Hello! My name is Jason Joseph Vayner, I am 18 years old and live in Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, NY. I am (obviously) a student at Macaulay @ Hunter and my intended major is Chemistry and am currently on the Pre Medical track. Although Chemistry will be my focus in college, I am considering minoring in Religious Studies for personal knowledge of religions and cultures around the world. In my free time I enjoy swimming, chess, biking, playing video games and video editing for myself and other people. I have volunteered bi-weekly in a senior center for the past 3 years and I also babysit my siblings who are 16, 4, and 3. However, I’m not sure who is more difficult to handle, the toddlers or the emotional teenager…
My father is from Odessa, Ukraine and my mother is from Bobruisk, Belarus, both of which are former republics of the Soviet Union. Their parents took them to America to escape religious and cultural persecution in order to have a better life for their children. They fled from the USSR to Austria, then Rome and from there my family split up for Israel, Australia, and the US. My parents met in Brooklyn and I was born a year and one day after their marriage on August 15, 1995. Due to immigrating to America at the ages of 10 and 15, (my mother and father respectively), we speak Runglish at home, sentences that combine the two languages Russian and English,and my broken Russian speaking skills reflect that.
Here are the slides from Joe Salvo’s presentation. It seems that the 51% figure we were discussing (thanks, Milan!) is actually people who speak English at home. Only 23% of New Yorkers are not English proficient. Here’s the full report.
About public assistance (from the report): “Overall, the percentage of native-born households receiving public assistance (4.5 percent) was similar to that for foreign-born households (4 percent).” Note that they are talking about households, not individuals. From the footnote: “Households with at least one person receiving public assistance were defined as receiving public assistance income.”
According to this excellent source of information on all things migration in the world, immigrants are more likely to be married than native-born people (nation-wide).
I have not found anything about hours worked per week, but I’ll keep looking. If you come up with interesting information or story, post it here even if it’s not your week.
Hi, I’m Fiona, the Instructional Technology Fellow or, ITF, for this course. I’ve worked with Macaulay Hunter students and faculty members since 2009. I am currently completing my doctoral dissertation in the English Program at The Graduate Center, CUNY. My research examines the role of translation in shaping the national racial imaginary of Malaysia through the analysis of literature and visual culture. In addition, I’ve also taught transnational literature and digital composition courses at CUNY.
Here’s my story of how I came to New York City: I was born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and came to the United States to complete my college degree. I moved to Brooklyn after graduating from SUNY Geneseo in 2004. I have come to love Brooklyn, and am often surprised at how rapidly the borough has changed in the time I have been here. I regularly travel to Kuala Lumpur to see my family. A while ago, when Apple first released its oh-so-reliable Maps app, Mad Magazine did a spoof cover of The New Yorker magazine. I found it amusing that the two places I call home, located on opposite sides of the planet, were right next to each other on the map. I also wished it were true.
Source: Mad Magazine, Jan 10, 2012
I am sociologist at the Max Planck Institute, which is in Germany, but I am neither German nor live there. Instead, I live in New York City, where I conduct research on immigration, race and ethnicity, and public space. As part of my work, I recently traveled to South Africa, Singapore, and Germany. I got my PhD from Princeton University, where I wrote a dissertation about immigrant naturalization, which will soon appear as a book. I enjoy reading contemporary novels, urban gardening, hiking, and kayaking New York waterways. I am also involved in local activism. Over the holiday break, I visited the Grand Canyon for the first time.
I am an immigrant. I moved to New York from Moscow with my family when I was 12 years old. My parents, like many of their peers, took advantage of the American initiative to ‘rescue’ Soviet Jews, and arrived to the United States as political refugees in 1991. As refugees, my family received assistance with settlement, including initial help with rent and English classes. I grew up in Bensonhurst, where I attended IS 281. I commuted to Manhattan to attend Stuyvesant High School. After high school, I left New York, living in Connecticut, Texas, and New Jersey, before returning to Brooklyn three years ago.
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