But while Sydney was one of the great melting pots of the world, which Carr acknowledged – "37% of the population of Sydney was born overseas, we celebrate it" – he said even immigrants were asking whether Australia could achieve the same benefits from migration at a less dramatic pace.
The year was 1883 when Emma Lazarus, a young, high society New York poet and the descendant of Jewish immigrants, was asked for a favor.
First, immigrants are asked whether or not they plan to return to their home country, which I use to construct a dummy variable for return intention.
It should be no surprise to the Bush administration that non-Mexican illegal immigrants are asking for equal consideration for amnesty (front page, July 26).
Immigration cases have become more complex, especially asylum cases, where immigrants are asking to remain in the United States because they claim to fear life-threatening violence if they return home.
A design noticeably different from existing licenses will not cause any more discrimination than what occurs now when an illegal immigrant is asked to present a license and has none to present.
We restrict our analysis to first-generation immigrants as we do not wish to pool first- and second-generation immigrants together and the sample of second-generation immigrants who were asked about our variables of interest is unfortunately too small for separate analysis.
In Northern Greece on the other hand, because the immigrants who were asked to fill the questionnaire were less than the immigrants of all other regions, it is more likely that most of the responders understood better the Greek language and the medical terms, upgrading in this way the response rate of this region.
As part of their garden studies, students in the schools, which serve many immigrant families, were asked to bring in their families' favorite beans to plant.
Cohen, who holds appointments at the Graduate School of Education and in psychology, noted one study in which poor immigrant children were asked to affirm their deeply held values, which led to improved school outcomes years later and a higher likelihood of being on track for college.
