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Immigrants and dementia: Literature update

Geriatric Nursing, 2021
The population of immigrants in the U.S. is increasing with older immigrants experiencing age-related decline more rapidly than the U.S.-born white population. Immigrants have a higher prevalence and risk of dementia, including undiagnosed dementia. Older immigrants face unique obstacles in terms of their cognitive health, including language barriers ...
Mariya Kovaleva, Abigail Jones, Cathy A. Maxwell   +2 more
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Immigrant entrepreneurship and strategy: a systematic literature review

, 2020
This paper examines developments in the research on immigrant entrepreneurship and strategy based on a systematic literature review of the Web of Science and Scopus databases.
R. Malerba, J. Ferreira
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Understanding why immigrant children underperform: evidence from Italian compulsory education

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2021
We aim to investigate the extent to which children of immigrants achieve lower levels of academic proficiency in reading and mathematics compared to native students in compulsory education in Italy.
M. Triventi, Eleonora Vlach, Elisa Pini
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Literature of immigration as a literature of Europe

Journal of European Studies, 2016
Any understanding of European literature that does not include immigrant literature results in an incomplete vision of literature created in Europe. As immigrant writers have sought to find a place for themselves and their writing, the labels attached to that writing have been crucial.
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Connecting the immigrant experience through literature

Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
A 3rd-grade teacher used literature to help her immigrant students grapple with some of the larger issues related to immigration. Through the story of one Latino student, the teacher shares the literature that she used and how one student responded.
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Contemporary American Immigrant Literature

2012
Since the 1965 Hart-Cellar Immigration Act, which abolished the national quota system set in place by the Johnson-Reed Act of 1920, more than 20 million immigrants have entered the United States, half of whom arrived during the 1980s, mostly from countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
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The immigrant experience in Canadian second generation immigrant literature

2012
Kanada ist als multikulturelles Land bekannt, dessen Bevölkerung jährlich durch Immigration wächst. Das Konzept ‚kulturelles Mosaik’ wird oft in Diskussionen über die kanadische Gesellschaft verwendet. Diese Themen werden jedoch meist nur in der Theorie behandelt. Wie ist das wirkliche Leben der Einwanderer in Kanada?
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Immigration Narratives in Young Adult Literature

2010
Although the United States prides itself as a nation of diversity, the country that boasts of its immigrant past also wrestles with much of its immigrant present. While conflicting attitudes about immigration are debated, newcomers—both legal and otherwise—continue to arrive on American soil.
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Law, Literature, and the “Situation” of Immigration

Law, Culture and the Humanities, 2011
In American immigration cases, the courts have simultaneously imagined different kinds of situations in which immigrants are regulated: situations where the plenary power doctrine suspends the ordinary operation of the law and situations where everyday legal norms are operative.
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Immigration and Children’s Literature

2023
Wilma Robles-Melendez, Audrey Henry
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