Sentences with phrase «new immigrants and refugees»

Gokey is president of The Business Training Institute, which provides educational and support services to high - risk children and families in Utica, N.Y., including new immigrants and refugees.

Due to a large influx of new immigrants and refugees to the area from Central America, Africa, and the Middle East — most notably Kurdistan and Syria, earning one neighborhood the nickname Little Kurdistan — at least 18 percent of MNPS students are now English - language learners, and a full third of students do not speak English at home.

New immigrants and refugees in American schools: Multiple voices.

While his application was pending, the man settled in the Philadelphia area and Hogan Lovells assisted with obtaining and maintaining his Employment Authorization as well as locating resources for new immigrants and refugees.

DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society is an accredited, registered non-profit agency offering a wide range of services and programs aimed at assisting new immigrants and refugees to integrate successfully into their new community.

Friesen says it will provide office space that pro bono lawyers can use to work with new immigrants and refugees.

What it means: An 18 - year veteran educator, Manning teaches new immigrants and refugees English at Joel E. Ferris High School.

Due to a large influx of new immigrants and refugees to the area from Central America, Africa, and the Middle East — most notably Kurdistan and Syria, earning one neighborhood the nickname Little Kurdistan — at least 18 percent of MNPS students are now English - language learners, and a full third of students do not speak English at home.

Tenants, many of them new immigrants and refugees, marched along Main Street Monday to the Civic Center because they believe improvements tied to the district could displace them or cause their rents to rise out of their price range.

Second, suburbs are becoming home to a new Diaspora that includes new immigrants and refugees, as well as former urban poor who fled the cities.

Not exact matches

Church volunteers have befriended refugees and other new immigrants, helped them find jobs and homes, and showed them God's love — no matter what their background.

As poor and desolate as they were, these immigrants were able to ignite, not decimate, the economies of their adopted homes and build whole new industries and centers of trade that had not existed and may never have existed had the refugees never arrived.

We will plan to present new research on how churches are engaging immigrants and refugees, how Americans view immigrants, and more.

«The issuance of a new executive order on refugees and immigrants acknowledges that there were significant problems with the first executive order that caught up green card holders and others as they tried to enter the United States,» said Tim Breene, CEO of World Relief, the evangelical refugee resettlement agency forced to close five offices and lay off 140 employees in the wake of Trump's decision to halve America's intake of refugees from 110,000 to 50,000.

We have a new powerful movement called the New Sanctuary Movement, which is organizing in solidarity with immigrant families and refugee families in Philnew powerful movement called the New Sanctuary Movement, which is organizing in solidarity with immigrant families and refugee families in PhilNew Sanctuary Movement, which is organizing in solidarity with immigrant families and refugee families in Philly.

Eva Hassett, Executive Director of the International Institute of Buffalo said, «For a century, the Institute has assisted refugees and immigrants who have arrived in Buffalo to seek a new life and a chance to achieve the «American Dream.»

As the nation continues to debate immigration policy, one restaurant in Troy, New York is hoping to create a safe space for immigrants and refugees.

Cuomo insisted New York remains a beacon for immigrants as the federal government moves to ban travel from seven Middle Eastern countries for three months and halt refugee travel for four months.

With this email, Cuomo gently reiterated his support for the state's new immigrants at a time when debate continues to rage over whether to keep the nation's borders open — particularly to Syrian refugees — in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris and California.

The Upstate Republicans are preparing to battle over a tax reform plan that could hurt New Yorkers financially, a budget that cuts programs that are popular Upstate such as Meals on Wheels and the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, and an immigration crackdown at a time when Upstate cities are embracing refugees and new immigranNew Yorkers financially, a budget that cuts programs that are popular Upstate such as Meals on Wheels and the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, and an immigration crackdown at a time when Upstate cities are embracing refugees and new immigrannew immigrants.

The Buffalo Partnership Project: A Common Core Collaborative is generating new learning methods for teachers as they instruct many of the refugee and immigrant students at Lafayette.

The Utica City School District has settled a lawsuit with New York state over allegations that it denied equal education opportunities to some refugee and immigrant students.

New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC): An umbrella policy and advocacy organization of more than 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups across New York State, NYIC has fought alongside the UFT for a more just and humane immigration policy and against anti-immigrant legislation like Arizona's SB 1070.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has joined the chorus of criticism against President Trump's ban on refugees and other immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim nations.

