She considers herself among the Issei who are immigrants born in Japan.
Estimating the figure for the entire city, he reduced the percentage to adjust for factors like children of immigrants being born here.
As of 2008, 30.6% of Swiss resident population had an "immigrant background", defined as either immigrants or children born to immigrant parents.
Issei (一世) - The first generation of immigrants, born in Japan before moving to Canada.
Both are grandsons of Italian immigrants, born in the first half of the 1940's.
One in four recent immigrants born in the former Soviet Union were on welfare when the census was taken.
There is research that suggests that even first-generation immigrants, born in Italy, soon became assimilated in the new country.
These figures do not count the large numbers of children of Guyanese and Trinidadian immigrants born here.
The 1979 celebration was a great success and included the presence of some of the original immigrants born in India.
Of the 2726 European immigrants born in non-British states, 1025 came from Russian Poland.