Do Employer-Sponsored Immigrants Fare Better in Labor Markets Than Family-Sponsored Immigrants? by Julia Gelatt

“…It finds that most legal, permanent immigrants to the United States show high employment rates relative to the overall U.S. population after several years in the country, but that employment-sponsored immigrants and their spouses bring the highest education and English proficiency and work in the most highly skilled occupations both initially and over time.…”
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Migración y ecoturismo en la Reserva de la Biosfera de Los Tuxtlas (México) by Ángeles Piñar Álvarez, Martha Elena Nava Tablada, Diana Karina Viñas Oliva

“…Included within park boundaries are municipalities characterized by a high poverty rate and whose residents, due to restrictions placed on their traditional farming activities, have had to immigrate to the United States. At the same time, the biosphere reserve’s natural wealth has inspired environmentally friendly ecotourism initiatives. …”
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Chicana Memoir and the DREAMer Generation: Reyna Grande’s The Distance Between Us as Neo-colonial Critique and Feminist Testimonio by Marion Rohrleitner

“…Reyna Grande’s 2012 memoir The Distance Between Us exemplifies the ongoing influence of the Latin American testimonio on contemporary life writing by immigrants to the United States from the Southern hemisphere, in order to effect social change. …”
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Loss of Culture, Loss of Language: An Afghan-American Community by Farid Saydee

“…In this quantitative study, the researcher argues that when it comes to the decline of their heritage language and the inexorable shift towards mainstream culture, Afghan families experience similar forces of assimilation as other immigrants in the United States. The 27 Afghan parents from different households who participated in the study attribute the decline of their heritage language to Afghan-American children becoming accustomed to speaking English at home and in public, and wanting to fit into the mainstream culture. …”
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The Quest for Whiteness in Willa Cather’s "My Ántonia" (1918) and Henry Roth’s "Call It Sleep" (1934) by Mireia Vives Martínez

“… The aim of this paper is to trace the assimilation process of European immigrants to the United States at the turn of the century in Willa Cather’s My Antonia (1918) and Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep (1934). …”
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Trieste and Louis Adamic’s Transnational Identities by John Paul Enyeart

“…By examining Slovene immigrant to the United States and world-renowned author Louis Adamic’s effort to mediate between his Yugoslav and American identities, this article helps us to think what having a transnational identity means. …”
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The Work of Expert Testimony: Central Americans, Human Rights Defenders, and Immigration Courts by Allan F. Burns

“…Expert testimony today includes helping in the defense of people fleeing intimate partner violence, persecution based on sexual orientation, threats and violence by gangs, and those whose political opinions put them at risk. Immigrants in the United States face institutional culture shock, structural violence, and criminalization of their lives. …”
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Violent victimization among immigrants: Using the National Violent Death Reporting System to examine foreign-born homicide victimization in the United States by Kayla R. Freemon, Melissa A. Gutierrez, Jessica Huff, Hyunjung Cheon, David Choate, Taylor Cox, Charles M. Katz

“…With the growing number of immigrants in the United States, policy and prevention efforts should be guided by research.…”
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Peace in Guatemala and Immigrant Health in the United States by Jeremy C. Green, Eric Adjei Boakye, Amanda Schoening, Michael G. Vaughn

“…Conclusions: The peace agreement in Guatemala was associated with statistically significant improvements in the health status of Guatemalan immigrants to the United States.…”
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Translanguaging Practices of a Multiethnic and Multilingual Deaf Family in a Raciolinguistic World and Beyond by Anna Lim

“…I discuss how language use throughout my childhood has impacted my experiences with languaging after immigrating to the United States as an adult. Interspersed in this personal narrative are traipses into historical and sociological observations about the Filipino community’s view of the deaf identity and how deaf Filipinos have been and are still being regarded. …”
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The Power of the Spoken Word in Defining Religion and Thought: A Case Study by Hilary Watt

“…This essay explores the relationship between religion and language through a literature review of animist scholarship and, in particular, a case study of the animist worldview of Hmong immigrants to the United States. An analysis of the existing literature reveals how the Hmong worldview (which has remained remarkably intact despite widely dispersed settlements) both informs and is informed by the Hmong language. …”
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MIGRATION A MAJOR PROBLEM FOR EUROPEAN UNION MEMBERS AND NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES by Virginia COJOCARU, Alexandru GRIBINCEA

“…In absolute terms, the number of immigrants in Еurope is approximately equal to the number of immigrants in the United States. Europe has become one of the main destinations on the world map. …”
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Double lockdown: the effects of digital exclusion on undocumented immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic by Bastick, Z, Mallet-Garcia, M

“…We conducted 32 interviews with undocumented Latino immigrants in the United States to examine how digital technologies mediated their experiences of the pandemic. …”

Making the Case for Real Diversity: Redefining Underrepresented Minority Students in Public Universities by B. Runi Mukherji, Lorenz S. Neuwirth, Laura Limonic

“…Immigration to the United States has been a major catalyst for population growth and is the significant factor in the changing racial/ethnic composition of our population. …”
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Micro-level Interactions and Health Stratification: Abuses Committed against Deported Mexican Immigrants by Kyle E. Waldman

“…Given the magnitude of the deportation regime enacted against Mexican immigrants in the United States, thousands of immigrants may return to Mexico at an elevated risk for relatively poorer health. …”
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Should hut lung be called domestically acquired particulate lung disease or domestically acquired pneumoconiosis? by Adel Asaad, Kimberley Cao, Mark Rumbak

“…In this report, we describe an illustrative case of domestically acquired particulate lung disease (DAPLD) or “hut lung” in a 65-year-old Sudanese male who immigrated to the United States in 1986. He presented with symptoms of chronic productive cough and dyspnea. …”
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CROSSING BORDERS: STORIES OF TRANSNATIONALS BECOMING ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS IN MEXICO by Irasema Mora Pablo, M. Martha Lengeling, Nora Margarita Basurto Santos

“…These participants acquired English as children of Mexican immigrants in the United States. Using a narrative approach, findings depict how immigrant students shaped their identities through ambivalent feelings towards both countries and how this identity construction shaped their interest in becoming English teachers or rejecting the language to the point that they forgot the language they had learned in the United States. …”
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A Place to Call Home: Defining the Legal Significance of the Sanctuary Campus Movement by Natasha Newman

“…The movement has given rise to questions about the protections available to undocumented immigrants in the United States, with specific emphasis placed on the vulnerability of undocumented students. …”
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Comparing Disease Burden of Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 between Hmong and other Ethnic Groups by Lue Lao et al.

“…The Hmong, an ethnic group in Laos, immigrated to the United States at the end of the Vietnam War. …”
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The Pedagogy of Waiting: A Reorientation to Time with Artists with Disabilities and Creative Growth Art Center by Min Gu

“…Among the artists who informed the pedagogy of waiting is Latefa Noorzai, a native Farsi speaker and immigrant to the United States. The temporalities demonstrated through Latefa’s art practice and the pedagogical practice at Creative Growth challenge the normative temporalities in art learning and art making. …”
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