immigrant families

Transplanted foreign kin

Immigrant families are family units that have moved from one country to settle in another.

The phrase appears frequently in discussions of immigration policy, often emphasizing the human dimension—parents and children rather than abstract statistics: The new policy separated immigrant families at the border.

It may refer to recent arrivals or to families with immigrant heritage across generations.

Opposites
migration status

immigrant familiesfounding families

Original settling households

locals

mobility/rootedness

immigrant familiesold families

Family

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