When you hire new employees, especially upper-level managers, you need them to hit the ground running and begin their work as soon as possible. The assimilation method of management puts employees in ...

In his immigration speech on Thursday, President Obama heralded America as a "nation of immigrants" defined not by blood or birth, but by "fidelity to the shared values that we all hold so dear." If ...

The topic of “immigrant integration” has become a buzz phrase here in the nation’s capital, but some continue to prefer to use the word “assimilation” instead. Two years ago, President Bush weighed in ...

Freedom, as it has historically been understood in the English-speaking world, includes as fundamental assumptions a cultural norm of individualism and a government that does not attempt to assume the ...

You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. Many of you will recognize these now-famous lines as spoken by the Borg, the arch antagonists of the Star Trek franchise. As I sat down to write this ...

A U.S. government immigration initiative has changed its name from one aimed at the "integration" of immigrants to one aimed at their "assimilation." U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), ...