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The immigrant paradox in the United States is an observation that recent immigrants often outperform more established immigrants and non-immigrants on a number of health-, education-, and conduct- or crime-related outcomes, despite the numerous barriers they face to successful social integration.
The integration paradox is a phenomenon observed in many immigrant-receiving societies, where immigrants who are more structurally integrated, particularly those with higher levels of education and socio-economic attainment, tend to perceive more discrimination and distance themselves psychologically from the host society. [68]
The movie, he said, speaks to the “paradox” of the immigrant experience. Though it begins in the year 1947, it's still relevant today.
The term paradox is often used to describe a counter-intuitive result. However, some of these paradoxes qualify to fit into the mainstream viewpoint of a paradox, which is a self-contradictory result gained even while properly applying accepted ways of reasoning.
During the Cold War, a migration paradox arose in which some of the communist states forbade emigration, while the "Free World" would freely accept the defectors. This policy persists for Cubans [2] and the Hmong, who are both allowed particular forms of free immigration to the United States based on their automatic refugee status.
The Hispanic paradox refers to the medical research indicating that Latino immigrants enter the United States with better health, on average, than the average American citizen, but lose this health benefit the longer they reside in the United States. It is important to note that this health paradox affects both male and female populations of ...
Several stories in the Hebrew Bible bear similarity to the Judgment of Solomon and scholars think they allude to it. The most similar story is that of the two cannibal mothers in 2 Kings 6:24–33, which forms part of the Elisha cycle. The background is a famine in Samaria, caused by a siege on the city. As the king passes through the city, a ...
Infini Rien: Pascal's Wager and the Human Paradox. The Journal of the History of Philosophy Monograph Series. Southern Illinois University Press. Cargile, James (1992). "Pascal's Wager". In Geivett, R. Douglas; Sweetman, Brendan (eds.). Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology. Oxford University Press. pp. 283– 289. ISBN 9780195073249.