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  2. Alien (law) - Wikipedia

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    legal alien — any foreign national who is permitted under the law to be in the host country. This is a very broad category which includes travel visa holders or foreign tourists, registered refugees , temporary residents , permanent residents , and those who have relinquished their citizenship and/or nationality. [ 7 ]

  3. Definitions of whiteness in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The process of officially being defined as white by law often came about in court disputes over pursuit of citizenship. The Naturalization Act of 1790 offered naturalization only to "any alien, being a free white person". In at least 52 cases, people denied the status of white by immigration officials sued in court for status as white people.

  4. Legal status - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes legal status refers to a characteristic wholly created by law, such as being a Social Security recipient." Thus, legal status is "a feature of individuals and their relationships to the law." [5] Tiffany Graham added to Balkin's definition: "legal status refers to a set of characteristics that define an individual's membership in an ...

  5. Sociology of law - Wikipedia

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    The sociology of law, legal sociology, or law and society is often described as a sub-discipline of sociology or an interdisciplinary approach within legal studies. [1] Some see sociology of law as belonging "necessarily" to the field of sociology, [ 2 ] but others tend to consider it a field of research caught up between the disciplines of law ...

  6. Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 - Wikipedia

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    For instance, from 2015 to 2019, only 305 individuals were granted legal status through the 1972 registry date. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Several political figures and immigration activists advocate for an advance in the current entry deadline, which would allow for the legalization of millions of long-term undocumented immigrants.

  7. Social alienation - Wikipedia

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    Social alienation is a person's feeling of disconnection from a group – whether friends, family, or wider society – with which the individual has an affiliation. Such alienation has been described as "a condition in social relationships reflected by (1) a low degree of integration or common values and (2) a high degree of distance or isolation (3a) between individuals, or (3b) between an ...

  8. Immigration Act of 1918 - Wikipedia

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    The act expanded and elaborated the brief definition found in the Anarchist Exclusion Act 15 years earlier to read: [3] (a) aliens who are anarchists; (b) aliens who advise, advocate, or teach, or who are members of, or affiliated with, any organization, society, or group, that advises, advocates, or teaches opposition to all organized government;

  9. Legal socialization - Wikipedia

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    The authors: Chantal Kourilsky-Augeven believe pre-eminence previously given to the transmission processes of values, norms and behavioural models should be renounced in favour of a definition of legal socialisation during childhood and adolescence, from the perspective of the subject playing an active part; Law must be considered as a ...