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Young Adult Well-Being & immigration and assimilation

Below are the best resources we could find on Young Adult Well-Being and immigration and assimilation.

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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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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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Why I See Myself at an HBCU

While visiting historically Black campuses, I began to reimagine what my college experience could be.

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From Migrant Farmer to Future Teacher

If you go by statistics, Raquel Pérez wasn’t supposed to be a success story. She wasn’t supposed to be an educational inspiration. Raquel is a migrant farmworker from one of the poorest regions in the country. She never experienced a complete school year in one state.

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America Calling: A Foreign Student in a Country of Possibility

Growing up in middle-class India, Rajika Bhandari has seen generations of her family look westward, where an American education means status and success. But she resists the lure of America because those who left never return—they all become flies trapped in honey in a land of opportunity.

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College Students with Immigrant Parents Are too Often Overlooked

Children of immigrants to the United States that attend university here have unique experiences of their own, and face many of the same obstacles first-generation college students face. Yet, they are often overlooked in discussions of marginalized groups on campus.

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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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This Is One Way to Dance: Essays (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Ser.)

In the linked essays that make up her debut collection, This Is One Way to Dance, Sejal Shah explores culture, language, family, and place.

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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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7 Thoughts on Being First-Gen, Low-Income at Harvard

SUBTITULOS EN ESPAÑOL DISPONIBLES Quarantine has given me the energy and time to produce this personal video diary about the experiences I've had at Harvard as a first-gen, low-income college student.

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