Immigration vocabulary

A room that is rented or a small apartment located in a large apartment building. Found in the city. Usually run down and overcrowded. A place where many immigrants lived.

• turning point

• tenement

• alien

• quota

to belong to a social group that has a common nationality or culture

• ghetto

• immigration

• pogrom

• ethnicity

to take in and understand fully

• pogrom

• assimilate

• culture

• immigrant

An area of the city, especially a slum area where a minority group or groups live

• tenement

• ghetto

• nativism

• pogrom

To protect the rights and interests of the people who were born in the country and were the original people who lived in that country.

• ghetto

• quota

• Nativism

• assimilate

To move from a foreign country and live permanently in another country.

• assimilate

• ethnicity

• immigration

• quota

a system that allows a fixed or limited number of people

• quota

• tenement

• immigrant

• ethnicity

a person who comes from another country; synonym of immigrant

• quota

• alien

• pogrom

• assimilate

an organized massacre (killing) of a certain ethnic group

• pogrom

• nativism

• tenement

• ghetto