother from Cuba and a father from Greece, who grew up spending a great deal of time in their family business in Sunset Park.

Among those who will meet with and be blessed by the Pope during his visit on Sept. 25th are day laborers from Westchester, immigrant mothers from Yonkers and East Harlem, unaccompanied youth fleeing persecution in Central America, and refugees from the Middle East and Africa.

She's the child of immigrants, a Cuban exile mother and Greek father, who shaped her ideology.

Nicolas Pesce's debut feature The Eyes Of My Mother views its deeply disturbed heroine through the lens of hardy, immigrant - born midcentury stoicism, and Pesce chose a similarly controlled - yet - disturbing film for our marathon: The Night Of The Hunter, Charles Laughton's classic thriller starring Robert Mitchum as a killer who disguises himself as a preacher.

Weisz, 48, was raised in a «very liberal Jewish» household, her engineer father an immigrant from Hungary, her mother an Austrian Catholic who later converted.

In the case of Imelda Staunton, who plays Elliot's horribly overbearing Russian - Jewish immigrant mother, she's such a stock caricature that the bottom drops out of the movie every time she waddles into view, and, as Elliot's father, Henry Goodman is only slightly less stock.

Unlike the youngest son of Storytelling's best segment, who absorbs his parent's bourgeoisie disdain for their El Salvadoran immigrant maid, Remi sort of flinches and passively contracts at his mother's nastiness.

He gets a new neighbour, pregnant Iranian immigrant mother - of - two Parvaneh (Bahar Pars), who has no fear of his prickliness and his soon roping him in as driving instructor, handyman and babysitter.

Figure skater Mirai dedicated a quickstep to her mother, a Japanese immigrant who worked hard to support Mirai throughout her sporting career.

Furious at his world - weary parents, he finds a new mother figure in Rahil (Yordanos Shifferaw), an immigrant who's hiding her baby from authorities, fearing deportation.

Even so, her mother, like many immigrant parents who speak very little English, depends heavily upon her daughters.

The Chinese immigrant girl who photographed her mother at a sewing machine, then translated her stories from the factory floor, will become a stronger and more informed citizen because of that — and perhaps an artist or writer, too.

We look separately at the effects on the outcomes of Haitian - born incumbent students, other immigrant students, U.S. - born Haitian Creole speakers, other U.S. - born black students, other U.S. - born non-black students, limited English proficient students, those who are not English language learners, children with mothers who have less than a high school diploma, children with mothers who have a high school diploma but no other education, and children whose mothers attended college.

It's the coming - of - age tale of 11 - year - old Deming, who is adopted by a pair of white professors after his mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, doesn't return from work one day.

These four books add unique insights to this essential question, with subjects including an irrepressible immigrant mother, birth mothers and adoptive mothers, and a crusading mom who wants to liberate others from their guilt.

They can also be read as a sort of «Song for My Mother» paying homage to the artist's immigrant mother, who appears in each Mother» paying homage to the artist's immigrant mother, who appears in each mother, who appears in each video.

His father, a Portuguese immigrant who changed his name from Rodrigues, separated from Nathan's mother when the boy was an infant.

Without people like you, people like my mother would be drowned in an unfeeling system leaving them at the mercy of people who subscribe to characterizations of the... [immigrant welfare mom].»

Parents of youth with internalizing and externalizing behaviors, substance use and abuse, delinquency, police arrests, out - of - home placements, and deviant peer association; parents who are depressed, highly stressed, living in poverty or high - crime neighborhoods, Spanish - speaking immigrants, parents returning from wars (e.g., Iraq / Afghanistan) who may be experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), mothers living in shelters or supportive housing because of homelessness or domestic violence, birth parents whose children are in care because of abuse / neglect, and family with transitions such as divorce, single parenting, and step - families

She attributes her desire to help others to the influence of her Italian immigrant grandmother, who raised her after her own mother passed away when she was three.