Immigration

Who is a migrant?

Somone living outside their own country for a year or more

Emigrant

A person leaving their own country to live somehere else

immigrant

A person arriving in a new country to live there.

Refuges

Forced migrants and for political reasons

Legal migrants

Migrants that came through the legal system

Irregular migrants

Migrants that are their illegally and not recognized as a legal migrant

Voluntary migrants

Travel somewhere for the want too, not being forced.

Labor migrants

Move for economic reasons

What are the complications with migrants and the categories

• Category overlap

• Changing status

• Multiple motivation

Principles from which laws of citizenship and nationality derive

• Lus sanguinus (Law of blood)

• Lus of soli (Law of soil)

• Lus domicilii (Law of domicile)

Integration

The process through which new comers adapt to a host society becoming active participants in society

Assimilation

Process where immigrants take the cultural norms and becoming more like the dominant group.

Multiculturalism

Societies that contain multiple cultures

Diaspora

Voluntary or forced dispersal of people from their original homeland to forgein reasons while maintaining shaerd cultural connection to their home country.