Sentences with phrase «immigrant population at»

These mid-size areas, including Nashville, Detroit, Colorado Springs, Minneapolis, Sarasota and El Paso have shown an average 27 % rise in new immigrant population at a time when the gateway cities are losing residents.

That is, it is a benefit that doesn't affect a huge share of the immigrant population at large.

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Undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children start businesses at twice the rate of the general population, research finds.

The rate of immigrant business ownership stands at 7.2 percent for 2014, compared to 5.8 percent for the native population.

A report from the nonpartisan Fiscal Policy Institute's Immigration Research Center, for instance, looked at data from the Survey of Business Owners and the American Community Survey and determined that though immigrants make up 13 percent of the U.S. population in general, they make up 18 percent of small business owners, and that immigrant - owned businesses account for 14 percent of private sector employment.

Immigrants older than 25 are more likely to have college degrees or graduate / professional degrees than the rest of the population at large.

Chang eventually emigrated to the United States on a student visa and became a minister, co-founding a ministry for Korean immigrants at Wiltshire United Method Church in Los Angeles, home to the nation's largest Korean - American population.

Look at the anger in the Southwest, where Spanish - speaking immigrants, legal and illegal, threaten to overwhelm the Anglo population (who, as I recall, similarly overwhelmed the Native Americans.)

The total U.S. Catholic population has remained at about 24 %, as immigrants have filled the pews the ex-Catholics have left behind.

The result is that the unauthorized immigrant population is still in the shadows after popular opposition doomed both recent attempts at amnesty.

At the outset of the century its population was descended chiefly from immigrants from Great Britain and North Ireland, with substantial minorities from the Protestant portions of Germany and the Netherlands and slight contingents of Huguenots and Swedes.

Due to the large immigrant population, some ethnic grocery stores sell 2 - liter bottles of kvass, but it is not the same as the stuff sold at street stands that I remember (that tasted more like something between beer and hard cider, and the bottled stuff tastes like... sweet, bready soda).

Given Turkey's predominantly Muslim population and its geographic location, the EU does not want to risk an influx of Muslim immigrants, simply put Turkey's accession would open a backdoor to Europe for immigrants from Arabic and African countries, at a time when immigration is an extremely hot issue in European countries and several countries have recently implemented anti-immigration laws that would seem extreme and unjustified a decade ago.

«The borough's population has been growing at an annual rate of one percent since 2010, the highest of any county in the state, thanks to an influx of immigrants.

At one time home mostly to Italian and Jewish immigrants, the neighborhood now boasts a large West Indian population.

The video features a mix of celebrities and Cuomo, and touts the Liberty Defense Project which is aimed at providing legal assistance to the state's immigrant population.

Thus, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions took direct aim at «sanctuary cities» this past Mon., Mar. 27th, just as dozens of representatives from such municipalities gathered in New York City to discuss methods to protect immigrant populations.

Since 2010, more than 130,000 university graduates have left Greece to look for work, making up approximately 75 % of the total immigrant population, a 2015 study from researchers at the University of Macedonia reports.

Her own research interest is immigration and domestic violence; Kupchik's project, at a high school with a large population of Mexican immigrants, offered her an opportunity «to go into the high school and look at a population I had not really focused on before,» she says.

«With one - quarter of older Mexican - American immigrants and 30 percent of Mexican - Americans born in the United States reporting substantial physical limitations, there is a clear need for providing all Mexican - American older adults with appropriate health care, particularly in light of the rapid growth of this population» says co-author Amani Nuru - Jeter, Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.

«Given that Canada is currently experiencing a rapid growth in the population of foreign - born citizens — one of the highest rates of any Western nation — the mental health status of immigrants and refugees should be a national priority,» writes Dr. Kelly Anderson, an assistant professor at Western University, London, Ontario, and a fellow at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), with coauthors.

Contrary to widespread view that the recession led to a substantial backlash against immigration, Professor Timothy Hatton, at the University of Exeter, found that the two most influential variables shifting public opinion on immigration are actually the share of immigrants in the population and the share of social benefits.

New evidence establishes for the first time that Cahokia, a sprawling, pre-Columbian city situated at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, hosted a sizable population of immigrants.

The bed bug population in U.S. homes has skyrocketed in the last 10 years, and it's possible — although still not demonstrated — that immigrants or others who already have T. cruzi could infect bed bugs in their home who could then pass it to other people in the household, says Michael Levy, assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and a co-author of the study.

A new study finds that, even in towns along major drug trafficking routes, immigrants use illicit drugs at lower rates than the general U.S. population.

They selected subpopulations in India who have eaten a largely plant based diet for millennia and looked at how the health of immigrants from this population did when they moved to western countries and started to eat the local decidedly non-plant based diet.

Ukraine's population downsized from 52 million in 1991 to 42 million at present Russia hosts the highest number of immigrants from Ukraine — ...

Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead - end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)-- a Jew, an African, and an Arab — give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point.

Compare the immigrant population of California today and at the start of the Gold Rush in the 1850s.

At the same time, new populations exist in cities, in urban school systems — primarily African American and Latino students, and large numbers of immigrants.

The Newcomer Academy is a new summer program the Albany City School District aimed at helping its growing population of immigrant and refugee students adjust to a new language, school and culture.

Supporters also claim that many countries ranking at the top also have large immigrant and low - income student populations.

