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Showing 1 to 20 of 1356 for “"Immigrant"”.
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Hispanic immigrant students
… In the last 50 years the vast majority of immigrants have come from Latin America and Asia. Due to the large increase in immigration and high birth-rates among Latinos/as, the number of immigrant children in schools has also increased dramatically. In 2004 it was estimated that there were …
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Immigrant Identities and Geographies of Belonging: Jamaican Immigrant Organizations in Toronto
… between the construction of Jamaican immigrant identities and the organizations they establish in Toronto. I investigate how various axes of identity including generation, race, gender, class and ethnicity influence Jamaican immigrants involvement in immigrant organizations and the …
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Three essays on immigrant nonprofit organizations and immigrant use of social services
Immigrant populations are moving to new destinations across the country and no longer settling predominantly in established immigrant destinations, causing stress on local governments. Local governments increasingly rely on nonprofit organizations to provide services to immigrant and refugee …
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Immigrant business breakout in a transnational environment: A study of Nigerian immigrant entrepreneurs
… global space is the multiple embeddedness of immigrant entrepreneurs. Unlike in the past where immigrant entrepreneurship was shaped by local and ethnic market conditions, advances in globalisation and mobility infrastructure have made it possible for immigrant entrepreneurs to deploy multiple …
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Immigrant integration into host societies: the case of yemeni immigrant communities in metro detroit
… study is intended to extend our understanding of immigrant political integration by analyzing Yemeni immigrants' attitudes toward integration into North American society, exploring the case of Yemeni-Americans, a group reputedly resistant to integration, in both Dearborn and Hamtramck, Michigan, …
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AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF IMMIGRANT REVITALIZATION: UNVEILING THE CRIME-REDUCING POWER OF IMMIGRANT SOCIAL CAPITAL
… & Kubrin, 2018). These findings align with the “immigrant revitalization thesis,” which argues that immigration reduces neighborhood crime by producing immigrant social capital and developing community social control. However, the proposed revitalization process has been rarely tested …
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Danish Cedar Falls : The immigrant experience
1 PDF file (vii, 70 pages)
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English Caribbean immigrant entrepreneurs in Montreal
Immigrants have a higher tendency to start their own businesses than the population at large, but English Caribbean immigrants, entering mainly under the Family Class category, tend to be salaried and wage earners as opposed to employers and self-employed persons. This thesis examines why English …
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Immigrant inflows and public goods provision
… The first paper investigates how Hispanic immigrant inflows affect K-12 public education finance in the US. I first document the long-run trend of mean household income and average number of children per household for Hispanic immigrant households relative to native households. An …
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A COMPARISON OF THE CULTURAL/ETHNIC PERCEPTIONS AND EDUCATIONAL BELIEFS OF KOREAN IMMIGRANT AND NON-IMMIGRANT FAMILIES
… a deeper contextual understanding of Korean immigrant parents' cultural/ethnic perceptions in relation to educational beliefs should be central to culturally responsive education designed to support Korean immigrant families. It is necessary for educators to examine the beliefs and practices …
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A qualitative exploration of Latino immigrant integration in the rural Midwest : long-term resident and immigrant perspectives
… Much of this increase is due to the migration of immigrants from urban areas to suburban and rural communities. Much of the extant literature on Latino immigrant integration focuses on urban areas and only accounts for the immigrants' perspective. The current study employs qualitative research …
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Understanding African Immigrant Health in the United States: An Exploratory Study of the Nigerian Immigrant Healthcare Experience
… little knowledge about the health of African immigrants. Although their population exceeds 2 million and still on the rise exponentially, a big gap exists regarding knowledge about health care access and outcomes for this population. Before relocating to the US, many African immigrants face …
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Immigrant Arabs and immigrant Jews in Montreal : their social interaction and attitudes toward the Arab-Israeli conflict
… an attempt to explore the social interaction of immigrant Arabs and immigrant Jews in Montreal and their attitudes toward the Arab-Israeli conflict. It examines the relationship between religiosity, friendship, and attitudes toward the conflict. As well, the thesis studies whether there is a …
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Intersections Between the Life Stories of Internationally-Trained Immigrant Women and Institutional Narratives of Immigrant Success in Ontario
… (Linde, 1993) of six internationally trained immigrant women, successful in finding employment in their fields of post-secondary teaching, with video success stories available on a government webpage for bridge training in Ontario and with national and provincial immigration and integration …
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Exploring risk-taking and health in immigrant adolescents to Canada: A unique focus on the “healthy immigrant effect”
The Healthy Immigrant Effect (HIE) describes the phenomenon in which immigrants initially experience better health outcomes than the host population, followed by a gradual decline in health across time and generations. While the HIE has been widely documented among adults, less is known about how …
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