Sentences with phrase «of immigrant experience»

The Nigerian artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby's collage-esque paintings recount the fractured essence of the immigrant experience.

Each figure in paintings by Hayv Kahraman (b. 1981, Baghdad) represents the artist acting out elements of the immigrant experience, a theme informed by her own peripatetic biography.

In this riveting graphic novel, sepia - toned illustrations wordlessly reveal the loneliness and isolation of the immigrant experience.

Fernando does a fantastic job of capturing the isolation and displacement that are an essential part of the immigrant experience.

Ten - year - old Johann recalls the hardships and triumphs of the immigrant experience in 1902, as his German family emigrates in search of the «paradise» said to lie in America.

Picture Us In the Light adds to readers» consciousness of the immigrant experience — and the experience of children of immigrants in the United States.

The House of Broken Angels should be read by anyone who wants to understand the ambiguity of the immigrant experience in general and the Mexican - American experience in particular (Dottie B).

The award - winning Italian author Melania G. Mazzucco weaves her own family history into a great American novel of the immigrant experience.

In recent years, we've seen an uptick in stellar novels of the immigrant experience — from Behold the Dreamers to Americanah, from The Book of Unknown Americans to The Buddha in the Attic — and 2017 continues that trend, with an even greater emphasis on refugees» tales.

It is a lively meditation on female capabilities and happiness, on the mysteries of artistic inspiration (and the absurdities of artistic life), and, perhaps most movingly, on the pain and wonder of the immigrant experience in New York City.

But with (for example) a marvelous riff on the generic Chinese restaurant that exists at the edges of many towns in the Midwest, the novel makes clear that it is exploring a different sort of immigrant experience than we often read about — call it the Middle America Asian - American experience.

Dinaw Mengestu's first novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, earned the young writer comparisons to Bellow, Fitzgerald, and Naipaul, and garnered ecstatic critical praise and awards around the world for its haunting depiction of the immigrant experience.

Alternating chapters give voice to the women and their daughters, who, fitting into a larger picture, reveal one aspect of the immigrant experience in America.

Within this unit, students read and hear literature of immigrant experience.

The interview data complements these findings and shows teachers» greater knowledge of the linguistic complexity of schooling, the diversity of the immigrant experience, and their instructional responsibility.

94, education director for Define American, a media and cultural campaign to share stories of the immigrant experience.

The central problem of the picture has a lot to do with the idea that Cronenberg has again taken a pre-existing script and reordered it along distinctly Cronenbergian lines — that what must have read initially as a sociological text on another facet of the immigrant experience (much like screenwriter Steve Knight's Dirty Pretty Things) now plays like one of Cronenberg's investigations into the difficulty of parsing concepts like «normal» and «family» in the crushing crucible of bugs pretending to be human among humans.

As a movie, «Code Unknown» has held up remarkably well, capturing the incongruity of the immigrant experience in ways that still matter today.

Fans hold it as highly as The Godfather, but the film is its own animal, beautifully evocative of the immigrant experience.

Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, a native of Puerto Rico, said New York City's unemployment is lower in New York than many other cities because «we are the beneficiaries of the immigrant experience.»

Not exact matches

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.

The points system sees would - be immigrants graded on a scale of 100, with points awarded for language ability, age, education, work experience and adaptability to Canada.

As an Indian - born immigrant and tech entrepreneur myself, I have first - hand experience of some modes of thinking that, frankly, shocked me and rocked my belief in the Valley's story of its own openness.

«Foreign work experience is largely discounted by Canadian employers when the immigrant first enters the Canadian labour market, and it is a weak predictor of economic success,» the analysis said.

Most of us have succeeded because of admissions policies that took our race, class, and unique experiences as immigrants and children of immigrants into consideration.

Immigration has always been a central part of the American experience, and certain areas draw more immigrants than others.

It often takes time for economic immigrants to find proper jobs because of a lack of recognition of foreign credentials, real or perceived language or cultural competency issues, and / or the lack of Canadian work experience.

