Sentence examples for previous immigrant from inspiring English sources
There were common features in these imigrant groups; they had arrived relatively recently, and Turks with the highest risk were the latest arrivals; culturally, they are more distant from the Swedes than the previous immigrant groups, and the common compatriot marriages indicated that they immigrated as couples or sought a spouse among their own ethnic group.
"They want the fine things that previous immigrant generations came here for.
No previous immigrant group, he warns, has had a historic claim to part of the United States.
Previous immigrant groups typically saw progress with each passing generation, but Hispanic numbers have a habit of stalling or even heading backwards.
They have advantages that previous immigrant waves did not, starting with a national culture less accepting of discrimination than in the past.
The terrorist attack wrought havoc with several industries, including the garment industry, which employs many Chinese people, just as it has been a major employer of previous immigrant populations.
It does not seem to increase unemployment among the native-born, although it may reduce their pay.On balance, argued the report by America's NRC, the people whose wages immigration harms are mainly previous immigrants, for whom new immigrants are close substitutes in the job market.
For example: Overhaul immigration to favor high-skilled newcomers, not relatives of previous immigrants; raise defense spending on new technologies to counter China; increase other federal spending on "basic research". (Government provides most of the money for this research, which is the quest for knowledge for its own sake, and amazingly has cut spending in recent years).
Both Ottaviano and Peri (2012) and Manacorda et al. (2012) conclude that the more recent immigration has the biggest negative effect on the wages of previous immigrants.
Research suggests that previous immigrants suffer more of the adverse wage effects than do natives.
A few years ago, the great political scientist Samuel Huntington asserted that Hispanic immigrants were not succeeding as previous immigrants had.
