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Illegal emigration is departure from a country in violation of emigration laws. Countries often seek to regulate who departs a country for diverse reasons, such as stopping criminals from leaving, preventing labor shortages and capital flight , and averting brain drain .
In the medieval Islamic Caliphate, a form of passport was the bara'a, a receipt for taxes paid. Border controls were in place to ensure that only people who paid their zakah (for Muslims) or jizya (for dhimmis) taxes could travel freely between different regions of the Caliphate; thus, the bara'a receipt was a "basic passport".
Iraqi Kurds fleeing to Turkey in April 1991, during the Gulf War. Immigration to Turkey has historical roots in the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.Beginning in the late 18th century until the end of the 20th century, an estimated 10 million Ottoman Muslim citizens, the Muhacir and their descendants born after the onset of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire emigrated to Thrace and ...
President-elect Donald Trump's "border czar" Tom Homan vowed to build "family facilities" to detain and deport the massive number of migrants who have entered the country illegally in recent years ...
Britain said it had struck a deal with Turkey in a bid to slow the flow of illegal immigrants passing through the Mediterranean country on their way to Europe, including joint police operations ...
Some sovereign states refuse entry to all citizens of certain states.These restrictions differ from travel visa requirements, which require travelers to obtain permission to enter a country in advance of their travel.
Tom Homan, President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming border czar, told NBC News on Friday afternoon that he is pitching the "fresh idea" of a hotline for Americans to report immigrants they ...
A migrant who fled their home because of economic hardship is an economic migrant, and strictly speaking, not a displaced person.; If the displaced person was forced out of their home because of economically driven projects, such as the Three Gorges Dam in China, the situation is referred to as development-induced displacement.