Sentence examples for emigrant experience from inspiring English sources

Troyat's family settled in Paris after having fled from Russia during the Revolution, and although he wrote exclusively in French, many of his epic novel cycles, shorter novels, and biographies dealt with Russian history and with the emigrant experience.

A horrifyingly bleak story that scrutinises both the power and constraints of pragmatism – Yilan's determination that her husband must be enabled to father more children, Fusang's chilling reassurance that the bereaved mother can forget her daughter as Fusang has forgotten her son – its depiction of emigrant experience also allows it to function as an emblem of estrangement and miscommunication.

Only Pavel, a poet, has stayed behind in their homeland, and his evolving feelings for them – and they for him – are woven through an evocative study of the emigrant experience.

Tickets to the afternoon celebration cost 120 Danish krone, but the fee also covers a morning open air church service, a festival for families and admission to the Lincoln Log Cabin, a cedar log cabin within the park that serves as a museum for the history of the Danish emigrant experience.   .

In my survey, 90% of the entrepreneurs who were first-generation emigrants had experienced war; 40% had gone through a political disaster like the Cultural Revolution; 32% had lost a home; and 28% had weathered economic disasters that resulted in significant loss of wealth.

A high 85 % of emigrants discussed experiences concerning issues such as support for institutions, civic responsibility, respect for the rule of law, and respect for individual human rights with their families in Mexico.

Finally, the information that emigrants communicate to their families abroad arguably depends on where the emigrants settle down, their pre-departure characteristics, and obviously on their experience as emigrants (Levitt & Lamba-Nieves, 2011: 3).

Irish theatre is full of plays about emigrants who mythologise their experience abroad for the family back home.

We also explore potential causal mechanisms that link the migration experience to emigrants' political engagement with their country of origin.

"My own grandfather, who was an emigrant 60 years ago, had a similar experience, but the problem is that he didn't know English back then...so that's how I started it," he said.

Topics include pre-Famine standards of living, landlord bankruptcy, disease during the Famine, the utility of [End Page 114] Irish famine scholarship for understanding of present-day famines, and studies of Dublin during the Famine and of the experience of Famine emigrants in New York.