Search

    Start Over Subject Term Blacks Subject Term Canada Subject Term Emigration and immigration

    1. Disability Among Native-born and Foreign-born Blacks in the United States

    <span class="translation_missing" title="translation missing: en.bibleaves.discover_item">Discover Item</span>
    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Elo,Irma T. (Author), Mehta,Neil K. (Author), and Huang,Cheng (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Feb 2011
    Published:
    New York, NY: Springer Science+Business Media
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Demography (Demography)
    Journal Title Details:
    48(1) : 241-265
    Notes:
    Examines differences in disability among eight black subgroups distinguished by place of birth and Hispanic ethnicity. We found that all foreign-born subgroups reported lower levels of physical activity limitations and personal care limitations than native-born blacks. Immigrants from Africa reported lowest levels of disability, followed by non-Hispanic immigrants from the Caribbean.

    2. The new African diaspora

    <span class="translation_missing" title="translation missing: en.bibleaves.discover_item">Discover Item</span>
    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Okpewho,Isidore (Editor) and Nzegwu,Nkiru (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Published:
    Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    531 p., Traces the immigrants' progress from expatriation to arrival and covers the successes as well as problems they have encountered as they establish their lives in a new country. Includes Georges E. Fouron's "I, too, want to be a big man" : the making of a Haitian "boat people"; John A. Arthur's "Immigrants and the American system of justice: perspectives of African and Caribbean Blacks"; and Perry Mars' "The Guyana diaspora and homeland conflict resolution."