The South Asian community is the largest and one of the fastest growing minority groups in Canada, according to the 2006 census. These immigrants bring to Canada talents and skills that can promote Canada's economy and cultural diversity, but they also bring lifestyle habits that may lead to serious health issues. Chewing areca nut and betel quid (paan, with and without tobacco) is a known risk...

India’s Northeast has long been risen by protracted armed conflicts for secession and movements other forms of autonomy. Northeast, the confederation eight states (i.e, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim Tripura) is home to around 200 indigenous communities. All these communities struggle recognition Indian government have their own respective identity. This...

The object of this study is to explore the relationship between 'home' and decline ethnic identity in female characters Bharati Mukherjee's collection short stories Darkness (1985). This paper argues that while it generally accepted diaspora entails a questioning sense belonging (Kennedy, 2014: 12), for Mukherjee, "the price immigrant willingly pays, exile avoids, trauma self-transformation" ("...

This article addresses the possible existence of an immigrant paradox in a sample of immigrant adolescents attending vocational schools in the Netherlands. An immigrant paradox is the finding that first generation immigrants show a more positive pattern of adaptation than nationals despite poorer economic conditions. Second generation immigrants regress to the nationals in terms of adaptation. ...

The changing demographic profile of populations in the United States creates dilemmas and challenges for social work practitioners to provide culturally appropriate mental health services. Previous research on mental health of ethnic minorities suggests that acculturative stress and differential migration experiences account for symptoms of depression, a major public health issue among Asian In...

We report the isolation of a novel agent of subcutaneous mycosis from a 45-year-old Indian male immigrant in the United States. Phylogenetic analysis of partial small ribosomal subunit and large ribosomal subunit, internal transcribed spacer, partial translation elongation factor (TEF1), and RNA polymerase second largest subunit (rPB2) loci revealed that the strain was identical to another isol...

This policy statement, which recognizes the large changes in immigrant status since publication of the 2005 statement "Providing Care for Immigrant, Homeless, and Migrant Children," focuses on strategies to support the health of immigrant children, infants, adolescents, and young adults. Homeless children will be addressed in a forthcoming separate statement ("Providing Care for Children and Ad...

Increasing immigration and school ethnic segregation have raised concerns about the social integration of minority students. We examined the role of immigrant status in social exclusion and the moderating effect of classroom immigrant density among Swedish 14-15-year olds (n = 4795, 51 % females), extending conventional models of exclusion by studying multiple outcomes: victimization, isolation...

BACKGROUND There are no available data concerning the incidence and the clinical pattern of coeliac disease in immigrant children coming to Italy from developing countries. AIMS To evaluate the epidemiological and clinical features of coeliac immigrant children coming to Italy. PATIENTS AND METHODS Hospital records of 1917 children diagnosed in 22 Italian Centres from 1999 to 2001 as having...

Much of the research analyzing immigrant participation in welfare programs investigates the extent to which immigrants enroll in cash benefit programs, with little attention being paid to the trends and determinants of immigrant participation in other programs. This paper uses data drawn from the decennial Censuses, the Survey of Income and Program Participation, and the Current Population Surv...