Concept information
Preferred term
immigration and citizenship
Definition
- Immigration concerns the movement of people across national borders; citizenship concerns who legally belongs to a state. People legally assimilate through citizenship, which excludes and includes. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Immigration and Citizenship]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Alien Land Acts
- Americanization
- assimilation
- asylum
- boat people
- borderlands
- border patrol
- brain drain
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- colonias
- cosmopolitanism
- cross-frontier contacts
- Dawes Act of 1887
- deficit model of ethnicity
- Dillingham Flaw
- domestic work
- economic impact of ethnic enclaves
- economic impact of immigration
- English immersion
- ethnic succession
- ethnonational minorities
- foreign students
- Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907
- guest workers
- Haitian and Cuban immigrations
- head start and immigrants
- Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
- immigrant communities
- immigrant health
- immigration and gender
- Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
- Immigration and Naturalization Service
- immigration and race
- Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
- 'marielitos'
- McCarran-Walter Act of 1952
- minority rights
- national origins systems
- operation bootstrap
- PATRIOT Act of 2001
- Proposition 187
- remittances
- repatriation of Mexican Americans
- return migration
- symbolic ethnicity
- third-generation principle
- transnational people
- U.S. immigration
- voting rights
- 'wetbacks'
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/immigration_and_citizenship
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