The phrase "portion of immigrants" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific segment or group within the larger population of immigrants.
Example: "A significant portion of immigrants in the city come from Latin America."
Alternatives: "segment of immigrants" or "group of immigrants."
When examining the mechanism of such disadvantage, previous research has pointed to the factor of lower human capital as a portion of immigrants completed their education before immigration.
There was a slight rise in the portion of immigrants without a high school education, though the report noted that it was unclear whether this was because of low-skilled immigrants already in the United States, or because of less educated ones arriving.
Figure 6 Pro portion of immigrants who introduce their relatives or friends to China.
Wadhwa says the Duke project underscores the point that a significant portion of immigrants in the U.S. are highly educated, fueling a tech boom, leading innovation and creating jobs.
Although mismatches explain a sizable portion of immigrants' initial wage disparity, the results do not point to systemic problems of highly educated immigrants working in low paying unrelated jobs.
This implies that low-skilled immigrants not only directly affect women's fertility and labor supply decisions, but a substantial portion of immigrants' influence operates by making it less important for women to decrease labor force participation in response to additional births which are unrelated immigration.
Sharaf (2013) finds that the quality of foreign education is linked to the incidence of over-education and can explain a significant portion of immigrant-native wage gaps in Canada.
These are the same states that draw the largest portion of immigrant physicians generally.
Critics of WNYE's current ethnic programming point to the lack of programs in Chinese, Hindi, Korean and Japanese, so it does not reach those portions of immigrant New York (WNYE television has a Chinese and Japanese show).
But for a good portion of the immigrants -- many Hispanic, but others Arabic or Filipino -- work means securing day labor in construction and snow removal, and nights are spent crowded with seven or eight others in a small apartment.
Today about 400,000 Chinese migrants live in Russia, making up only a tiny portion of all immigrants in the country, most of whom come from former Soviet states in Central Asia.
