Sentences with phrase «whose immigrant experience»

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As CT reported in 2017, immigrant pastors and churches channel funds back to ministries in their home countries, such as one Los Angeles pastor from El Salvador, whose father experienced kidnapping and death threats while leading a church back home.

«It's an attractive idea in a lot of ways,» says Harvard Graduate School of Education Assistant Professor Vivian Louie, whose research looks at the role of the immigrant family in the educational experiences of second - generation Chinese Americans who are consistently presented as high academic achievers.

Undoubtedly, most nations count large numbers of students whose immigrant or minority families do not share a common historical experience.

Jorge Argueta is a celebrated Salvadoran poet and writer whose bilingual children's books capture the stories and landscape of his beloved homeland as well as the immigrant experience in the U.S.. His poetry for children and adults has appeared in numerous anthologies and textbooks.

His ceaseless drawing as a boy presaged an output whose quixotic estrangements are perhaps traceable to his immigrant experience.

Paci, whose work is characterized as dealing with the political situation in Albania and his own experience as an immigrant, presents a polyptych comprised of 20 square fiberglass panels, which imitate a texture similar to stone, and on which he has reproduced with tempera, as though it were an al fresco painting, scenes from a traditional Albanian wedding which took place at the beginning of the nineties.

Parents of youth with internalizing and externalizing behaviors, substance use and abuse, delinquency, police arrests, out - of - home placements, and deviant peer association; parents who are depressed, highly stressed, living in poverty or high - crime neighborhoods, Spanish - speaking immigrants, parents returning from wars (e.g., Iraq / Afghanistan) who may be experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), mothers living in shelters or supportive housing because of homelessness or domestic violence, birth parents whose children are in care because of abuse / neglect, and family with transitions such as divorce, single parenting, and step - families