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group were extremely poor. Ireland was a land of peasants with a high unemployment rate, and those who boarded the ships for Ameri...

1870s, allowing for "the majority of German-Americans came via steamship, avoiding the dangers of the sailing vessel" (Hager, 2005...

"for the most arduous forms of shift work in the car, steel and mining industries" which made it impossible for them to participat...

as it was a pattern for Asian men to leave their families at home while they came alone to America to work. They were also sim...

the helm in the "New World". Each component group of the immigrant wave was subjected to the same pressure to become...

South in the United States. Although neither Washington, Oregon, nor British Columbia were considered true advocates of slavery, ...

wants to be counseled but a young counselor finds that she not only is very different from the client who comes from China and bar...

respect, everything that brought solidity to an individuals life in their former country, has been stripped from them. It is as if...

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

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

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

comes to immigration and socialized states, in other words, whether immigrants will go to a particular country because of its soci...

himself during this period (Ross, 1999). He began writing soon after his arrival in Canada, and won the "Canadian Fiction Magazin...

p. 187). There are, in fact, several authors including Mead who see the ongoing development of identity as an issue of constructi...

children grows up speaking a language other than English and this fact has reshaped the nature of education and the focus of educa...

the United States, many perceive their entrance as a process that includes the difficult transition into a culture that is differe...

there has historically been quite a bit of argument as to whether states or the federal government should preside over immigrants ...

the nature of bilingual education have urged support for ESL programming in many educational settings. In recent years, ESL and...

quo (Ruddell and Urbina, 2004). In his analysis of the history of incarceration in the US, Vogel (2003) charts a relationship be...

each controlled by its on nobility, and a united German state did not emerge until the 1870s. Therefore, it is problematic to defi...

retain, but also what we inherit from preceding generations, and pass on to the next" (Joshi, 1996). These two qualities, giving u...

(Amselle, 1995). Other recommendations include having illegals receive only emergency services from the government (Amselle, 1995)...

of the nation, America is and was considered a land where someone could be anything they wanted, and they could succeed and be ric...

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

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

of child and convict workers. The movement opened doors for women, African Americans and immigrants that had up until then been s...

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

result in stressful family conflicts over role expectations and individual behaviors" (Bhattacharya, 2002; p. 175). Acevedo...

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...

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