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An Article Analysis on Illegal Immigrants That Appeared in The New York Times

Hispanic Center), during 2001, the "unauthorized" labor force in the U.S. totaled 5.3 million workers. Out of this were 700,000 re...

Immigrants and the Definition of Steerage

States. This simple information thus far illustrates that those people in steerage were, first and foremost, considered less tha...

July 1863 NY Draft Riots

immigrated to America during the potato famine of the 1840s (Man, 1951). They found employment as dock laborers and longshoremen ...

Immigration and Ellis Island

what is known as National Origins Act and this was responsible for a great decrease in the number of people who came to Ellis Ilan...

Pending Bill Legislation Number S. 2187 for the 2004 Haitian Refugee Immigration Improvement Act

2004, Pending Legislation Bill Number S. 2187. II. Social Problem...

Contrasts Between Culture and Medical Science in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

Learning Center Ideal

socially. The greater the overall interaction the better the prospects for economic improvement (Lewin-Epstein et al, 2003). Onc...

Russian Immigrant Outpatient Treatment for Alcoholism

in certain populations. A study conducted by Dawson and Grant (1998) concluded that alcohol dependence has a distinct correlate t...

Canada's Homeless Immigrants

them to attempt to deal with the problem of language barriers and cultural differences. If the immigrant is not able to learn the...

Student Social Work Case Study Assessment

extent challenged when her cousin decided to get married. Up until that point, Ludmilla had created and lived a life where at leas...

Early American Cinema, 'The Other,' and Social Tensions

makes constitutes the "others" uniqueness. "The Other" inFilm The existence of "the other" has figured prominently throughout the...

A Fictional Accounting of a Seventeenth Century Immagrant's Experiences

experienced world traveler. With the knowledge of what had happened to the native peoples of the Barbados, the native peoples tha...

Asian Immigrants to the U.S. After World War II

been prohibited from becoming citizens in the U.S. thanks to age-old biases and prejudices (Asian American History, 2004). Howeve...

Cultural Differences Between Tehran, Iran and Los Angeles, CA

three hours would be almost laughable in Los Angeles - and if a person doesnt like food (or is too full), there is little hesitati...

U.S. Immigration Policy Bias?

and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the French, the Germans, the Scotch-Irish; and from each we took part of their...

Dade County, Florida and Haitian Immigrant Problems

the 1990s an estimated one million immigrants were arriving per year (Suarez-Orozco, 2000). The type of immigrants that arrived d...

Patrolling the Border

responding to electronic sensor alarms and aircraft sightings, and interpreting and following tracks" (U.S. Customs & Border Prote...

Voting and Legal Immigrants

as recently as the 1920s" (Worth, 2004). And, interestingly enough, until the city of New York abolished its school boards, "all r...

Corruption and Political Machines of New York City

political; in fact, religion and settlement had a great deal to do with the manner by which political machines eventually overran ...

Immigrant Development in Camara Laye's Radiance of the King

while. It was the first time he had witnessed one of the native dances, and the novelty and strangeness of this rather barbaric sp...

Anton Shammas and Being a Palestinian in America

of that pool of your created, acquired and invented memories" (Shammas 24). A.s Palestinian father belonged with the roughly 800,...

Immigrant Cultural Identity in Jose Antonio Villarreal's Pocho

home from school one day, looks at his house, and notes the following: "On the floor of the living room, where two of the girls sl...

'Amerka, Amerka' by Anton Shammas

(ICA), Shammas was literally forced to view some "nature" while in the Southwest, which resulted in what sounds like a miserable t...

American Immigration Theories

(Handlin 75). This was also the reason, although Handlin doesnt state it as such, that immigrants tended to feel more comfortable ...

Immigrant Writers on Acculturation and Assimilation

sentimentality but her readership was attracted to such tales of courage, determination and, most important of all, success in Ame...

The Immigration of Arabs to the U.S.

this period of time came from Syria, which includes those territories that we know better today as Jordan, Israel, and Lebanon(Naf...

'British Stiff Upper Lip'

Jewish immigrants. People like Bob Hope, who was born in England, have contributed richly to our culture. Charlie Chaplin, also f...

Symbolism of the Coyote in The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle

waxed Japanese car with personalized plates" hits Candido on a road going through the canyon (Boyle 3). While the lives of these t...

A Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Guttierez by J. Breslin

the contractors were building shoddy buildings, and nobody was getting reported for any of it. Of course Guttierez had no knowled...

U.S. Immigration and Illness

female immigrants with matrons present but in 1914, two women doctors had been hired to conduct exams for female subjects (2000)....