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immigration
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...immigration, entrance of a person (an alien...establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally...may be very important. High rates of immigration are frequently accompanied by militant......
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alien
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......if they are in the country illegally. The Immigration and Nationality (McCarran-Walter) Act...each year with the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (formerly the Immigration and Naturalization Service).As citizens......
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Chinese exclusion
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......Chinese exclusion, policy of prohibiting immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States...which guaranteed the right of Chinese immigration; it did not, however, grant the right...many Americans were opposed to further immigration by what they considered to be an inferior......
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Australia
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......War II, spurred by an ambitious postwar immigration program. In the postwar years, immigration from Greece, Turkey, Italy, and other...19th cent. that were designed to prevent immigration by nonwhites, substantial Asian immigration......
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naturalization
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......revised and recodified the entire body of immigration and naturalization regulations. By...administered by the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services of the Dept. of Homeland Security...exceptions made by means of private immigration and naturalization bills passed by Congress......
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Falashas
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......the slow processing of their immigration requests. Roughly a third of...immigrated before the Israel immigration program ended in Aug., 2008...however, Israel resumed the immigration program, and eventually decided......
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France
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......increased. The mingling of peoples over the centuries as well as immigration in the 20th cent. has given France great ethnic diversity...although only an estimated 5% are churchgoers. With growing immigration from Asia, Turkey, and North Africa, France also has a......
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Ellis Island
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......but most famously served (1892–1954) as the chief immigration station of the United States. It is estimated that 40...the island was opened to tourists in 1976. In 1990 an immigration museum was opened, and many records of immigrant arrivals......
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Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple
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......commissions and made many reports on trust, currency, labor, and immigration problems. Out of these experiences came his books The Trust Problem (1900; 5th ed. 1929) and The Immigration Problem (with W. J. Lauck, 1911; 6th ed. 1925). As......
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Ambon
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......Indonesian government during the short-lived South Moluccan Republic. After the end of Dutch rule, it was a source of major immigration to the Netherlands. As a result of continued violence between rebels and government troops, many Ambonese emigrated to......