Sentences with phrase «of immigrant populations»

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 bullied.

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.

We can not develop a more comprehensive and effective approach to serving ELL students without teachers who understand the cultural nuances of immigrant populations.

Importantly, the growth of immigrant populations in small - town America is presenting rural communities and institutions with challenges they couldn't have imagined even 10 years ago.

«The concentration of positive blood donors is in areas with larger concentrations of immigrant populations,» Montgomery said.

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

This dot - density model of the immigrant population in the U.S. displays where immigrants are living across America.

What does it say about us when we make much ado about gay marriage, but neglect the needs of the immigrant population?

As to America, the combination of its immigrant population and its regime of religious liberty necessarily made it into the most pluralistic society in the modern world.

These meetings have already provided a benefit as we are working with community leaders to address the true needs of our immigrant population, not what we think they might need.

Another step in the alienation of the immigrant population, reinforcing other differences.

Although it is difficult to get an accurate picture of the immigrant population in the United States, researchers estimate that 1.8 million undocumented children and youth are now living in the country.

This dot - density model of the immigrant population in the U.S. displays where immigrants are living across America.

Because the American Community Survey pulls from a sample of 3 million households yearly and averaged over 5 years to attain estimates for each Census tract, Walker emphasizes that the map only represents estimates of immigrant population in the U.S. and is, therefore, subject to a margin of error.

The map, a dot - density model of the immigrant population in the U.S., is painted in colored dots representing immigrants» place of origin.

India, China and the Philippines contribute the most newcomers, about a quarter of the immigrant population.

Not exact matches

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

John Helliwell, a University of British Columbia economist who co-edited the report, told The Washington Post that the most surprising finding researchers came across was «the extent to which happiness of immigrants matches the locally born population.»

According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, more than four in ten white seniors say that a growing population of immigrants is a «change for the worse;» half of white boomers believe immigration is «a threat to traditional American customs and values.»

In Canada, Austrailia and Germany — to name a few places — immigrants and refugees have had a higher rate of successful entrepreneurial endeavors than the native population.

Despite accounting for only about 13 percent of the population, immigrants now start more than a quarter of new businesses in this country.

In addition to showing the estimated total population change in those areas between July 1, 2016 and July 1, 2017, the Census Bureau also included a breakdown of the components of that change, including net international migration, or the number of immigrants from other countries moving into a county minus the number of people leaving that county for another country.

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

Over two - thirds of the millennial population in Toronto and Vancouver are first or second - generation immigrants, and 39 % are Asian.

Disco nights offended some members of the conservative Romanian immigrant population, on whose goodwill the Transylvania depended.

It's insulting to think that the population of illegal immigrants, if made legal, will just sit back and be a drain on society.

She said she doesn't want any groups of students or young workers unintentionally left behind by whatever changes the Liberals ultimately decide upon, but suggested that future changes would look to target vulnerable populations like indigenous youth and new immigrants, who have a harder time accessing the job market.

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.

I would imagine in urban areas like Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, which have significant populations of recent immigrants, there's probably a significant subset of people who fled from countries where governments do all sorts of nasty things with the information they collect about their citizens and who aren't all that keen to provide such information here (you might say, «sure, but Canada's not Iran», to which the answer would be «exactly»).

A recent report by the Academy of Finland warned that some schools in the country's large cities were becoming more skewed by race and class as affluent, white Finns choose schools with fewer poor, immigrant populations.

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

Certain parts of Canada still have growing immigrant populations (Toronto & Vancouver in particular have huge Asian immigrant communities).

On the domestic political front, meanwhile, Canada is a country of immigrants with multiple large diaspora populations.

The fall in the number of births to immigrant women is explained by behavior (falling birth rates), rather than population composition (change in the number of women of childbearing age), according to a Pew Research analysis.

Between 1911 and 1920, when the total population hovered around 100 million, the United States welcomed an average of 600,000 immigrants each year.

Almost half of evangelicals (48 %) said that a growing population of immigrants has been a change for the worse, compared with a quarter of black Protestants.

In 2014, immigrants made up a little more than 13 percent of the U.S. population.

The present book, subtitled «How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization,» is a thesaurus of quotations from people on the variegated left who, whether they mean it or are just playing radical games, have declared war on our country, Western civilization, and common sense.

The members of the American commentariat most attuned to this plague of Euro - childlessness tend to discuss its impacts in terms of the rapidly growing Muslim population in Europe and the difficulties so many European states seem to have in assimilating immigrants from a different civilizational orbit.

If the current fertility level continues, Europe's population of 727 million will plummet to 556 million by the year 2050, requiring more than three million immigrants per year for the next fifty years if Europe is to remain economically viable.

(Mormons are much more likely than evangelicals or the U.S. population overall to see immigrants as making a positive contribution to society, said David Campbell of the University of Notre Dame, who helped advise the Pew Forum on the survey.)

Once those enforcement programs are fully in place (not promised, actually in place), our residual population of unauthorized immigrants should receive both amnesty and a fairly speedy path to US citizenship.

Church attendance is decreasing, though, and a larger share of the population is made of recent immigrants and their children who have no history of center - right political activism.

These losses, however, have been partly offset by the number of people who have changed their affiliation to Catholicism (2.6 % of the adult population) but more importantly by the disproportionately high number of Catholics among immigrants to the U.S..

Many immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere also stem from predominantly Christian countries outside of Europe, such as the Philippines, ancestral home to the second - largest Asian American population, and Ghana, one of sub-Saharan Africa's several rapidly Christianizing nations; Many also come from Christian sectors of such religiously mixed countries as Korea, Vietnam, India and Lebanon.

The Dakota Territory had absorbed a large wave of immigrant homesteaders, a population vulnerable to economic exploitation and political domination by the native born Americans who also flooded into the territory.

But the town enjoyed a large Catholic population, descendants of immigrants who had come in the 19th century to work in the mills, and they filled two large and thriving churches.

The Catholic population, which had been so enlarged by Irish immigrants, was now well served by a network of churches, religious houses and schools (which now received some state funding).

In a larger country with a smaller population, Canadian evangelicals are more likely to support sharing resources and welcoming immigrants and refugees; they are less likely to feel a sense of «manifest destiny» or to see their country as a Christian nation, according to Brian Stiller, the Ontario - based global ambassador of the World Evangelical Alliance.

Across town, the growth of a postindustrial economy has made the northern and western suburbs attractive destinations for a technically oriented immigrant population from India and Pakistan and its religious institutions.