Upon arrival to a foreign country, immigrants face challenges in assimilation and integration processes and thus experience different modes and levels of incorporation within the host society.

Despite their common faith, the immigrants experienced significant culture shock, as well as mistreatment by the white majority.

"We dare not close our eyes to the fact that color makes a difference, and that is something white European immigrants do not experience," he said.

In it, Ms. Bikkal has explained why some immigrants are experiencing delays in obtaining citizenship papers, and she offered information on how to circumvent such problems.

Guatapanal is not the only place where immigrants have experienced the Dominican Republic's version of mob justice.

"Our desire is to retain the visitor experience of arriving by water, the same way the immigrants experienced it," he said.

Many Chinese-Canadian families still share certain distinctive socioeconomic characteristics, as they tend to be middle or upper middle class though first-generation immigrants may generally experience great poverty.

Park Service administrators have said that only the ferry, not a bridge, can give tourists a "true feel" of what immigrants experienced upon arriving.

I think that immigrants experience a similar feeling of dislocation and uncertainty as a result of not belonging to the mainstream of American society.

And that conflict paled in comparison to anything which these immigrants had experienced.