...I chose to interview a female, in her thirties, that is from Ghana. She is married with two children and works in the mental health field doing research for the Veterans Association. The interview took place in an office setting and it was just the two of us present. The thing that I feel went well in the interview was that it felt more like a natural conversation than a formal interview. The atmosphere was quiet and we both seemed comfortable talking with each other. I cannot think of anything that went wrong during the interview and I feel power was distributed equally between myself and the person I chose to interview. Going into the interview I do not feel I had any preconceived notions about the person I chose to interview or her culture....
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...been a topic of much debate, but it is very rare that the American public sees the lives behind the term immigrant. When people think of an immigrant, many negative connotations such as illegal come into mind. While some immigrants are in the country illegally, not all are. Immigrants can also be residents or naturalized citizens of the country. What an immigrant truly is “a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country” (Google, 2017). They are not a group of people that can be defined by one depiction; immigrants can be brown, white, a single mom, a teenager, or a dad. Many people cannot imagine what the lives of an immigrant is like. A fraction of the population does not understand why people move here...
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...Additional Information Failure to Appear for Interview - If you cannot appear at your scheduled interview, contact the U.S. Embassy or Consulate as soon as possible. If you do not contact the U.S. Embassy or Consulate within one year of receiving your interview appointment letter, your case may be terminated and your immigrant visa petition cancelled, and any fees paid will not be refunded. Need to change the interview date and time - Review Interview Guidelines for the U.S. Embassy or Consulate where your interview is scheduled. My spouse and/or children were going to follow me to the United States after I immigrate. Can they accompany me instead? - Yes, you may change your spouse’s and/or children's status from follow-to-join to accompanying by directly contacting the U.S. Embassy or Consulate where your interview is scheduled. This may be done prior to your immigrant visa interview, and additional forms and documents may need to be provided. Can my children also receive immigrant visas, even if they were not originally part of the case? - If the immigrant visa category in which you are applying includes derivative children, your qualified unmarried children under the age of 21 may be added as derivative applicants after your interview has been scheduled. Contact the U.S. Embassy or Consulate for specific instructions. At the interview, the additional applicant(s) will be required to pay the same fees and submit the same forms and supporting documents as you. Visa eligibility: My...
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...America as an Ethiopian Immigrant. Since 2002, 17,221 children were adopted from Ethiopia. In addition, 134,547 Ethiopian immigrants were living in America in 2007. This film is intended to be a resource for adoptive parents and community members who work with immigrants. This includes schoolteachers, doctors, counselors, and employers. Background on Ethiopia: There are 90 individual languages spoken in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is broken down into different tribes. Each tribe has an individual language, But Amharic is the language that primary schools use. The music of Ethiopia is extremely diverse, with each of the country's 80 ethnic groups being associated with unique sounds. The main sport in Ethiopia is football(soccer). The best-known Ethiopia cuisine consists of various vegetable or meat side dishes and entrées, usually a wat, or thick stew, served atop injera, a large sourdough flatbread made of teff flour. One does not eat with utensils, but instead uses injera to scoop up the entrées and side dishes. Character: Radiet is 16 years old and has come to the states to get a better education and to have a family. She has been brought up without a family. Her dream is to have a good education and to explore another country. She is looking for a cultural change and value dimension through the different cultures. Interviewer: My interviewer is Kathryn Sorrels. He wrote the intercultural communication book for our class. There is an interview so that he can see how...
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...1. Introduction With the development of urbanization, immigrants become one of the special and important parts of metropolises. The issue of their integration into local society has become a new topic for many researchers. Especially in China, with the thirty years of reform and open relations, a huge number of domestic immigrants have migrated into the big urban areas. They are facing many obstacles in their struggle to make a position in a new environment. Is there anything that the urban planners and designers can do to help them blend into the society and give them a sense of belonging and identity? This research will make efforts to address this question and discuss the relation between immigrants and urban environments, particularly the public open spaces by a series of research methodologies. Some literatures will be reviewed and discussed to give a general understanding of the relation between urbanisation and immigrants and the effects of public open space. Then, in order to narrow the research scope, the investigation of immigrants’ social integration condition will be conducted in Guangzhou which is one of the most developed metropolises in China with large amounts of domestic immigrants. Moreover, the white-collar immigrants were chosen as the main research target group. In general, “white-collar” refers to a salaried professional or an educated worker who performs semi-professional office, administrative, and sales coordination tasks, as opposed to a blue-collar...
