Lectures tagged "Immigration"

Sasa Stanisic: How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
Sasa Stanisic
February 23, 2010
01:18:00
Sasa Stanisic, a native of Bosnia who fled to Germany during the war in 1992, discusses his first novel, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone.
Danielle Ofri on Foreign Immigrants and US Health Care
Danielle Ofri
February 3, 2010
Writer and practicing internist Danielle Ofri discusses her newest book, Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients. For 15 years, Dr. Danielle Ofri has cared for patients at Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in the country and a crossroads for the world's cultures.
Memoirs of a First Generation American
Aaron Cohn
August 23, 2009
01:06:08
Atlanta's Juvenile Court Judge Aaron Cohn, accompanied by his daughter, Gail, discusses his book, Memoirs of a First Generation American. The son of Jewish immigrants who fled the Russian pogroms in 1906, Cohn came of age in a Jewish neighborhood in Columbus, GA.
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Chinese in Boston: 1870-1965
Wing kai-To
March 12, 2009
00:50:59
Wing kai-To describes how Chinese in Boston formed a close-knit community that distinguished Boston's Chinatown as one of the oldest and most enduring Chinese neighborhoods on the East Coast.
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One Nation, One Standard
Herman Badillo
April 13, 2008
01:13:45
Herman Badillo discusses his new book One Nation, One Standard: An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups.
President Felipe Calderon on Mexico
Felipe Calderon
February 11, 2008
00:57:10
Mexican president Felipe Calderon speaks about his administration's progress against drugs and organized crime, saying that his government has captured over 22,000 criminals and seized over "one billion personal doses" of drugs over the past year, his first of six in office.
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Paul Watanabe
November 8, 2006
01:09:37
Political scientist Paul Watanabe and his colleagues, Michael Liu and Ramon Borges-Mendez, examine the successes of immigrant entrepreneurs and the roles that entrepreneurs play in their neighborhoods.
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Carola and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco: Educational Pathways of Immigrant Youth
Carola Suarez-Orozco
October 23, 2006
01:21:46
Carola and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco describe and discuss determinants of success of among children in their longitudinal study of immigrant youth in this nation's educational system.