immigration history
Ancestors' arrival documentation
Immigration history refers to the record of when, how, and from where a person or their ancestors came to a country.
Immigration authorities track this information, and it affects legal status, citizenship applications, and background checks.
The phrase also describes the academic study of migration patterns: Her research focuses on the immigration history of the American Southwest.
- Ellis IslandHistoric immigrant processing center
- economic migrationMoving for financial opportunity
- labor migrationRelocating for employment opportunities
- border regionsAreas along territorial edges
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
steerage · indentured servitude · Jewish diaspora · border controls · African diaspora · brain drain · remittances · Great Migration · tenement · climate refugees · heritage · family tree · Irish diaspora · homeland · arrival · quotas · visa lottery · ships
- Celtic DiasporaIrish diaspora, Irish Americans, Celtic heritage, Irish ancestry, Irish immigrants
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship
- Asian AmericansAsian American, Chinese American, Japanese American, Korean American, Filipino American
- German-BraziliansGerman festivals, language maintenance
- Latin American Jews
- Latin American historyindependence movements, encomienda, independence movement, dictatorships, banana republics
immigration historyindigenous heritage
Aboriginal cultural legacy
native ancestry · indigenous roots · ancestral roots · colonial heritage · deep roots