Sentence examples for immigrant peers from inspiring English sources

My Family Divided gives young adults and teens a powerful glimpse into what their immigrant peers are up against ― a fight against a broken immigration system and a government set on destroying families via deportation.

Gould et al. (2009) exploit the sizable increase in immigration from the former Soviet Union to Israel to study the effects of immigrant peers on completing the high-school matriculation exam and attending college.

Neither Love nor any of her immigrant peers have fully pulled their communities into the Republican fold.

Several papers study the effect of immigrant peers in Europe3.

To his regret, Arif has seen too many of his immigrant peers drop out.

3We refer to this literature as immigrant peers because the native language varies across countries.

Another paper that finds no evidence of immigrant peer effects is Geay et al. (2013).

Also, see Cortes (2006) who considers immigrant peer effects on immigrants in Miami and San Diego noting no significant effects.

Another indirect way of estimating immigrant peer effects is by focusing on the subset of immigrant students with LE proficiency.

With respect to the US context, there are also a number of papers investigating immigrant peer effects within a state.

For example, Conger (2015), using administrative data from Florida, finds no immigrant peer effects on high school achievement of natives and other immigrant students.8.8