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...the United States, such an employment, family, refugee, immigration, and marriage visa. My father first applied here as an immigrant, and when he arrived in the United States, my mother applied for a marriage visa to join my father to start their new lives together. They both went to the United Nations office in Baghdad, Iraq, a complicated six-hour drive from Slemani, Kurdistan to proceed with the preliminary steps. When he filed for permanent residence, he had the choice to pick the three top countries he wanted to live in which he wrote; Denmark, Canada, and the United...
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...Postsecondary education provides unique opportunities for student development, and universities need to provide an inclusive space for student learning and development. With an increasingly diverse student population due to globalization, Canada has also seen an increase in the number of immigrants, reaching 21.9% of Canadians in 2016 (Statistics Canada, 2017). However, there are very few studies concerning the challenges and learning needs of immigrant students during their postsecondary education in Canada. Interviews with immigrant students show that even though they met the language proficiency requirement for admission, they did not perceive their own language capabilities to be sufficient to succeed in their courses (Quinn, 2013). Moreover, immigrant students tend to have low...
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...Western immigrants in japan Name: Institution: Professor: Course: Date: Title The title of this research proposal is; investigation into the current trend of Japanese immigration. Introduction The wave of globalization has been associated with an increase in cross-border relocations for goods, capital and human resources. The movement of people however in the post-world war attracted the attention of most of the industrialized nations of the west. Terrorist attacks of September 2011 initiated the review of immigration laws. Studies show that most of the industrialized states which tend to receive the highest number of immigrants are currently in the process of revising their demographic structures. They are characterized by an aging and shrinking population with consequences being evident in their work force. UNPD report of 2000 regarding replacement migration in the industrialized nations shows vividly the replacement is important to maintain the level of employed to that of the unemployed (Coleman, 2000). Japan being amongst fastest industrialized nations of the world is reported to experience high number of immigrants from the western countries. If demographic factors such as fertility and retirement age are not revised, the country will need a high labor immigration to maintain its workforce. Its political leaders are however reluctant in embracing measures to open doors for such immigrants. The country still continues to bar the entry of foreigners...
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...honours in Psychology. The field of interest is of emotional, behavioural and academic adaptation of immigrants in Universities here in South Africa as I have personally experienced some of the struggles of adapting to a new country. My reason for contacting you is to request that my research proposal be submitted for peer assessment as the proposed assignment is essential for my course in research methodology. Through the peer assessment I am hoping to gain a constructive opinion of my research topic and my capability to construct a research proposal for a scientific study. I hope to hear from you soon. Yours sincerely Sean Groenewald 44 Claasen Street Johannesburg The Effect of Stress on Emotional, Behavioral and Academic Adaptation in Relation to Newly Immigrated Students in South Africa The proposed study aims to measure stress related to the emotional, behavioral and academic adaptation of immigrant students who have recently moved to South Africa. After having lived in Belgium for four years and having personally experienced the stress of adapting to a new country and a new culture this subject has always ignited an interest in me and posed a question as to how most immigrants adapt in this manner to their new surroundings. Additionally and more significantly while I was studying at the University of Pretoria I encountered a few class mates who were immigrants and who also expressed being...
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...works with immigrant children. The reason that our Team decided the agency is because most of our concentrations are going to be with children and families and what better way to get a first-hand look at managing an organization with this type of population. In the next couple of paragraphs, we will be introducing the name of our agency, the mission of the organization, the dates that we selected to interview the different staff at the company and the roles that each member will have. Name and Mission The name of our Agency is called Southwest Keys Program. This organization works with the migrant children from Honduras, Guatemala, and other South America countries. Southwest Key operates 68 programs in 40 cities with over 2,200 employees in 6 states. Southwest Key is nationally accredited by the Council for Accreditation and ranked 5th among the largest Hispanic nonprofits in the country. The agency is a national nonprofit organization providing transformative education, innovative, safe shelters and alternatives to incarceration for over 200,000 youth and families annually. The agencies mission statement is " Opening doors to opportunity so individuals can achieve their dreams." Dates of Schedule Visits Achieving the goal takes a group of experts, that UOP students will be the interviewing. The professional being interview is clinician Karen, case manager Lo Gayle, and YCW Irene Robles. All three play a particular part at Southwest Keys Program helping immigrant children. ...
