Credit to Author: Ramya Ramanathan| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:20:10 +0000
The concept of self requires the existence of “the other.” Sociologists use the concept of “othering” to describe how differences are understood and identities are constructed. People often assume that because someone has a different skin tone or dresses differently or has a different accent, they may not have much in common with them. They […]
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Credit to Author: Anya Zoledziowski| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 16:41:26 +0000
“There’s only a limited amount of action we can take, because if you speak out too much you can’t travel to Iran again.”
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Credit to Author: Rebecca Long| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:51:36 +0000
We spoke to Fievel’s creator Don Bluth about how its themes still resonate in an America with rising anti-Semitism and family separation at the border.
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Credit to Author: Shelby Thevenot| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 22:10:39 +0000
The children of immigrants are helping increase the general level of education in Canada, a new study shows. A Statistics Canada study of the 10-year outcomes of children who were aged 13 to 17 in 2006 found that the children of immigrants were better educated than those with Canadian-born parents. “In Canada, contrary to several […]
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Credit to Author: Shelby Thevenot| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 13:13:45 +0000
Over her lunch break on one of the only Fridays she had to work, Maha Daoud watched the burial of her grandmother in Tunisia from her cell phone in her office at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Daoud had wanted to attend her grandmother’s funeral. She had been a matriarch and a role model for […]
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Credit to Author: Gaby Del Valle| Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 20:17:59 +0000
Families of kids receiving medical care in the U.S. received letters saying they have to leave within 33 days or face deportation and a temporary ban on returning
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Credit to Author: CIC News| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 20:13:40 +0000
Saskatchewan held draws for Express Entry and Occupation In-Demand candidates on July 24, just over a month since the previous draw on June 20. A total of 381 invitations were issued: 277 to candidates with an Expression of Interest (EOI) profile in the province’s Occupation In-Demand sub-category, and another 104 to those with an EOI […]
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 02:11:50 +0000
Thousands of undocumented immigrants were waiting in fear and uncertainty ahead of nationwide raids Sunday that President Donald Trump said would lead to a wave of expulsions.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 02:46:52 +0000
Mexico’s immigration chief resigned Friday and the country’s prisons director was swiftly nominated to replace him.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2019 05:52:36 +0000
The resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen underscored the failure of President Trump to halt uncontrolled immigration.
The post Border ’emergency’: The problem Trump can’t fix appeared first on Inquirer News.
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