Sentences with phrase «struggling immigrant family»

Spa Night (Director & Screenwriter: Andrew Ahn)-- A young Korean - American man works to reconcile his obligations to his struggling immigrant family with his burgeoning sexual desires in the underground world of gay hookups at Korean spas in Los Angeles.

The stories explore the strengths and failings of Dominican - American love and relationships, from cheating men to struggling immigrant families.

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He credits his Italian immigrant grandfather, who scraped for years to bring his family to America only to struggle past poverty, for values that carry him today.

Speaking at the annual National Immigrant Integration Conference in Brooklyn, Cuomo mocked the anti-immigration sentiment that has permeated the nation's political discourse, touting his own family's struggles after coming to the US from Italy.

She said DACA has allowed many immigrant women to secure jobs and educational opportunities and could struggle to provide for their families if the DREAM Act is not passed.

During the campaign, she defined herself as a feminist who understands the struggles of working families and immigrants, someone who could break barriers for the upper Manhattan district, which has long been dominated by male leadership.

Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) and her Russian immigrant family struggle to make ends meet cleaning houses.

Ricky says he speaks Spanish about 90 percent of the time at home and that his family struggles in ways that are common among immigrant families living and working in California's agricultural communities.

Unfortunately, due to a combination of financial challengers and demographic shifts — in which Catholic families moved from cities to the suburbs and new Catholic immigrants moved to the South and Southwest U.S. rather than Northeast metropolitan areas — urban Catholic parishes struggled, particularly those in cities like New York, Chicago, Boston, and D.C.

In addition, immigrant families who speak languages other than English often struggle to transmit their home language to their children with many second - generation and most third - generation children having a strong or exclusive preference for English.

A lone immigrant leaves his family and journeys to a new world, both bizarre and awesome, finding struggle and dehumanizing industry but also friendship and a new life.

Such a beautifully written, un-putdownable story of a Ukrainian immigrant family struggling to settle a homestead in the prairies of Alberta.

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.

Whether writing about the adjustments of immigrants to a foreign land or the accommodations families make to the disruptive differences between generations, Divakaruni poignantly portrays the eternal struggle to find a balance between the pull of home and the allure of change.

Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a struggling immigrant willing to bet everything he has to restore his family's dignity.

Never didactic and often hilarious, this debut novel about a Muslim teen in Australia shows the diversity of her immigrant community as well as the discrimination and family struggles she experiences.

It is entitled «recession» it captures the struggle of Immigrant families in USA.

Aliza Nisenbaum's paintings as mentioned earlier are works that depict an immigrant community, struggles and all, where families and people live and work.

Understanding the cultural background of immigrant families has helped me to offer more sensitivity to the couples struggle.

Ms. Rameau has a passion for working with families and couples in the military; interracial / intercultural couples; immigrant individuals, couples and families struggling with cultural adjustment; and those struggling with launching issues and premarital issues.

Highly stressed families at risk for abuse and neglect, teen parent, poverty, unemployed or underemployed, struggling with addiction, homeless, immigrant isolated by language and culture, and life circumstances that increase risk for abuse and neglect and their children at risk for school failure