Concept information
Preferred term
mass immigration
Definition
- While human beings have migrated across the planet in large numbers for millennia, political concerns about immigration arose following the emergence of the modern nation-state, which increasingly desired to define its territorial boundaries, regulate who entered, and conscript and tax citizens. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, enormous population movements became a salient global phenomenon. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Mass Immigration]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/mass_immigration
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