foreign born
Born across borders
Foreign born describes someone born in a country other than the one where they currently live or hold citizenship.
The term appears frequently in demographic and immigration contexts: the foreign-born population of the United States, foreign-born workers.
Sometimes hyphenated as foreign-born, especially before a noun.
- immigrantOne who resettles abroad
- naturalizedGiven citizenship status
- citizenshipStatus as state member
- dual citizenshipHolding two nationalities simultaneously
- legal statusOne's position in law
homeland · old country · expatriate · refugee · migrant · visa · work permit · passport · ancestry · origin · alien · diaspora · native tongue · newcomer · settler · assimilate · accent · melting pot
- US demographicspopulation density, population growth, population decline, median age, urban population
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship
- migrantsmigrants, arctic tern, monarch butterfly, caribou, humpback whale
- backgroundbackdrop, setting, scenery, scene, landscape
- Censuscensus bureau, census tract, enumeration, enumerator, headcount
foreign bornnative
Originating from a place
homegrown · born and raised · native son · native daughter · native born
foreign bornindigenous
Originating in a region
native · aboriginal · autochthonous · First Nations · native-born
foreign, born, foreigner, foreignness, foreigners, borne, newborn, firstborn, reborn