immigrant family
collocation in Englishmeaningsofimmigrantandfamily
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immigrant
noun[C]
uk/ˈɪm.ɪ.ɡrənt/us/ˈɪm.ə.ɡrənt/
a person who has come to a different country in order to live ...
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family
noun
uk/ˈfæm.əl.i/us/ˈfæm.əl.i/
a group of people who are related to each other, such as a mother, a father, and ...
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(Definition ofimmigrantandfamilyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofimmigrant family
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The work of community officers has not followed through the relationship between the ordinary constable and the ordinaryimmigrantfamily.
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Then the concession was promised for the children of immigrants only: we have, in fact, extended it to benefit the whole of theimmigrantfamily.
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The general difficulty is, first, because of financial limits and, secondly, because it is felt that animmigrantfamilymay return to its country of origin in the future.
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To set up animmigrantfamilyfrom outside these islands with a house, full social services, schools, and so on, represents an expenditure of about £3,000 worth of capital.
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She developed a program to have volunteers visit homes and assess the extent of need for eachimmigrantfamily.
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For dancers of animmigrantfamily, the dancer was often the financial support of the family.
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Immigrant families receive considerable weight here with six separate entries.
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The historic house museum illustrates the domestic lives of thisimmigrantfamily, interpreting the home lives of the thousands who toiled in the shadow of the mill.
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Tightening immigration laws such as these, as well as notions of zero immigration, reflected national views that arose within the discussion aroundimmigrantfamilyreunification and national identity.
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Such situations are more common than one might perhaps suspect when we consider immigrant families.
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A 1996 study found that over a lifetime a typicalimmigrantfamilywill pay some forty thousand dollars more to the treasury than they will consume in services.
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More research is needed to develop understanding of the interplay of these factors among immigrant families.
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Kinkeeping and caregiving : contributions of older people in immigrant families.
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The interplay between filial responsibilities and formal assistance might be of special importance for immigrant families and should be taken into account by policymakers and family sociology scholars alike.
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This multi-faceted community, however, was by the 1940s rapidly eroding: older-established immigrant families moved out, and the residue was dispossessed in the 1950s by 'urban renewal'.
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