Permanent residency

Houston Community College’s governing board approved a resolution on Thursday reaffirming its support of the Texas Dream Act. The vote comes at the beginning of the Texas legislative session where bills have been introduced to repeal the law that gives certain undocumented students in-state tuition rates. While the repeal bills currently introduced are echoes of the unsuccessful 2015 repeal attempts, the rhetoric of President Donald Trump raises new concerns that repeal efforts may gain…

it is a third world country or a first world country, unfortunately all countries are having to deal with homelessness. Both adult and children are having to live with this terrible way of life. When somebody is homeless they do not have a permanent residency, they unfortunately do not have a safe place or somewhere to call home. People have to turn to being homeless for an assortment of reasons, some can become homeless due to an unfortunate tragic event such as house fire, disease and death…

vulnerable to discrimination and stigmatization, and also might become stressed by finding work, housing, schools for their children, and health care without the protections and benefits afforded by hukou registration” (Gong, 846). In China, a permanent residency system designates citizens as either non-agricultural or agricultural depending on their residential location. While non-agricultural citizens are offered a plethora of benefits, such as access to health care, education for their…

1999 was the year that changed my life trajectory. The year was filled with dire warnings for Y2k but to me, it was the year that I found the name of my passion. I have questioned, changed, given up on this passion several times during the last 18 years but I am thankful that I have been pulled back on course no matter my own and life’s’ shenanigans. 1999 I started what would be called my freshman college year in Trinidad and Tobago. Having finished my high school with somewhat unremarkable…

individuals or families lose their place of residency given the fact that many individuals struggling with buying or renting a house are typically in poverty and lack a well-paying job…

newcomers and promoting “self-deportation” these modification go into effect, deferred action will extend to approximately 300,000 additional immigrants youth as well as the roughly four million undocumented parents of America citizens and legal permanent residents, making nearly half of America’s unauthorized population eligible for work authorization and lawful presence. President Obama’s unabashed use of executive power in implementing DACA provoked divided commentary from the start.…

here. In his article he says, “And they have essentially written U.S. immigration law for a very long time. The primary type of immigration is for ‘family reunification.’ That means a U.S. citizen can sponsor their immediate relatives for permanent residency and then citizenship. This sounds like a perfectly reasonable basis on which to base an immigration policy. But…

During the 21st century during the election of 2016 the number of application for citizenship has increased, is this due to the candidates we will be voting for or for the benefits of being a citizen. With the increase of the applications for citizenship we see that many residence in the United States have taken in consideration what is being said about their ethnicity, social status, culture and religion and others are taking in consideration their benefits of being able to get disability,…

As, Parrenas (2001) exceptional that "Filipino worker are one of the biggest inflows of female laborers around the world with two third of women engaged in domestic work in other countries”. Most of the Filipino “workers enter into nursing homes due to job availability and social networks (Novek, 2013)”. Moreover, “employers choose their care worker because they are loyal and enjoy working with older people. Care workers enter or stay because of cash, including wages, adoration, and duty to…

Social Supports and Networks In communities with low economic status, such as Rock Bay, resources are required (Stamler & Yiu, 2015). Some resources that would benefit Rock Bay are low-income housing, health clinics and improving food access. Rock Bay has been stereotyped as an undesirable neighborhood. This does not promote social inclusion that residents need to thrive and participate in the community (Stamler & Yiu, 2015). Rock Bay has some services and organizations that are combating this…