Sentences with phrase «third generation immigrants»

We find evidence suggesting that early - arriving first generation immigrants perform better than do second generation immigrants, and second generation immigrants perform better than third generation immigrants.

Many ethnic minorities are coming to Canada, and most of the population is second and third generation immigrants.

To date, it remains unclear whether the expectations of female clients are better met in birth centers than in hospital or home births and if the offered birth care connects to the needs of different social groups, such as non-Dutch women, including first, second and third generation immigrants [6, 8, 17].

So, in countries including Japan and Germany, one can be a second or third generation immigrant and still be denied citizenship.

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

I grew up in a Lutheran church, and much of who I am can be traced back to those second - and third - generation Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and German immigrants who left...

Furthermore, even prior to the onset of the current refugee crisis, the tendency to view or label immigrants in ethnic or religious terms has led to a «culturalizing» of social problems, not to mention the fact that a sense of discrimination and alienation can push refugees and second and third - generation European Muslims down the very path of radicalisation that Western societies are attempting to combat.

Lets be honest you can be a second or third generation Asian in the UK and still be seen as an Immigrant, when I was in the Labour party and we spoke about immigration you would always hear the same crap about ah yes they may be born here but they all support the Pakistan cricket team.

Officer Holder was also an immigrant success story, having emigrated here and becoming a third - generation police officer.

My work in Chicago, which followed 6,200 kids (though not all were immigrants) for eight years, has showed that first - generation kids tend to have much lower violence rates, 50 percent less, than the third generation.

The second and third generations of immigrant workers experienced new and serious health problems as result.

Despite Huntington's thorough presentation of the evidence, I am not convinced that the research shows that the process of assimilation - in particular, the acquisition of language and improvements in student achievement - is proceeding any slower among second - and third - generation Mexican - Americans than it did among other immigrants from peasant and village and small - town backgrounds.

: Examining Language Growth Trajectories among First, Second, and Third Generation Latino Immigrants.

These Long - Term ELs are second - or third - generation immigrants.

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.

Specifically, we investigate whether first, second, and third generation Asian and Hispanic immigrants in Florida perform differently on reading and mathematics tests, and whether they are differentially likely to get into serious trouble in school, to be truant from school, to graduate from high school, or to be ready for college upon high school graduation.

Third, participating mothers were primarily first - generation Hispanic / Latino immigrants.

Immigrants of the third generation or later are more comfortable with the local language and culture.5, 6 Intermarriage can benefit immigrants or ethnic minorities to become part of the dominate culture, though they may lose identification with tImmigrants of the third generation or later are more comfortable with the local language and culture.5, 6 Intermarriage can benefit immigrants or ethnic minorities to become part of the dominate culture, though they may lose identification with timmigrants or ethnic minorities to become part of the dominate culture, though they may lose identification with their own.7

The Irish, Italian, German, and other immigrants from the late 1800s and early 1900s melded into our society and are now second -, third -, and fourth - generation Americans buying and selling real estate.

(Laughs) Actually, my dad had always done them when I was a kid, and he learned from an immigrant from Austria years ago, so I'm sort of a third - generation silhouette artist.