immigrant rights
Migrant legal safeguards
Immigrant rights are legal protections and civil liberties afforded to people who have moved to a country where they are not citizens.
The term often appears in advocacy contexts, referring to efforts to expand or defend such protections: immigrant rights organizations, immigrant rights activists.
Debates center on which rights apply to documented versus undocumented immigrants, and whether certain protections are universal human rights or reserved for citizens.
- sanctuary citiesMunicipalities limiting immigration enforcement cooperation
- safe havenProtected place of shelter
- due processGuaranteed judicial fairness
- work permitsDocuments authorizing legal employment
- undocumented workersLaborers without legal authorization
asylum · naturalization · dreamer · grassroots organizing · immigration court · resettlement programs · refugee camps · family reunification · asylum applications · detention centers · anti-discrimination laws · employment visas · healthcare access · protest marches · community centers · DACA · path to citizenship · residency status
- social causesfeminism, charity, environmentalism, volunteering, pacifism
- Mexican Immigrationbraceros, Mexican Americans, Tejanos, migrants, undocumented
- mutual aidteamwork, helping, sharing, lending, cooperation
- naturalizationcitizenship test, naturalization ceremony, naturalization test, naturalization certificate, citizenship oath
- Political Inclusionminority voters, minority leaders, voter access, political participation, underrepresentation
- reform movementsabolitionism, muckraking, labor reform, child labor reform, prison reform
immigrant rightsdeportation
Legal expulsion from country
immigration restriction · immigration enforcement · closed borders · border security · mass deportation
immigrant rightsnativism
Preference for native-born citizens
America First · ethnic nationalism · white nationalism · xenophobia · anti-immigrant sentiment