The SIFE population presents a range of special challenges to U.S. education systems, especially at the high school level where the overall dropout rate of immigrant teens is very high (Morse, 2005; Osterling, 2001).

At the time, the West End of Boston had a large population of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, and so the books displayed were primarily in Yiddish and Hebrew.

At any given time, about 30,000 illegal immigrants are spread out over 200 centers, the largest population detained anywhere in the world.

So, what Baker et al. are suggesting is that predation by cats may be extensive enough to deplete populations of certain bird species at their study site, such that at least some of the birds observed there were immigrants from nearby habitat.

But with a heavy population of German immigrants at the time in New York City, he became a major hit.

Staff also offer an intriguing look at the lives of the bison themselves, before enjoying a Ukrainian - Canadian feast, in honour of the Ukrainian immigrants who helped preserve the bison population of Canada a century ago.

Meg Shiffler presented several past and future projects that she organized at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery that highlighted local communities or sociopolitical circumstances such as the yearlong engagement (exhibitions and public programs) around the fact that San Francisco is a «Sanctuary City» and is defiantly refusing to comply with the Trump administration's request for personal documents related to its immigrant populations.

At a time when immigrants are vilified by nationalist trends in increasingly divided, developed nations, Shonibare's The British Library asks us to consider the global migration of refugees and what would be the state of society without the contributions of immigrant populations.

As discussed earlier, Hurricane Katrina demonstrated that communities of color, poor communities, and certain other vulnerable populations (like new immigrant communities) are at a higher risk to the adverse effects of extreme weather events.263, 264,239 These vulnerable populations could benefit from urban planning policies that ensure that new buildings, including homes, are constructed to resist extreme weather events.303

At least one study, at the elementary school level in Ontario, suggests that greater levels of immigrant populations usually resulted in lower levels of behavioural problems like bullying or being bullieAt least one study, at the elementary school level in Ontario, suggests that greater levels of immigrant populations usually resulted in lower levels of behavioural problems like bullying or being bullieat the elementary school level in Ontario, suggests that greater levels of immigrant populations usually resulted in lower levels of behavioural problems like bullying or being bullied.

For the last three years, she has been living in Georgia and helping start the Immigration Services Program at Lutheran Services of Georgia a non-profit that serves refugees and other vulnerable, immigrant populations.

Two immigrant populations projects will be housed at the National Immigrant Justice Center in Goshen, IN and the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota in St. Paul, MN; a pro se and other legal representation systems project will be housed at the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services in Nashville, TN; and a health care / medical - legal partnership project will be housed at the Prairie State Legal Services, Inc. in Rockimmigrant populations projects will be housed at the National Immigrant Justice Center in Goshen, IN and the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota in St. Paul, MN; a pro se and other legal representation systems project will be housed at the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services in Nashville, TN; and a health care / medical - legal partnership project will be housed at the Prairie State Legal Services, Inc. in RockImmigrant Justice Center in Goshen, IN and the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota in St. Paul, MN; a pro se and other legal representation systems project will be housed at the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services in Nashville, TN; and a health care / medical - legal partnership project will be housed at the Prairie State Legal Services, Inc. in RockImmigrant Law Center of Minnesota in St. Paul, MN; a pro se and other legal representation systems project will be housed at the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services in Nashville, TN; and a health care / medical - legal partnership project will be housed at the Prairie State Legal Services, Inc. in Rockford, IL.

Carl Hernandez talks about the immigration clinic at Brigham Young University, which is managed mainly by students and meets a great need in the Utah community which has a large immigrant population.

Serving the Underserved: BYU's Immigration Clinic Carl Hernandez talks about the immigration clinic at Brigham Young University, which is managed mainly by students and meets a great need in the Utah community which has a large immigrant population.

At a time when other urban disadvantaged populations, with the help of early childhood intervention services, are trying to strengthen families and promote social cohesion, Chinese immigrant families that practice reverse - migration separation are heading the opposite direction.

The relationship between depressive symptoms and step count has only been assessed in specific populations with small sample sizes, such as low - socioeconomic status Latino immigrants, 16 elderly Japanese people17 or patients with chronic conditions such as heart failure18 19 or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.20 21 Studies yield contradictory results, with some observing no association between depressive symptoms and daily step count, 19 21 while others report a negative correlation.16 — 18 20 In one cross-sectional sample of healthy older adults, an inverse association between depressive symptoms (using the Goldberg Depression Scale - 15) and accelerometer measured daily step count disappeared after controlling for general health and disability.22 While a systematic review suggests reduced levels of objectively measured PA in patients with depression, 23 it is not known whether this association is present in those at high risk of CVD and taken into account important confounding such as gender and age.

Respondents older than 75 years leave the panel but, as immigrants and young people are added to the sample, each wave also mirrors the Swedish population at the time and can, thus, be used as cross-sections.

In a birth cohort study, risk of psychosis in adulthood was raised by a factor of 4 if the mother, during pregnancy, reported that a baby was unwanted.49 Separation from parents in early life has been found to predict an increased risk of psychosis in genetically vulnerable children, 50,51 and the association between immigrant status and severe mental illness may be at least partially explained by the high rates of early separation in migrant populations.52 Adolescents at high genetic risk of psychosis have also been found to be at increased risk of psychosis in later life if they report adverse relationships with their parents.53