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Glossary of Immigration Terms
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Chapkina, Nadejda, Charles Jaret, Guangya Liu, and Angela Pollock. 2010. “Glossary of Immigration Terms”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, April. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/glossary-of-immigration-terms.

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Objective: To clearly explain basic and useful terms commonly found in discussions of immigration. The "vocabulary of immigration" derives from words contributed by social science, bureaucratic immigration agencies, and past and present immigrants’ own lived experience. These terms often appear in the media or in discussions about immigration. Since...

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Migration/Immigration

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