Immigration Terms

Xenophobia

• law or regulation which allows a limited number of immigrants per year

• a person who flees from a place to escape danger or persecution

• fear, dislike, or prejudice against other cultures and people from different nations

• process by which an immigrant gains the rights of a natural-born citizen

Nativism

• the process of fitting into a new culture or becoming like others in that culture

• difference and variety in a group, society, or institution

• favoring the interests of established inhabitants over immigrants; fear of immigrants taking away from national identity

• protection granted by one nation to a refugee from another nation

Exclusion Act

• the cheapest passenger accommodations on a boardship

• federal law prohibiting the immigration of certain races or nationalities

• the existence of different ethnic, religious, or political backgrounds within one society

• the process of fitting into a new culture or becoming like others in that culture

Know-Nothings

• nativist political party aiming to combat foreign influences and uphold traditional American ways

• people who believed property should be publicly owned and each person works according to their abilities

• protection granted by one nation to a refugee from another nation

• the act of leaving a country to settle elsewhere

Push Factors

• someone who does not go through with the correct legal procedure to live in a country

• conditions in a country that make people want to live there (ex: freedoms)

• the act of entering a country to live there

• conditions in a country that make it difficult to live there (ex: violence)

Pull Factors

• conditions in a country that make people want to live there (ex: freedoms)

• the process by which an immigrant gains the rights of a natural-born citizen

• conditions in a country that make it difficult to live there (ex: violence)

• a legal permit to enter a country

Assimilation

• to force a foreign national (citizen of another nation) to leave a country

• someone who goes through the correct legal procedure to live and work in a country

• governmental regulation which allows a limited number of immigrants per year

• the process of fitting into a new culture or becoming like others in that culture

Refugee

• difference and variety in a group, society, or institution

• a person who flees from a place to escape danger or persecution

• a legal permit to enter a country

• protection granted by one nation to a person fleeing from another nation

Naturalization

• governmental regulation which allows a limited number of immigrants per year

• the process by which an immigrant gains the rights of a natural-born citizen

• a legal permit to enter a country

• someone who leaves their homeland to settle somewhere else

Visa

• the process by which an immigrant gains the rights of a natural-born citizen

• protection granted by one nation to a refugee from another nation

• a legal permit to enter a country

• someone who goes through the correct legal procedure to live and work in a country