YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :THE LANGUAGE OF IMMIGRANTS
Essays 301 - 330
as well. In todays world, the issue of bi-culturalism and patriotism is an important one - one precipitated by the unrest ...
from Muslims and Arabs and in the United Kingdom, Hindus and Sikhs have insisted that they should not be collectively referred to ...
three hours would be almost laughable in Los Angeles - and if a person doesnt like food (or is too full), there is little hesitati...
been prohibited from becoming citizens in the U.S. thanks to age-old biases and prejudices (Asian American History, 2004). Howeve...
p. 187). There are, in fact, several authors including Mead who see the ongoing development of identity as an issue of constructi...
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...
South in the United States. Although neither Washington, Oregon, nor British Columbia were considered true advocates of slavery, ...
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 ...
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...
quo (Ruddell and Urbina, 2004). In his analysis of the history of incarceration in the US, Vogel (2003) charts a relationship be...
extent challenged when her cousin decided to get married. Up until that point, Ludmilla had created and lived a life where at leas...
of his plans for issuing work visas to illegal immigrants brought several facts to the surface which had previously been largely i...
Hispanic Center), during 2001, the "unauthorized" labor force in the U.S. totaled 5.3 million workers. Out of this were 700,000 re...
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...
States. This simple information thus far illustrates that those people in steerage were, first and foremost, considered less tha...
immigrated to America during the potato famine of the 1840s (Man, 1951). They found employment as dock laborers and longshoremen ...
in certain populations. A study conducted by Dawson and Grant (1998) concluded that alcohol dependence has a distinct correlate t...
socially. The greater the overall interaction the better the prospects for economic improvement (Lewin-Epstein et al, 2003). Onc...
2004, Pending Legislation Bill Number S. 2187. II. Social Problem...
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...
them to attempt to deal with the problem of language barriers and cultural differences. If the immigrant is not able to learn the...
experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...
the 1990s an estimated one million immigrants were arriving per year (Suarez-Orozco, 2000). The type of immigrants that arrived d...
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...
and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the French, the Germans, the Scotch-Irish; and from each we took part of their...