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Dunlop, Ted – Child & Youth Services, 2011
In this article, the author talks about the growing pattern of migration experiences for professional people and the impact these have on the well-being of the family as a whole and individual family members who reside outside their home countries for prescribed periods of time. It is easy to argue that the experiences of such families are far…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migration Patterns, Professional Personnel, Foreign Nationals
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Guo, Shibao – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2010
This commentary article focuses on the theme of "migration and communities." It raises a number of important concerns inherent in the report. The report mistakenly adopts the "sameness" approach, thus negating Britain's unprecedented super-diversity that is the result of increasing migration. It wrongly assumes that all migrants are the same and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migration, Migrants, Differences
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Boswell, Thomas D. – Journal of Geography, 1984
To illustrate how various groups of Spanish-Americans differ from one another, the migration histories and the distributional characteristics of the Cuban and Puerto Rican populations living in the United States are compared. (RM)
Descriptors: Cubans, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences, Demography
Mamak, Alexander; Luce, Pat – 1982
This report provides the Pacific American perspective on the current problems and future prospects of Asian and Pacific American relations in the context of Federal assistance. The report is divided into three parts. The first emphasizes the long history of contact between Asians and Pacific Islanders in the Pacific. This history, it is argued,…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Cultural Differences, Ethnic Relations, Federal Aid
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Gray, Maryann Jacobi; And Others – Change, 1996
The population of immigrants to the United States is both growing and changing, and entering an economy in transition. A recent study focused on their impact on access to higher education and on the institutions themselves, including efficiency of operation and campus diversity. Unresolved issues include need for English language skills, student…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Administration, College Environment, Cultural Differences