Colombians in the United States: A Study of Their Well-Being by Cándida Madrigal

“…This study examined the extent to which four factors—acculturation, ethnic identity, self-esteem, and resilience—can explain the well-being of Colombian immigrants in the United States across three waves of immigration (wave 1, from 1945–1964; wave 2, from 1965–1989; and wave 3, from 1990–2008). …”
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Fixed Drug Eruption due to Achiote Dye by Ian Tattersall, Bobby Y. Reddy

“…In this report we describe a case of a FDE in a 12-year-old girl recently immigrated to the United States from Ecuador who had no medication exposure over the course of her illness. …”
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The socio-political activity of K. Tryliovskyi (during 1920-1930 years) by Lesia Boichuk

“…Tryliovskyi was also one of the leading figures of society "Kameniari" in Kolomyia county, actively supported the development of Sich movement among Ukrainian immigrants in the United States and Czechoslovakia. Thus, his social and political activities made a significant impact on the public life of Galicia, contributed to the rise of national and political consciousness of the Ukrainian in the region and abroad.…”
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Grandparent–Grandchild Relationships in Chinese Immigrant Families in Los Angeles: Roles of Acculturation and the Middle Generation by Ling Xu PhD, Iris Chi DSW, Shiyou Wu PhD

“…Despite an increasing number of older Chinese immigrants in the United States and the uniquely differing culture of the United States relative to Chinese culture, few studies focused specifically on Chinese immigrant families in the United States. …”
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Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis 
Outbreak among US-bound Hmong 
Refugees, Thailand, 2005 by John E. Oeltmann, Jay K. Varma, Luis Ortega, Yecai Liu, Thomas O’Rourke, Maria Cano, Theresa A. Harrington, Sean Toney, Warren Jones, Samart Karuchit, Lois Diem, Dhanida Rienthong, Jordan W. Tappero, Kashef Ijaz, Susan A. Maloney

“…In January 2005, tuberculosis (TB), including multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB), was reported among Hmong refugees who were living in or had recently immigrated to the United States from a camp in Thailand. We investigated TB and drug resistance, enhanced TB screenings, and expanded treatment capacity in the camp. …”
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The Criminalization of Immigration and Intellectual Disability in the United States by Lauren A. Ricciardelli, Larry Nackerud, Adam E. Quinn

“…Public attitudes, negative stereotypes, and stigma are essential to cultural narratives about the membership status of people with intellectual disability and people who have immigrated to the United States. With a concern for the exclusion of people from participation in democratic societies, this mixed methods study explores conceptual links between the criminalization of intellectual disability and immigration. …”
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FROM SLOVENIA TO AMERICA – THE FOOTSTEPS THROUGH TIME IN SLOVENIAN WOMEN’S AUTO/BIOGRAPHICAL BOOKS by Mirjam Milharčič-Hladnik

“…The text presents some auto/biographical books, which were written by the Slovenian women immigrants to the United States or their descendants. The books deal with the immigrant experiences of women from the first and the second immigration waves. …”
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Does culture affect divorce decisions? Evidence from European immigrants in the US by Sevilla-Sanz, A, Furtado, D, Marcen, M

“…This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining differences in divorce rates by country of origin of immigrants in the United States. Because immigrants who arrived in the US at a young age are all exposed to a common set of American laws and institutions, we interpret cross-ancestry differences in divorce rates as evidence of the effect of culture. …”

Migrations des personnes hautement qualifiées au Brésil. De l’isolement à l’insertion internationale ? by Luisa Farah Schwartzman, Simon Schwartzman

“…Recently, and for the first time ever, Brazilians have begun to go abroad for different reasons, while the country has begun once more to attract immigrants from the United States, Europe, and other Latin American countries. …”
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Undocumented Immigrants and Policy Advocacy by Tatum Stewart

