"Living in America: Challenges Facing New Immigrants and Refugees" by Katherine Garrett and Robin Wood Johnson Foundation is a focus group study that explains the common challenges immigrants encounter when they come to America. ... The research conducted by Katherine Garrett and the Robin Wood Johnson Foundation states, "Language barriers are a fundamental hurdle for immigrants and refugees in this study and appear to stop them from making vital connections in their communities" (286). ... Not knowing how to speak English effectively presents the possibility of making an...

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Secondly citizens are free to move from one country to another and they can freely study, travel, work, or live in a European country, this opens up more job opportunities especially to those people who are in poor countries. ... For instance, its clear that there are some limits to the scope for the national monetary policy to deliver both price and exchange rate stability in a world with free capital movements. ... The United States has English that is not a official language. Mexico has Spanish and Canada has French and English. So I don't think that Mexicans will accept English as an...

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In her book, Bridging Divides: The Channel Tunnel and English Legal Identity in the New Europe, Professor Eve Darian-Smith discusses origins, functions, and affects of the European Union (EU). ... Darian-Smith evokes portrayal of the English Channel Tunnel as a phenomenal link between United Kingdom and France, "The Tunnel Link may help us prosper/ Europe now is close to hand/ Trans-Manche in one fell swoop becomes/ The modern Conqueror of our land! ... Customs and immigration agreements have been enhanced to allow European citizens more freedom to live, work, and study in any of the member s...

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Romania - a Special Case - Corruption, Deficiencies of the Party System, Authoritarianism - Not quite two years before local elections, one and a half years before parliamen-tary elections and two years before presidential elections, Romania seems to be standing at a crossroads. Thus, the ruling post-communists, the Romanian Social Democrats (PSD) of prime-minister and PSD party leader Adrian Nastase have to decide on how to continue the required political, social and economic transforma-tion process. Can they afford social unrest due to required reforms of the eco-nomic and social sys...

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