We are highly experienced in working with Human Resources personnel, in - house client counsel and foreign individuals from across a wide spectrum of industries to efficiently obtain U.S. immigrant and non-immigrant visas.

She is an organizer with extensive experience empowering workers, immigrants, LGBTQ individuals, and people at the intersection of these identities.

Unlike the marginalization experienced by earlier generations of Chinese immigrants, this new group integrates more fully into mainstream British society.

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.

This includes designing policy programs to provide detailed information about the changing Chinese economy, to develop platforms for sharing experiences and expertise among investing firms, and to mobilize the knowledge bases of transnational immigrant communities in Canada.

What if we didn't just look for a balanced photo op to keep Twitter off our back but instead really and truly welcomed and promoted and amplified the voices and experiences of women, minorities, immigrants, refugees, or those less formally educated right into valuable positions of power and influence at our conferences?

Everything except my immigrant church experience on Sundays and my home was dominated by the presence and influence of a fairly white America.

Submitting himself almost as a pilgrim to the common experience of immigrants to Israel, he succeeded in mastering the Hebrew culture, and more gradually in cultivating a deep familiarity with Israeli academic and intellectual life.

As late as the 1970s, Italian immigrant communities of Pentecostals were still saying to their American counterparts «you do not know the Catholic Church» in reference to their experiences in Italy.

It is this kind of experience, suffered in milder form by many immigrant groups, that leads Harold Cruse, perhaps the most thoughtful of contemporary black intellectuals, to write:

Years later, when I started teaching American history, I would use Frankenmuth to indicate to my students that the then - prevalent image of America as a melting pot did not capture the whole truth of the nation's immigrant experience.

I know nothing of Julia Young's domestic arrangements, but my experience of large U.S. cities is that the educated professional classes tend to live so far from the areas inhabited by recent immigrants that they might as well be in another continent.

Each band member is either an immigrant or the child of immigrants, and the record serves as an exploration and examination of the immigration experience in 2016 America.

The idea for the show occurred when original producer Norman Lear was first approached by a young associate who asked if he'd be interested in a Latino reinvigoration of the show with the immigrant American experience.

And, on 2016's Home of the Strange, the band gets both personal and socially - conscious, exploring the immigrant experience in modern American.

In the late 1970s my native Pike County, IL experienced an influx of Asian immigrants as several churches sponsored families from Laos out of refugee camps in Thailand, where they had fled from the economic collapse and mass killings that swept Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia after Richard Nixon withdrew troops from the region.

In these pages I argued that the real problem of «aliens» among us is represented not by immigrants but by the urban underclass and the intellectual overclass, both of whom are profoundly alienated from the rights and responsibilities of the American experience (see «The Aliens Among Us,» The Public Square, August / September 1993).

During the Mandate period the Arabs in the area of Zionist settlement experienced a phenomenal population rise (of births over deaths), and Mandatory Palestine attracted some 100,000 Arab immigrants from adjacent lands.

Distrusted and disliked, they experienced the kind of prejudice that immigrants always encounter.

GRG's Ciao Mambo offers a more elegant dining experience with «immigrant - style Italian cuisine» that is prepared in full view of customers.

Many of the company's nearly 500 employees share Ching Sun's immigrant experience, having found their first job in the United States at Wonton Food.

Today you can experience the great history of sauerkraut, which was brought to the United States by German immigrants (who were once called Pennsylvania Dutch), by opening a jar of Bubbies traditional naturally fermented Sauerkraut.

They have functions or seminars held every month, the topics including: 1) Lectures and Seminars on wine export operating procedures, related policies, and regulations; 2) Wine knowledge training, Australia wine history, culture and product promotion; 3) Communicate with local wine industry bodies, winery tours to interact with winemakers and winery owners; 4) Provide or share the procurement of information and resource; 5) Overseas marketing experience exploring and sharing, especially on Chinese market; 6) Help the Chinese immigrants integrate into local society through Wine & English exposure.