PPT-County Interactions with Immigrants

Prof Andy Ayers Director of the Government Law Center Albany Law School OUTLINE Immigration statuses 2 Sanctuary decisions 3 Noncitizens eligibility for licenses and benefits 4 Green Light Law. Individuals in need of treatment for substance use disorders often experience resistance to the idea of using medication as part of their treatment and recovery plan Some individuals confuse the use of prescribed medication as another form of substa Policies. Matthew Wright. American University. mwright@american.edu. Irene . Bloemraad. University of California, Berkeley. bloemr@berkeley.edu. Prepared for . IMR 50. th. Anniversary Symposium. Tuesday, September 30, . in Spain. 1) Beatriz Arce Álvarez . 2) Alberto Díez Gutiérrez. 3) Oscar Bayón González. Introduction. In Spain the immigration situation has evolved. It can be said that without major tensions have grown from an initial objective of arrival to another of stay. In 2007, 81% of foreign immigrants were raised to follow in our country (INE 2007). The onset of the crisis has changed the landscape by placing immigrants as a very vulnerable socially. As can be seen, unemployment rate affects differently: 12.56% to 21.26% of Spanish for foreigners. This puts things more difficult for effective integration policies, immediate consequences and the difficulties for the renewal of licenses, or unaffordable mortgages are obvious to outsiders.. Europeans. 1870-1920. 20,000,000 Europeans came to America. Came to New York. Reasons for coming to America:. Famine. Land Shortages. Religious and Political persecution. Birds of passage- . planned to come to America to make some money and then return to their homelands.. I. IMMIGRANTS AND URBAN CHALLENGES. Mid-1800’s . L. arge . numbers of immigrants crossed the Atlantic ocean . T. o . begin new lives in America.. Between 1840 – 1860 in the U. S.. More . than 4 million immigrants . Push factors . versus . pull factors. Forced military service, rigid social/economic systems, religious persecution, . famine. Lots of available jobs in the USA, democracy, fluid social/economic structures. Immigration to the United States increased dramatically between 1840-1860. The largest group of immigrants to the United States at that time were from Ireland. Between 1846 and 1860, more than 1.5 million Irish immigrants came to the US because of a potato blight that destroyed most of the potato crops in the 1840s. A famine, an extreme shortage of food, struck Ireland. More than 1 million people died.. and . Urban Life. Images from Google Images. http://images.google.com/images. Video clip. Immigrants coming to America. New Wave of Immigrants. Mid 1800s to early 1900s- A flood of Immigrants to the U.S.. municipalities. Occupational restructuring challenges competencies-project. 31 August 2017. Erling Solheim. Helsinki City. Background - Economic integration. The economic integration of immigrants = the immigrant and his or her household are able to support him- or herself economically through employment. . True: . Of the 175 million migrants in the world, the U.S. admitted 1,063,732 documented immigrants in 2002. Undocumented immigration adds approximately 350,000 people per year by INS estimates. . One-half of the persons who immigrated to Canada between 1986 and 2001 and who were living in Canada in 2001 were born in Asia. . Immigrants . from East Asia—Hong Kong, China, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan—were the most numerous, accounting for over one quarter of immigrants who landed during 1996-2001.. The Lure of America. Old Immigrants. - mostly Protestant from northwestern Europe . Irish, British, German, French. Arriving between 1800-1880. New Immigrants. - mostly south and eastern Europe. Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese. Resilient immigrants, disempowered society? a look into immigrants’ acculturation experiences Angela Fedi *, Terri Mannarini **, & Alessia Rochira ** *University of Turin, **University of Salento 1 Immigrants from all over the world call Johnson County home, including non - citizens and naturalized citizens. Almost 48,000 Johnson county res idents, or 8% of Johnson County’s current populat