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Why Are Immigrants More Entrepreneurial?

By Peter Vandor, Nikolaus Franke — 2016

What do Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post), Dietrich Mateschitz (Red Bull), Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX), and Sergey Brin (Google) have in common? Apart from their success as entrepreneurs, they all share one distinct characteristic: extensive cross-cultural experience.

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First-Generation Graduates Read Letters from Their Parents

UC Riverside has a long history of supporting first-generation students. At 58%, first-generation students make up more than half the student population at UCR. We connected with 11 of our first-generation graduates to see what being the first in their family to graduate meant to them.

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2019
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An Immigrant Student in America: Finding a College

Ayat Husseini is standing on the threshold of a new world: college. She is facing a challenge that many immigrant students across the United States share.

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2015
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Refugee High: Coming of Age in America

Lit Hub's Most Anticipated of 2021 A year in the life of a Chicago high school that has one of the highest proportions of refugees of any school in the nation “A wondrous tapestry of stories, of young people looking for a home.

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Elly Fishman
2025
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Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society

One child in five in America is the child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Very few will return to the country they barely remember.

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Carola Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Irina Todorova
2010
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Americanah

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun—the story of two Nigerians making their way in the U.S.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2025
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A Cuban Refugee’s Journey to the American Dream: The Power of Education

In February 1962, three years into Fidel Castro’s rule of their Cuban homeland, the González family―an auto mechanic, his wife, and two young children―landed in Miami with a few personal possessions and two bottles of Cuban rum.

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Gerardo M. Gonzalez
2018
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Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez: What's Missing from the American Immigrant Narrative | TED

Recounting her story of finding opportunity and stability in the US, Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez examines the flaws in narratives that simplify and idealize the immigrant experience -- and shares hard-earned wisdom on the best way to help those around us.

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2020
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New Immigrants Share Their Stories

The students of Newcomers High School in Long Island City, which specializes in teaching recent immigrants, and those of St. Luke's, a private middle school in Manhattan, have come together to dialogue about difference and combat bias.

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2011
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Undocumented in America: Viviana’s Story

This film is an intimate portrayal of what it’s like to be an undocumented immigrant in the shadow of the sanctuary city debate happening around the country.

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2018
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The Immigrant Mindset - Why Indians Drive Cabs & Own Convenience Stores

The stereotype is that Indian immigrants come to America, where they end up driving cabs and owning motels or convenience stores. Jaspreet Singh explains why he thinks this happens so often, including the immigrant mindset and what Indian immigrants commonly come to America to accomplish.

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2018
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