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December 9, 2015 • Since the Sept. 11 attacks, FBI hate crime data and census trends show that states with the strongest backlash against Muslims saw decreased rates of assimilation among Muslim immigrants in America.

The Jade Pendant: This docudrama tells the story of the lynching of 18 Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles in 1871.

Under Ian Holm's nuanced reading of the newspaper accounts, Lesy's still photographs of wide - eyed Norwegian and German immigrants in their Sunday best and the chilling momento mori of their deceased children

The best of the Cannes films engaging with those topics is Michael Haneke's Happy End, a chilling tale of a wealthy family whose blindness to their privilege — and to the immigrants in their hometown of Calais, where one of Europe's biggest migrant crises has been going on for years — has turned them into monsters.

What opportunities are available to immigrants in your community?

LAKE LOS ANGELES In a festival heavy with movies set in or inspired by Los Angeles and Southern California, «Littlerock» director Mike Ott is represented by the final installment in his acclaimed «Antelope Valley trilogy» — a drama about two young immigrants in the California desert.

The attacker, Mark Anthony Stroman, killed two other immigrants in the Texas attack.

The film's director / co - writer / producer Alejandro G. Iñárritu took home three trophies, capping the night off with a plea for better treatment of immigrants in America.

He directed a television documentary about the new generation of immigrants in the U.S., America Becoming (1991); an Oprah Winfrey - produced miniseries for ABC, The Wedding (1998); and a quirky but insubstantial feature starring James Earl Jones and Lynn Redgrave, The Annihilation of Fish (still unreleased), among many other projects.

And consider the original screenplay nominations for «Dirty Pretty Things,» a political thriller about immigrants in London, and Denys Arcand's «The Barbarian Invasions,» about a dying leftist intellectual in Quebec.

The film offers an account of the 1985 riots in the Handsworth district of Birmingham from the perspective of black and Asian immigrants in the area whose narratives were marginalized by the British press.

Pedro Costa's Horse Money (Cavalo Dinheiro), like earlier works Vanda's Room (No Quarto da Vanda, 2000) and Colossal Youth (Juventude em Marcha, 2006), documents the lives of the Cape Verdean immigrants in outer - Lisbon.

Bahrani again shows his flair for uncharted sociological terrain — in this case, the off - the - radar experiences of immigrants in rural areas — but hitches it to an unnecessary conceit.

Olcott's «The Lad From Old Ireland» — which played especially well to the growing number of Irish immigrants in the U.S. at the time — is one of the first known examples of an American studio shooting a movie in a foreign location.

Before the February launch of «Fresh Off the Boat,» starring Randall Park and Constance Wu as Taiwanese immigrants in Miami, the last Asian family sitcom was 1994's «All American Girl» starring Margaret Cho, which lasted just one season.

January 30, 2017 • For a second day, there were protests in support of detained refugees and other immigrants in cities and at major airports across the U.S. Protesters chanted: «Let Them In» and «All Are Welcome.»

November 26, 2014 • In Monterrey Park, Calif. — home to the fastest growing population of Chinese immigrants in the U.S. — community leaders are trying to get the word out about «deferred action» eligibility.

Philadelphia officials and the Justice Department are rejecting a federal judge's idea for settling their dispute over how the city deals with immigrants in the country illegally.

Well, it so happens that some gas from a fridge, or something, leaked and it has killed all of the immigrants in the hold, minus, of course, the woman that was in the engine room.

Adapted by Joel and Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson from Laura Hillenbrand's book, Unbroken deliberately zeroes in on the discrimination Louie and his family suffered as Italian - American immigrants in the early 20th century, a cruelty that led Louie to turn to alcohol and petty theft.

Though more mainstream - oriented audiences will not be on board with Ahn's brand of subtlety, for those willing to fully invest themselves, Spa Night offers a carefully considered story about identity or rather identities, with David having to figure out a way to accommodate his orientation and his position as the only child of Korean immigrants in L.A..

Nobody looks out for the little guys Immigrants in Florida fear that theyll be overlooked as the state.

A matchmaking service aimed at sugar daddies and sugar babies is feeling the heat after posting a billboard advertising to undocumented immigrants in Austin, Texas.

Peterborough is home to one of the largest concentrations of Italian immigrants in the UK.

