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were sold for five dollars each to work in the fish canneries in Alaska, by a Visayan from the island of Leyre to an Ilocano from ...

three largest and probably most important harbors were Boston, New York and Philadelphia (Hashagen, 1998). What many may not know ...

was very young, so young in fact that he had only a couple of fleeting memories of him. His mothers life was hard yet she managed...

childcare provisions. Women in Development programs stress immediate job placement as well as training and education. During the ...

as well. In todays world, the issue of bi-culturalism and patriotism is an important one - one precipitated by the unrest ...

Immigration Timeline, 2003). Many of the immigrants who came to the U.S. both prior to and after the Civil War did so out of comp...

far the most common cause of illness is soul loss"(Fadiman 8). What is most interesting about this book is that Fadiman...

they were not allowed to proceed with that claim ("Court rules" B6). In any event, the Elian Gonzalez case allows a student to gl...

law, it can also impose sanctions and penalties to ensure that this takes place....

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

As a matter of a fact, for a time, it did appear that a new age might be dawning for the political machine because of the dire nee...

and cons must be heavily weighed before any legislation is passed. The arguments against opening borders to immigrants have been ...

vice president of marketing may know a great deal about selling, because he had been promoted up from the sales route for example,...

attribute to a good education. The youngsters of a first-generation family often bear the incredible burden of making something o...

several problems with recent immigrants, however. These include language barriers, not having completed a GED, limited healthcare...

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

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

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