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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"new immigrant"”.
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Improvised care: public health with Latinos in new immigrant destinations
As Latino immigrants continue to settle in new destinations across the U.S., human service institutions in these communities struggle to meet the intense needs of their increasingly diverse clients (Jiménez, 2007). Health care providers in particular are often ill-equipped to serve Latino newcomers …
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MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION AND EDUCATION POLICIES IN TAIWAN PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS: TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVE AND EXPERIENCE
The number of new immigrants and international marriages is increasing in Taiwan, resulting in growing interest in multicultural and multilingual education. The purpose of the present study was to explore public elementary school teachers’ perspectives and experiences regarding the implementation …
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Physical Activity Experiences of Persian Women Recently Immigrated to Canada
New immigrants to Canada are generally in similar or better physical and mental health than people born in Canada, however, many studies suggest that their health tends to decline quickly after immigration. Lower physical activity levels among new immigrants might be contributing to this …
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Immigrants and Remittances: The Financial Ties That Bind
… 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 aforementioned questions, I establish a strong …
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Fordsburg's urban memory - cultural significance and its embodiment in the ordinary landscape
… with the Indian community and more recently a new immigrant population from the Indian subcontinent. Transitory communities have left their mark on the suburb and have resulted in changing significances and heritage resources. The study's main aim was to identify what constants have gained …
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Religious Factors and Status Attainment among US Immigrants
… about the religion-stratification link for US immigrants. Using the New Immigrant Survey (NIS) 2003, this dissertation examines the role of religious orientations and spiritual commitments on status attainment measures such as education, employment, and income among recent US immigrants. NIS is …
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Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs in New England area
More and more Chinese immigrants came to the U.S. to start a whole new life. Some of them became entrepreneurs. This study focused on Chinese new immigrant entrepreneurs in New England area, and analyzed what factors have the most effective impact of the Chinese new immigrants to become an …
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Challenges and Opportunities of Chinese Immigrant Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Transition Services
… study is to understand the experiences of newly immigrated Chinese students with intellectual disabilities who are in transition programs. In depth interviews were conducted with four students and their families. Quality of life, sense of self, nature of relationships, beliefs about …
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Cross-Institutional Collaboration and Exhibit Making: “On the Gold Mountain: Chinese Mining History and Heritage of Idaho” at the Idaho Museum of Mining and Geology
<p>The Gold Rush, which brought many new immigrant communities to the American West, made a permanent impact on American culture by prompting the development of many Western towns. However, the Chinese immigrant mining population in the Boise, Idaho area has had little museum representation despite …
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Selectivity, Transferability of Skills and Labor Market Outcomes of Recent Immigrants in the United States
This dissertation analyzes how immigrants' individual and home country characteristics affect and determine their labor market participation, returns to education and wages in both their country of origin (before migration occurs) and in the United States. The dissertation also estimates the extent …
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Visitors Pass: The Story of a Group of Pakistani Immigrant Students at Sawyer High School
<p>New immigrant populations are shaped in significant ways by globalization. The phenomenon of transnationalism has changed the localized sense of "home" and "local cultures" on a global scale. In fact, "Globalization lies at the core of current sociocultural experiences, especially in processes …
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The racial politics of urban celebrations : a comparative study of Philadelphia's Mummers Parade and Odunde Festival
… are challenged by demographic shifts and new immigrant populations. Festivals, as spatial expressions of identity that image city spaces, provide an important perspective on this topic. Philadelphia, as a former capital city that continues to struggle with race and identity in its …
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Just Like Everyone Else? Locating South Asians in 21st Century American Popular Media
… this group: savage foreigner, heavily accented new immigrant, and cheap small business owner. Rather, respondents describe and discuss contemporary representations to indicate that they are portrayed as assimilated and even "Americanized." However, from a critical race perspective, I argue that …
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The Role of Information and Communication Technology in the Acculturation of Vietnamese Refugees
… for more than three decades. As a relatively new immigrant group in the U.S., the Vietnamese still face a variety of challenges as they try to reestablish their lives and adapt in a new cultural environment. Acculturation is a complex process that is influenced by a number of factors. …
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Let's be Honest, Resident Participation and Inclusion in Hamilton's Neighbourhood Action
… participation, specifically from low-income and new immigrant residents. The study sheds light on the complex processes of exclusion that operate in participatory, community development projects, which are often premised on exclusionary discourses of class, race, and neighbourhood change. The …
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Immigration, Local Labor Markets, and Earnings Inequality in Micropolitan America
… Micropolitan areas have increasingly become new immigrant destinations (Wahl et al 2007); however, the impact of immigration on new small town destinations has not been thoroughly explored. Drawing upon previous research on new destinations and immigration and stratification in urban and …
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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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Using Social Cognitive Theory to Model Health Behaviors Among Chinese Children
… role in children's health behaviors and that new immigrant children are at risk of higher fast food consumption. Further research is needed to explore the significant relationships in a larger sample.</p>
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Social capital in rural southwest Kansas.
… United States. Hispanic audiences, especially new immigrant populations, have not been primary survey respondents in most studies. Information about the social connectedness of minorities has come from secondary sources. The goal of this study was to understand to what extent Hispanic, compared …
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Examining Immigrant Experiences in Asset Building: Implications for Asset-Based Policies
The economic integration of immigrants has long interested researchers and policymakers, with late but now growing attention on their asset- and wealth-building. Current research on immigrants’ asset building has largely focused on their individual-level characteristics, and not much on …
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