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From immigrants to ethnics: The life-worlds of Korean immigrants in Chicago
This study is an exploration of the way in which Koreans' move to the United States since the 1965 amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act has influenced their life, their new or modified modes of thinking, and changes in their milieu, taking the life-world experiences of Chicago's Koreans …
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Acculturation of Armenian immigrants
<p>This study researched Armenian immigrants ability to acculturate to life in the United States. Armenian immigrants face a number of challenges when first arriving to the United States and adjusting to American culture. The challenges stem from relational areas such as communication, family …
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Behaviors and Feelings Toward Immigrants
… is to examine how people behave and feel toward immigrants, specifically Mexican immigrants, predicted by a number of independent variables. The independent variables of interest are (1) people’s perception of immigrants’ competence and warmth, (2) two factors of personality from the Big Five, …
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The Museum of American Immigrants
… District of Columbia. The Museum of American Immigrants is a proposed facility for housing the exhibits regarding immigration sequences and their development that make up the United States of America. The ethnographic nature of the work, its artifacts, their collection, exhibition, …
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Effective Art Interventions for Adult Immigrants
<p>Many immigrants settle in the United States in search of a better future or to escape war, poverty, or trauma. The vast cultural dissimilarities between their country of origin and the host country, coupled with the lack of social support systems in their new environment, can severely impact an …
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The Survival Strategies of Immigrants in Limpopo: A case Study of Mozambican Immigrants in Nkowankowa Township, Tzaneen
… examined the survival strategies of Mozambican immigrants who reside in Tzaneen‟s Nkowankowa Township. This was done under the premise that these immigrants are excluded from participating in South Africa‟s labour market. Thus, the study sought to determine how these supposedly excluded …
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HEALTHY IMMIGRANTS? EXPLORING COUNTRY OF ORIGIN, PRE-IMMIGRATION EXPERIENCES, AND ACCULTURATION IN RELATIONSHIP TO U.S. IMMIGRANTS’ HEALTH
<p>Immigrants belonging to some racial/ethnic minority groups might not be benefitting from the healthy migrant effect. With data from the New Immigrant Survey (2003), which includes immigrants from Mexico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Jamaica, I examine the odds of three health outcomes, …
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Indians and immigrants: Survivance stories of literacies
<p>This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.</p><p>This project stems from my mixedblood heritage and from a community of mixedblood scholars. In this text, I relate stories of the early colonization of Southern New England, of the zones of contact between whites (primarily …
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Language exclusionary behavior and attitudes toward immigrants
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The literacy test for immigrants, 1886-1917
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science, 1957
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Are We Forgetting Someone? Undocumented Immigrants and Healthcare
The future of healthcare for undocumented immigrants (UIs) in the United States is bleak. Almost completely left out of healthcare reform, UIs are likely to comprise an increasingly greater portion of the U.S. uninsured population, with only limited options to meet their healthcare needs. Now more …
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Immigrants and Remittances: The Financial Ties That Bind
I use the nationally representative survey of legal permanent residents (LPRs) entitled "The New Immigrant Survey 2003 (NIS)" to answer the following questions:1) Are low-skilled remitters different than high-skilled remitters?2) What is the overall profile of a remitter?In answering the …
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Assimilating digital immigrants into high-access learning environments
As schools have placed an increased emphasis on instructional technology, the amount of money spent on hardware and student devices in classrooms has increased significantly ( Nagel, 2014). Because a dministrators are underestimating the instructional shift required for effective integration of …
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The attitudes of Zululand University academics towards immigrants
… restrictive attitudes towards immigration and immigrants of any country that has been surveyed in the world (Mattes, McDonald, Poore Richmond 1999)). There are an estimated ten to fifteen million immigrants in South Africa (Buthelezi 1996). Immigrants are generally seen as a threat to jobs and …
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Socialization in Chinese Academic Immigrants' Conversion to Christianity
… is to find social factors in Chinese academic immigrants’ conversion to Christianity using the perspectives of symbolic interactionism and social exchange theory. The research data are drawn from observation and interviews. Fourteen Chinese student converts were interviewed. The analysis …
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Bangladeshi immigrants' adaptation in the United States
This quantitative study explores Bangladeshi immigrants' adaptation in the United States. Bangladeshi immigrants are one of the fastest-growing minority ethnic groups in the United States. Despite their tremendous growth, little is known about them, and no systematic study of their adaptation to …
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