Sessions after lunch will center on narratives for change and will include breakout discussions on helping seniors live healthy, independent lives; helping immigrants and refugees thrive in their new community; and helping children and families escape poverty, among other topics.

Tenney, a longtime advocate for refugees who has ties to the large Bosnian refugee community in the Utica area, said she believes immigrants have helped make Central New York and the Mohawk Valley a better place.

After Trump's announcement, many climate activists said that the new president has it backward: Stemming the flow of refugees and immigrants starts by addressing climate change.

Even virtual reality, a development Cannes has been slow to embrace, is seeing an uptick: Mexican - American director Alejandro Inarritu will be among those debuting a new piece on the Croisette, when «Carne Y Arena (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible»), a story of refugees and immigrants, premieres in the official selection.

At the same time with these financial shortages, Finland is becoming a new home to many more immigrants and refugees who don't speak Finnish and therefore need intensive help and care if they are to truly feel at home in Finland.

CAL also has a long history of providing resources to service providers working with refugees and immigrants to help them adjust to their new lives in the United States.

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.

Manning teaches English to newly arrived immigrants and refugees at Joel E. Ferris High School, where she uses experiential projects like map - making to help her students process trauma, celebrate their home countries and culture, and learn about their new community.

Over the course of the past few months, the Student Voice Team has spoken with refugee and immigrant students to not only gain a better understanding of their personal experiences but also hear their take on the new Administration and the worldwide refugee crisis.

Their qualitative study of refugee parents in two schools in a declining northeastern city reveals that even in situations of material deprivation, public schools in the global North are more than capable of educating all of their students if they are able to accommodate new cultures of «space - making» and «identity - staking» for immigrant parents in their children's schools.

As an immigrant and new American by choice, I am further committed to assuring that all immigrant and refugee families have a fair and equal opportunity in our society.

The New Odyssey tells the story of the current crisis in chapters that alternate between a «big picture» overview and a riveting focus on the struggle of one lone immigrant, a Syrian refugee named Hashem al - Souki, who fled his native Damascus in search of a permanent place to resettle with his family.

In fact, between 1840 and 1880 Germans were the largest group of immigrants, boosted by the «Forty - Eighters» - a wave of political refugees leaving the German confederacy either because they were on the government's wanted list or simply because they were disappointed by the failure of the 1848 uprisings to bring about political change and wanted to start afresh in a new country.

A guide for immigrants and refugees to find free resources to help them settle into their new country

New languages, different customs and dramatic climate shifts are only a few of the challenges immigrants and refugees face upon arrival to Canada.

He talked about migration and said that, historically, people moved around and that many families in New York were refugees, and that we are all immigrants.

From refugees fleeing conflict, or facing oppression and natural disasters, to immigrants seeking opportunities and freedoms in new regions, the nomad presents as contemporary archetype.

William Pope.L, a Chicago - based performance artist known for his interventions in cityscapes, has produced a new work to address the liminal status of refugees and immigrants, specifically for documenta 14.

Kahraman's painting references the «migrant consciousness» and the double identity experienced by immigrants and refugees as they leave their home and struggle to adapt to new surroundings.

Tania Bruguera's The Francis Effect, which debuted at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2014, a performance in the guise of a political campaign, requests that the Pope grant Vatican citizenship to all immigrants and refugees and uses Pangea — a prehistoric supercontinent — as its logo.

The work in «I Am a Native Foreigner» ranges from photographs of Dutch immigrants disembarking at New York's Ellis Island around 1900, and Surinamese - born Dutch who made their home in the Bijlmer in Amsterdam southeast in the late «70s, to more recent images of refugees off the coast of southern Spain.

But, there's no way to view the installation in its New York incarnation without thinking of America's own troublesome contemporary rejection of immigrants and refugees.

They sit side - by - side with immigrant skeptics such as Nigel Farage or Jonathan Arnott who champion tighter restrictions on new comers and refugees.

When the $ 24.5 - million Welcome House in Vancovuer is completed in March 2016, it will form a new housing concept in providing shelter and support systems, including legal advice, for refugees and immigrants.

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION RECOGNIZES ATTORNEYS FOR PROTECTING LEGAL RIGHTS OF REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS Monday January 30, 2017 at 05:15 pm

The centre helps immigrants, refugees, new Canadian citizens, and visible minorities settle and adapt into new lives in Greater Victoria.