The amount of money that the AND receives from the food industry is fairly insignificant in terms of the AND's overall budget, but the work that thousands of registered dietitians are doing in under - served communities, with children and families, with the elderly, with immigrants in helping improve health is worth billions of dollars in terms of health care savings.

Their dream, to provide quality medical care for Jewish immigrants in surroundings where their language and customs were understood, was achieved in 1926 when The Miriam received a charter from the Rhode Island state legislature.

Mildred S. Dresselhaus was born to impoverished Polish immigrants in the Bronx, New York in 1930, at the start of the Great Depression.

The national debate over illegal immigrants in the United States has sparked fears among health authorities about the spread of diseases, such as tuberculosis, but a new study indicates that those concerns are overblown.

When the researchers analyzed samples from 671 residents and 1502 immigrants in Norway between 1994 and 2005, they found that the strains brought in by immigrants generally stayed confined among the immigrant population, on average infecting two residents and 13 immigrants each year.

Among the immigrants in the science and engineering workforce, the largest share (18 percent) worked in computer and mathematical sciences, while the second - largest share (8 percent) worked in engineering.

Canada originated the system of admitting immigrants based on skill levels rather than on employment promises, but it will drop this approach in 2014 because of what Maclean's magazine calls the «ugly reality facing so many» of the skilled immigrants in the country: great difficulty finding work and low earnings when they do.

«It's been shown empirically that as you have more immigrants and greater diversity of immigrants in a city, people's wages also increase, which is certainly not the narrative that is often told about immigrants in our society.

«Immigrants in those places still seemed to be able to benefit despite the fact that they're in this unwelcoming environment.

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.

Dr. Ray undertook this study because of the large number of immigrants in Ontario from East Africa, particularly Ethiopia and Eritrea, who are known to metabolize codeine into morphine faster than people from some other parts of the world.

The study controls for variations in the offered salaries and job titles; characteristics of the firms making the offers; and the visa histories of the immigrants in question.

In her sociological research Glick has documented the stresses on Hispanic and Asian immigrants in Phoenix, which intensified during the recession of the past four years.

Matloff has been very active in various Chinese communities, opposing discrimination against Chinese immigrants in the United States.

This survey of recent Muslim immigrants in Germany (204 participants) and the U.S. (198 participants) in late 2014 showed that in Germany, which is described as a tight society that expects more conformity, Muslims reported having a more difficult time integrating than immigrants in a looser society, such as the U.S..

Long before the Syrian refugees were poisoned, Pringle says, immigrants in California were dying as the death cap expanded its range along the West Coast.

The speakers include the 60,000 citizens of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and 5,000 to 15,000 Marshallese immigrants in the U.S..

In an exclusive interview Tuesday on CNN's John King, USA, Gov. Jan Brewer, R - Arizona, said until the borders are secure, she has no interest in working with President Obama on passing a comprehensive federal immigration bill that includes a path to citizenship for the millions of undocumented immigrants in the country.

Queens Assemblyman Francisco Moya spoke of undocumented immigrants in the military who he said proudly serve the country — he gave the example of his father, a Vietnam War veteran who immigrated from Ecuador and became a citizen not too long ago.

And Javier H. Valdés, the co-director of Make the Road New York, another advocacy organization pushing for immigrant rights, described the decision as «a step backwards for the rights of immigrants in this country.»

The orders signed Wednesday also require federal officials to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants in cities where they are not turned over to federal authorities.

A couple of quick fire ones now: Are there too many immigrants in Britain?

Carl Paladino's comments about «damn Asians» and other «foreigners» attending the University at Buffalo on discounted tuition have sparked both condemnation and a community conversation about the role of immigrants in the region's future.

Turner and the Democrats opposed our legislation requiring local jails to honor federal immigration detainers and keep illegal immigrants in state custody.

She said heightened tensions in Washington over undocumented immigrants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program make it more important than ever that the state legislation, first proposed eight years ago, finally become law in New York.

It was vintage Cuomo, beginning with a mention of his Italian immigrant grandparents and their experience, then covering a variety of state government and political initiatives on education, minimum wage, M / WBE contracting and undocumented worker protections and concluding with a fierce declaration of support for diversity and the integral role of immigrants in seeking and sustaining the «American Dream.»