Immigrants from several sub-Saharan African countries have also settled in Spain as contract workers, although they represent only 4. 08 % of all the foreign residents in the country.

Philippe is the author of three books: Open World: The Truth about Globalisation, which is a counter-argument to Naomi Klein's No Logo ; Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them was shortlisted for the 2007 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and Aftershock: Reshaping the World Economy After the Crisis.

* BUniverse – “ Art, Trauma, and Democracy: Immigrants and Veterans ” – Krzysztof Wodickzo shares several short videos depicting immigrants and their feelings about living in a land that is not their own, Institute for Human Sciences, Boston University, December 3, 2009, http :// www. bu. edu / buniverse / view /? v = 1lV8st9M.

Byron Ingemar " Boss " Johnson ( December 10, 1890 – January 12, 1964 ), born Björn Ingimar " Bjössi " Jónsson, to family of Icelandic Immigrants, he served as the 24th Premier of the province of British Columbia, Canada, from 1947 to 1952.

Within the student body, 60 % are Hmong, 30 % African American and recent African Immigrants, and 10 % Hispanic and European American students.

* Immigrants, Emigrants and Me-20th Anniversary Double CD Remaster ( 2010 ) (# 10 Ireland Charts )

Immigrants ' behavior would be studied for difficulties in getting up the staircase.

Immigrants to America often Americanized their names.

Immigrants come from 180 different countries, including Turkey, Poland, Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Iran or Ghana.

Immigrants from Iceland then played on behalf of Canada and won the first ever Olympic medal in hockey.

* Matthew Frye Jacobson ( 1998 ), Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race.

* U. S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants ' Campaign to End Refugee Warehousing in refugee camps around the world, people are confined to their settlement and denied their basic rights.

The World Refugee Survey 2008, published by the U. S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, estimates that 110, 600 Somali refugees lived in Yemen in 2007, which is a fraction of the estimated 700, 000-strong Somali nationals already living and working in Yemen.

Immigrants from Nepal and India continued to enter Bhutan with a spurt from the 1960s when Bhutan's first modern 5-year plan began, many arriving as construction workers.

" Abolitionists, Irish Immigrants, and the Dilemmas of Romantic Nationalism " American Historical Review 1975 80 ( 4 ): 889 – 912.

Immigrants settled in the area, especially French Huguenots who poured in in 1688, after which the area became known as London's French quarter.

The U. S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants gives the world total as 62, 000, 000 refugees and estimates there are over 34, 000, 000 displaced by war, including internally displaced persons, who remain within the same national borders.

Immigrants, mostly Irish and German, settled in Philadelphia and the surrounding districts.

Illustrious Immigrants: The Intellectual Migration from Europe, 1930 / 41, Chicago: U of Chicago, 1971.

Immigrants from the south, fleeing from Al-Andalus, brought a Gothic influence to the Asturian kingdom.

A centrally financed network of local officers was provided to smooth inter-racial relations by conciliation, education, and informal pressure, while a National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants was established ( under the chairmanship of the Archbishop of Canterbury ) to encourage and help finance staff “ for local voluntary, good-neighbour type bodies .” A further Race Relations Act was passed in 1968, which made discrimination in letting or advertising housing illegal, together with discrimination in hiring and promotion.

" Huguenot Immigrants and the Formation of National Identities, 1548-1787 ," Historical Journal 2007 50 ( 2 ): 309-331,

One reason immigrants migrated was the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act ( IRCA ), which legalized 2. 3 million formerly undocumented Mexican Immigrants.

: Immigrants: 2, 814

Immigrants from other regions make up 29. 4 % of the population ; 0. 2 % of residents were born in a foreign country.

* Prchal, Tim ( 2004 ) " The Bohemian Paradox: My Antonia and Popular Images of Czech Immigrants " MELUS ( Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States ) 29 ( 2 ): pp. 3 – 25

Mount Gravatt was once a popular destination of German, Irish and English Immigrants to Australia after World war 1 and 2.

( 96. 8 % of all the Indian Immigrants to Guyana left from the port of Calcutta in North India, and 3. 2 % from the port of Madras in South India )

Immigrants made up some 30 % of the city at that time.

Immigrants were 27. 9 % of the population.

62 % of the Indian Immigrants to Guyana came from districts that are now part of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, 21 % from districts that are now part of Bihar state, 6 % were from prepartioned Bengal, 3 % from what are today Orissa and Jharkhand states, 3 % from what is today Tamil Nadu state, 3 % from Central India, 1 % from prepartioned Punjab and the remaining 1 % from the rest of India.

Immigrants and their U. S .- born descendants are expected to provide most of the U. S. population gains in the decades ahead.

Immigrants from neighbouring regions, such as the Kashmiri, Pashtun and Baluch, also form important element in the Punjabi population.

The golden toad of Monteverde, Costa Rica, was among the first casualties of amphibian declines.

* Our Lady of the Angels Day ( Costa Rica )

*** Mother's Day ( Antwerp and Costa Rica )

Other International General Service Offices ( Australia, Costa Rica, Russia, etc.

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According to the SEC, Aon ’ s subsidiaries made improper payments of over $ 3. 6 million to government officials and third party facilitators in Costa Rica, Egypt, Vietnam, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Myanmar and Bangladesh, between 1983 and 2007, in order to obtain and retain insurance contracts.

Abacá ( ; from Spanish " abacá " for Musa textilis ), Musa textilis, is a species of banana native to the Philippines, grown as a commercial crop in the Philippines, Ecuador, and Costa Rica.

Abaca fiber drying in abaca farm, Costa Rica

Today, abaca is produced commercially in only three countries: Philippines, Ecuador, and Costa Rica.

Yields are highest in Costa Rica, but the industry is new and planted acreage limited.

In Costa Rica, more modern harvest and drying techniques are being developed to accommodate the very high yields obtained there.

ARIN formerly covered Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands ( UK ), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela until LACNIC was formed.

In general Spanish, they are known as cortaplumas ( penknife, when it comes to folding blades ); in Spain, Mexico, and Costa Rica, they are colloquially known as cutters ; and in Uruguay the segmented fixed-blade knives are known as " trinchetas ".

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The Cayman Rise extends from southeastern Cuba along the northern margin of the Cayman Trough toward Costa Rica and resulted from Paleocene to Eocene island arc formation with associated volcanism along an extinct subduction zone.

Clipperton Island ( or ) is an uninhabited coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean, southwest of Mexico and west of Costa Rica, at.

In 1988, five Mexican fishermen became lost at sea after a storm that occurred during their trip along the coast of Costa Rica.

Pre-Columbian Ceramics from Nicoya, Costa Rica

In Pre-Columbian times the Native Americans in what is now Costa Rica were part of a cultural complex known as the " Intermediate Area ," between the Mesoamerican and Andean cultural regions.

The colonial period began when Christopher Columbus reached the eastern coast of Costa Rica on his fourth voyage in 1502.

Numerous subsequent Spanish expeditions followed, eventually leading to the first Spanish colony, Villa Bruselas in Costa Rica in 1524.

During most of the colonial period, Costa Rica was the southernmost province of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, which was nominally part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( i. e., Mexico ), but which in practice operated as a largely autonomous entity within the Spanish Empire.

Costa Rica's distance from the capital in Guatemala, its legal prohibition under Spanish law to trade with its southern neighbors in Panama, then part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada ( i. e., Colombia ), and the lack of resources such as gold and silver, made Costa Rica into a poor, isolated, and sparsely inhabited region within the Spanish Empire.

Costa Rica was described as " the poorest and most miserable Spanish colony in all America " by a Spanish governor in 1719.