struggles of immigrants
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- The documentary powerfully highlights the struggles of immigrants as they try to build new lives in a foreign land.
Examples
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She wrote a novel exploring the struggles of immigrants adapting to life in a big city.
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Many organizations offer support to help ease the struggles of immigrants in their communities.
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The struggles of immigrants are often overlooked.
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We must address the struggles of immigrants in our community.
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Many organizations offer support to help ease the struggles of immigrants in their communities.
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The documentary powerfully highlights the struggles of immigrants as they try to build new lives in a foreign land.
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She wrote a novel exploring the struggles of immigrants adapting to life in a big city.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'struggles' (difficulties, efforts) combined with the genitive/associative 'of' and 'immigrants' (people who move to another country) yields the clear meaning 'difficulties experienced by immigrants.' This construction is cross-linguistically common and follows a basic noun + of + noun pattern, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Struggles of immigrants shows immigrants carrying heavy bags, learning a new language, and trying to find work in a strange place. That's why the phrase means 'difficulties and challenges' people face when they move to another country.