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Chain migration is the social process by which immigrants from a particular area follow others from that area to a particular destination. The destination may be in another country or in a new location within the same country. John S. MacDonald and Leatrice D. MacDonald define chain migration as "movement in which prospective migrants learn of ...
The term "circular migration" describes the fluid movement of people between areas, usually for the purpose of employment. [1] The term itself first came into use in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly related to urbanization, development, and internal migration. [2] There are six criteria that define migration as being circular: [3] Temporary.
United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is the largest federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security.It is the country's primary border control organization, charged with regulating and facilitating international trade, collecting import duties, as well as enforcing U.S. regulations, including trade, customs and immigration.
Between 2001 and 2009, this was part of a general trend seeing a drop in white British people by 36,000 and a concurrent rise in non-white British people from 6.64 million to 9.13 million, including Indian, Chinese, Pakistani, mixed white and black Caribbean, black African, Australian, Canadian and European immigrants.
House agreed to Senate amendment on September 30, 1965 (320–70) Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 3, 1965. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart–Celler Act and more recently as the 1965 Immigration Act, was a federal law passed by the 89th United States Congress and signed into law by ...
The 'age of mass migration' usually refers to the voluntary transatlantic migration of European peasants and laborers to the Americas. Immigration from Europe accounted for about 40% of the total United States population growth in the late 19th century. It has been argued that the term should include other mass migrations that occurred in the ...
Germany's population rose to an all-time high of 84.3 million people in 2022. [ 63 ] In 2023, 1,933,000 people immigrated to Germany, including 276,000 from Ukraine and 126,000 from Turkey, while 1,270,000 people emigrated. Net immigration to Germany was 663,000 in 2023, down from a record 1,462,000 in 2022.
Nearly 8 million people immigrated to the United States from 2000 to 2005; 3.7 million of them entered without papers. [67][68]Hispanic immigrants suffered job losses during the late-2000s recession,[69]but since the recession's end in June 2009, immigrants posted a net gain of 656,000 jobs.