News tagged with immigrant communities
Soon for sale? Ethnic veggies like maxixe and shiso
Komatsuna. Shiso. Winged beans. Maxixe. They're not your garden-variety vegetables.
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Research examines a growing immigrant population's self employment in the US
For a growing immigrant community in the United States, setting up shop means blending tools of the trade from home with discoveries made in the new country, and there's a strategy that's threading through an array of small ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Supreme Court to hear 'one of most important church-state cases in decades'
As the U.S. Supreme Court opens its October 2011 term, there is intense focus on several high-profile cases and questions the justices are likely to tackle later, including those involving affirmative action, health-care ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Europol says internet main tool for organised crime
The Internet has become a major tool in European organised crime, which uses it for drugs and human trafficking and money laundering as well as cybercrime, Europol's top official said Wednesday.
May 04, 2011 |
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Hostile environments encourage political action in immigrant communities
A new study from North Carolina State University finds that anti-immigrant practices – such as anti-immigrant legislation or protests – are likely to backfire, and spur increased political action from immigrant ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 02, 2010 |
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Health fair referrals shown to help improve blood pressure among low-income immigrants
UCLA researchers sought to compare how two different approaches to providing follow-up care to health fair participants impacted blood-pressure control.
Apr 13, 2010 |
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Improving university-community research partnerships
Researchers from Tufts University and their community-based colleagues have identified several strategies to improve community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships. A study published in a supplement to the November ...
Nov 09, 2009 |
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New immigrants more likely to be homeless due to economic factors rather than health issues
New immigrants are more likely to cite economic and housing factors as barriers that keep them homeless compared with native-born individuals, according to a new study on the health of homeless immigrants led by St. Michael's ...
Oct 19, 2009 |
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