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Imagination Toward Identity in Lisa Lowe's Immigrant Acts

as "diaspora" and "world citizenship" have no identity within themselves (Bow, 18). To regain a sense of belonging in a new countr...

Peter Jennings: An American Immigrant

a well-respected and world-famous journalist who was trusted by the American people to bring them the news objectively. From hosti...

1990-2005 Immigration to the United States

more legal immigrants than all other nations in the world combined."6 Because of this dramatic increase in immigrant population, ...

Learning Center Ideal

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

Overview of the U.S. Immigration of Mexicans

that occurred as a direct result of Mexican immigration were both vast and far-reaching, with gender issues residing near the top ...

Culture Clash in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

as intimate terms, yet knowing little about their culture, has always seemed a shame. But, there were no individuals who this read...

California Immigration and William A. Clark's The California Cauldron

fifteen years in particular, California has changed dramatically in its demographic makeup. Clark explores the changes in laws an...

Proposition 187 in California

This report consisting of ten pages examines a 1994 voter initiative that prevented children of immigrants from public school atte...

America and I by Yezierska

In five pages an essay by immigrant Yezierska entitled 'America and I' is critically assessed with assimilation in America, the Am...

Parallels of Fact and Fiction in the Immigrant Experiences of Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land

In five pages this paper discusses Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land from an Asian immigrant cultural perspective. Three sourc...

The 1999 Shooting of Amadou Diallo in New York City

In a paper consisting of five pages the shooting of an immigrant by four policemen in NY is examined through the critical analysis...

American Literature's Portrayal of Immigrant Families

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the way immigrant families are presented in Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marsh...

Canada and the Adaptation of Immigrant Children

peer groups( Samuel and Verma, 1992). As the extent of this list implies, immigrants and their children make up a population of pe...

Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska

In a paper consisting of five pages this autobiographical text is considered in terms of a female Polish immigrant coming to Ameri...

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...

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...

Summary of John Ashcroft's Consideration of Granting Abused Women Asylum

she were to return to her native Togo her clitoris would be cut off(Swarns 2004). Lastly, there is the case of Mrs. Alvarado who i...

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

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

Immigrant Social Workers and Domestic Violence Implications

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

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...

Patrolling the Border

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

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...

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...

America and Immigrant Students

with a strong work ethic and traditions tend to foster better grades and achievement. For instance, it is stereotypical that Asian...

Post 1865 Minority Labor Organization Success

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

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 ...

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...

Illegal Immigrant January 2004 Work Visa Extension and President George W. Bush

of his plans for issuing work visas to illegal immigrants brought several facts to the surface which had previously been largely i...

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...