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...from each other, migrants have a lot of conditions in their work that affects their daily life. They also have some issues as immigrant workers. The issues they face are unsafe conditions, traditional celebration, and spending a lot of money as immigrants. One of the problems that immigrant workers facing today is unsafe conditions such as the immigrant did not have insurance, also the environment at the workplace sometimes is dangerous. Furthermore, if the immigrant worker has bad health, their condition will be worse as the time goes. I believe sometimes there is a concern about health and safety at work for immigrants worker and sometimes are not. As my interview, the immigrant worker said there is no concern about health and safety at work, but he does not have insurance. This particular worker did not have trouble with health and safety at work. As a result, provide insurance to immigrant worker will improve to a better condition in their life....
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... 1 Research Proposal: Examining the Effects of Acculturative Stress in Immigrants Christine Kreutzer University of Central Florida Running Head: RESEARCH PROPOSAL 2 Research Proposal: Examining the Effects of Acculturative Stress in Immigrants Objective: This study proposes to examine if acculturative stress experienced by German and Japanese immigrants in the United States results in any long term effects, specifically in terms of mental illness. Stressors associated with immigration have been found to be harmful, and is especially important to examine because of ever rising rates of immigration in the United States. This proposed study will attempt to show any possible long term effects in terms of mental illness. Literature Review: Acculturation is the process by which a member belonging to one culture must adopt the behavior and beliefs of another cultural group. This process is typically experienced by minority immigrants that have to adapt to a dominant culture. This is known as acculturative stress. Acculturative stress occurs in somatic (or biological), psychological, and social forms (Lecture, 2011). Arbona, Olvera, Rodriguez, Hagan, Linares, and Wiesner (2010) looked at the acculturative stress experienced by documented and undocumented Latino immigrants in the United States. They describe acculturative stress as the mental reaction prompted...
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...Project In 2013, close to 42 million immigrants lived in the United States (US), accounting for 13 percent of the total 316 million U.S. The US is a popular destination attracting approximately 20 percent of the world's migrants. In just 2012, approximately half a million legal immigrants entered in to US. (Migration policy institute, 2015). This huge size of immigrants and diversity is putting huge pressure on the healthcare infrastructure of the nation. Since most of the immigrants originate from poor countries with poorly equipped health care system, their health conditions is relatively poor. They have a variety of health problems, including infectious diseases, musculoskeletal and pain issues, mental health problems, social health issues, and longstanding undiagnosed chronic illnesses(Migration policy institute, 2015). Many of them are unvaccinated. Not only they land to the US unvaccinated and with poorer health, but also they have lower access to US healthcare system putting them at cumulative disadvantage of higher mortality and morbidty....
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...secondary research, see how it affects the specific market like import and export market. I am planning to sit there with my friends and start to obverse them and take note on their action. However, I need to get the permission of the manager in the Chinese store first and then start my primary research. This study is biased because I just sit there and obverse immigrant from other countries. To avoid it, I will try to neglect the immigrants from other countries and also when I compare my observation to the import and export market, I may need to analyse it carefully and interpret it clearly. I am expecting my observation will support my hypothesis which is Chinese immigrant improve U.S. economy from 2008 and 2012. Moreover, I also can do interview as my primary research. To study my research topic, I will use face-to-face interview with my economic instructor, Samuel Le, and I will begin with a question such as the following: “Do you agree or disagree the Chinese immigration to U.S. improve the U.S. economy?” This interview should be recorded and the length of the interview will be 20 minutes. In conjunction with the interview, I will take note on the information which is provided from my economic teacher. In addition, I also like to ask him how to study...
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...political issues today is illegal immigrants from Mexico entering our country (Hannity, 2007). Illegal immigration into the United States is a problem that should be a concern, as it is unfair to both Americans and to the people of this country who legally immigrated (Light, 1993). Immigration in the United States is growing out of control. Each year more and more illegally immigrants filter into our country. Scientific research has proven that we cannot continue to take in all these illegal immigrants (Bean, 1990). The question is whether we should learn to accept illegal immigrants and grant them their wish, or send them back to their home and try to stop illegal immigration once and for all. During the 1980’s, the Unites States received about 8 million immigrants, approximately 800,000 per year (Wilson, 1990). That included both legal admissions and illegal entrants who later received amnesty and legal residence. The volume has increased in the 1990’s, with about 900,000 immigrants arriving each year (Light, 1993). Over the past 30 years, the source countries of these immigrants to the United States have shifted dramatically. In the 1950’s many immigrants migrated here from European countries then in the 1990’s most of the immigrants entering the United States were from Asian and Latin American countries (Bean, 1990). In 2007 it is estimated that 11 to 12 million foreigners live and work in the United States illegally. Most of the immigrants flee their county to...
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