“Today, the annual tidal wave of over a million immigrants . . . is endangering our American way of life.” —Americans for Immigration Control “Immigration is not undermining the American experiment; it is an integral part of...

Immigration Timeline 1820–1899 ∼ Coming to America Factories employ entire families of immigrants (1820s–1830s) / Old Immigration from England, Ireland, Scandinavia, and Germany (1830–1870) / Fourteenth Amendment declares that all...

Moving to a new home in a faraway place in the early twenty-first century can be complex, difficult, and expensive. Like immigrants of the past, twenty-first-century families who are thinking about immigrating need to plan ahead. They have to take care...

Like Spain and England, France and the Netherlands sought to expand their empires in the seventeenth century. Both nations established important colonies, and each stood a good chance of building an enduring empire in North America. But the competition...

Immigration and Immigrants Immigrants are individuals who leave their country of origin to settle in another state. For the receiving state, this process is known as immigration, and for the sending state this phenomenon is emigration . For much of...

Immigration is—politically and economically—one of the most controversial policy issues in Western Europe. Originally a diverse continent, Europe is being criticized for closing its doors to new citizens and becoming a...

Demographic movements of people have occurred throughout history, sometimes on a vast scale and over very great distances, but before the development of the nation state only warfare and conquest could exert any control over the phenomenon. From...

The permanent settling of people from other countries. Immigrants take up a new residence to escape the poverty or persecution of their original countries, to increase their personal and ECONOMIC WELFARE in a new country or to join relatives who have...

Immigration refers to the movement of people between one country and another. While human migration has existed throughout human history, immigration implies long-term permanent or forced indefinite residence (and often eventual citizenship) by the...