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The term second-generation immigrant attracts criticism due to it being an oxymoron. Namely, critics say, a "second-generation immigrant" is not an immigrant, since being "second-generation" means that the person is born in the country and the person's parents are the immigrants in question. Generation labeling immigrants is further complicated ...
An immigrant who traveled abroad for a short period of time (i.e., a "Returning Resident"); [13] An immigrant and dependents of the immigrant who is conducting religious practices and are needed by a religion sector to be in the United States. [13] An immigrant and their dependent who is/was a United States government employee abroad.
Research finds that first generation immigrants from countries with less egalitarian gender cultures adopt gender values more similar to natives over time. [ 308 ] [ 309 ] According to one study, "this acculturation process is almost completed within one generational succession: The gender attitudes of second generation immigrants are difficult ...
Among his books are the critically acclaimed Immigrant America: A Portrait (with Alejandro Portes; 3rd ed. 2006); [8] and two companion books based on Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (also with Portes): Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America, [9] and Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation. [10]
Canada receives its immigrant population from almost 200 countries. Statistics Canada projects that immigrants will represent between 29.1% and 34.0% of Canada's population in 2041, compared with 23.0% in 2021, [1] while the Canadian population with at least one foreign born parent (first and second generation persons) could rise to between 49.8% and 54.3%, up from 44.0% in 2021.
First-generation immigrants from the British Isles remain a strong component of local society despite the ending of special immigration status for British subjects in the 1960s. Also present in large numbers relative to other Canadian cities (except Toronto), is a diverse background of European ethnicities.
Jus soli is the predominant rule in the Americas; explanations for this geographical phenomenon include: the establishment of lenient laws by past European colonial powers to entice immigrants from the Old World and displace native populations in the New World, along with the emergence of successful wars of independence movements that widened ...
Most immigrants became pioneers, clearing and cultivating the virgin land of the Midwest and extending the pre-Civil War settlements further west, into Kansas and Nebraska. [45] Once sizable Swedish farming communities had formed on the prairie, the greatest impetus for further peasant migration came through personal contacts.