Sentences with phrase «immigrants experience while»

Simultaneously rooted in a particular immigrant experience while remaining completely accessible to others, it is an immigrant story, an American story, a coming of age story, a story about family journeys, and, ultimately, a story about hope, loss, and change.

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Just like before, successful immigrants must score 67 points out of a possible 100, but language fluency and age now count for more, while points for work experience have been reduced.

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.

I want to be clear about what I mean by this, because many people believe this issue relates to current skilled labour shortages; some think it applies to our need to attract more professionals such as doctors, engineers and scientists; while others focus on the glass ceiling that many existing immigrants and visible minorities experience.

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.

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

Virginia Ky of the Chinese American Planning Council compared her experience working in a restaurant to Liu's in the factory, while Brooklyn Democratic District leader Olanike Alabi, who is black, declared, «We know struggle — some as the sons and daughters of immigrants, some as descendents of slaves.»

While I realize that this is an important part of the history of the USA and the immigrant experience, somehow I felt like I lost a little interest at this point.

Alluding to the personal experiences of the African immigrant vendors who sell these masks, while looking at the persona and identity of the enigmatic character of the Master of Buli, this piece investigates the dilemmas and codes that language creates through ethnicity and sub-culture.

While the stories that surround his subjects are deeply personal and are told through the intimate possessions they hold most dear, his work addresses generational immigrant experiences of movement, trauma, and celebration.

Such factors may also intensify the physical and psychological impacts of abuse, while adding to the challenges immigrant women may experience in seeking help and leaving abusive situations.7, 15 — 18

The process of non-voluntary immigration, transitioning and acculturating to a new country may have a negative impact on the mental health of immigrants.1 — 3 Postmigration factors (eg, stress, lack of social capital, social isolation and loss of social network) as well as acculturation problems and experiences of discrimination in the host country affect the mental health of the parents and the children.4 5 Moreover, immigrant parents face challenges concerning their role and responsibilities as parents while adjusting to the host country, all of which tend to create stress in parenting.1 3 6 The mental health problems of parents have been reported to be a risk factor for children's behavioural problems and may negatively affect the parent — child attachment and their relationship.7 8 Studies have also shown that parents with mental health problems have a low perceived sense of competence in parenting and may lack the ability to employ positive parenting practises.9 10