“…The social work profession is positioned to play a critical role in redefining policies surrounding historically marginalized immigrants in the United States. The creation of the concept of the “undocumented immigrant” reflects an embedded discriminatory aspect of immigration policy, and becomes reinforced in policies that actively dehumanize undocumented immigrants, inhibiting their social integration. …”
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Health Is Power, and Health Is Wealth: Understanding the Motivators and Barriers of African American/Black Male Immigrants With Gastrointestinal Conditions by Daina Potter, Pamela Valera

“…The digestive health of African American/Black male immigrants in the United States has not been previously studied. …”
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Translating immigration in the multicultural and multilingual United States of America by Nael F. M. Hijjo, Rodney C. Jubilado

“…The findings suggest that pragmatic, convention-related, linguistic, and text-specific problems may partially distort the message of the original text, hence contribute to the ambiguity when read by the Arabic-speaking new immigrant to the United States. It is therefore suggested that the Arabic USCIS Guide for New Immigrants needs to be edited by a native professional editor.…”
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More than words : a biography of Daniel Francis Burns by Burns, Matthew R. (Matthew Robert)

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Have the Olympic Games become more migratory? A comparative historical perspective by Joost Jansen, Godfried Engbersen

“…The selected countries have different histories of migration and cover the distinction between ‘nations of immigrants’ (Australia, Canada, United States), ‘countries of immigration’ (France, Great Britain, Netherlands, Sweden), ‘latecomers to immigration’ (Italy, Spain) and, what we coin, ‘former countries of immigration’ (Argentina, Brazil). …”
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Immigration, Incest and Post-Nationality in Krys Lee’s “The Believer” by Owen Jean

“…After her mother murders a delivery boy and is incarcerated in a high-security psychiatric facility, Jenny and her father become dislocated from their life as immigrants to the United States. Eventually, daughter and father take a road trip to visit Jenny’s mother and then drive on to Las Vegas, where their life as immigrants began and where they will now cross the ultimate boundary. …”
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In God's Name: Jewish Religious and Traditional Peace and Human Rights Movements in Israel and in the Occupied Territories by Cristiana Calabrese

“…A few years later, another peace movement called ‘Netivot Shalom’ (‘Paths of Peace’) was founded by Israeli yeshiva students and young new immigrants from the United States. At the end of the 1980s, in the wake of the first Intifada, a small circle of religious and traditional Israeli rabbis committed to the respect of human rights came to the fore and, more recently, a group of Hasidic settlers inspired by the teachings of Rabbi Menahem Froman has created a peace group called ‘Eretz Shalom’ (‘Land of Peace’). …”
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Noury? Nourhan? — talking back to the enlightenment : practicing anti-racist teaching and learning in eighteenth-century British literature (Roundtable) by Nourhan

“…It means “the light of heaven”; my family gave me this name because they found it fitting to my personality. When we immigrated to the United States in 2005, no one besides my family said my name out loud, and when I started my first day of public school in 2008, my third-grade teacher told me, “Your name is really interesting. …”
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Effective Teachers by Beverly A. King Miller

“…Drawing from a grounded qualitative case study, the data used for this article share the responses of Afro-Caribbean females in STEM who have immigrated to the United States from the country of Panama. As Latinas, they are representative of the changing face in the American educational system—bilingual, multicultural, and of African descent. …”
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Feminist practical theology and (un)making structural violence against immigrant women and families by Susanne Johnson

“…The notion of structural evil and sin can proffer insight into the reality of complex webs and entanglements in structural violence that enshrouds the lives and journeys of unauthorized Latino/a immigrants into the United States, and into the role of U.S. citizens in perpetuating such violence. …”
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The Politics Of Fear: Fear Of Migrants As An Instrument Shaping The Political Environment by Mahmut Mete, Bekir Gündoğmuş

“…In this context, the study analyzes the effect of fear on political policy and elections by revealing the historical and current situation of fear of immigrants in the United States, European countries and Türkiye.…”
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