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Diana fund to help asylum seekers, refugees in Britain

The Diana Memorial Fund plans to mark the tenth death anniversary of the Princess of Wales by spending ten million pounds of its funds on a campaign to promote the rights of refugees and asylum seekers in the United Kingdom.

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Are Latinos becoming white?

A new study on Latino immigrants finds that, in contrast to past generations of European immigrants, a significant share of second-and-third-generation Latino-Americans identify with a Latino racial category.

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Work-family stress studied among immigrant Latinos

A new study that examined the work-family experiences of recent Latino immigrants working in low-wage, nonprofessional jobs, found that they reported infrequent work-family conflict, according to lead author Joseph G. Grzywacz, Ph.D., of Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

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Up to 10 percent of human genome may have changed

A Cornell study of genome sequences in African-Americans, European-Americans and Chinese suggests that natural selection has caused as much as 10 percent of the human genome to change in some populations in the last 15,000 to 100,000 years, when people began migrating from Africa.

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Chinese and White immigrants highest homeowners

In both Canada and the U.S., Chinese and White immigrants have the highest adjusted homeownership rates of all groups, at times even exceeding comparably positioned native-born households, according to a University of Alberta sociologist who compared rates by skin colour and across countries.

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US Launches Website for New Immigrants

The U.S. government has launched a new website designed to help new immigrants find information about federal government resources.

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Sailboat packed with Haitians capsizes, 58 missing

A sailboat packed with up to 150 Haitian migrants capsized while it was being towed by a police vessel from the Turks and Caicos on Thursday, and the US Coast Guard said 20 people had died while another 58 are missing.

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Emergency Medicaid for immigrants goes to childbirth

An analysis of state Emergency Medicaid spending contradicts assumptions about emergency care provided to recent immigrants, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence have found.

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Love inspires immigrants to become U.S. citizens

Love, more than money, inspires legal immigrants to go through the naturalization process to become American citizens, according to new research from UC Irvine.

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Immigrants comprise a disproportionate number of black students

In a groundbreaking new study from the American Journal of Education, researchers from Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania reveal that first- or second-generation immigrants comprise a disproportionately high percentage of the of Black student population at U.S. universities, with the percentage increasing in proportion to the selectivity of the institution.

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