"Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens."
The movement of people from one country or region to another, often with the aim of seeking better economic or social opportunities.
Introduction to Immigration: This teaches the basic concepts and terminologies involved in immigration such as migration, refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented immigrants.
History of Immigration: This topic is focused on the history of immigration in both the United States and other countries, including the reasons and circumstances that led to immigration.
Immigration Policies: This topic helps students learn the different immigration policies and laws that are applicable in various countries.
Economics of Immigration: It discusses the economic implications of immigration and examines how they impact on the respective national economies.
Socio-cultural impacts of immigration: This topic covers the cultural, social, and psychological effects that immigration has on host countries and their societies.
Immigration and Identity: This explores how immigration influences one's sense of identity and how the major differences and similarities which help define a culture.
Legal Issues in Immigration: This topic teaches the different legal procedures involved in immigration, such as visa application and deportation.
Multi-culturalism and Integration: This topic teaches students about the impact of cross-cultural integration on countries and social behavior.
Gender and sexuality in migration: This topic examines how gender and sexuality affects the experiences of migrants, and its implication for social policies and practices surrounding migration.
International cooperation on immigration: This topic teaches how governments and international organizations work together to manage immigration while maintaining the sovereignty of the host countries.
Statelessness: This topic teaches about stateless migrants and their experiences and how they are treated by host countries.
The role of media in immigration: This topic teaches how media can create an adequate image of migrants and influence public opinion around the issue of immigration.
The Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: This topic teaches the psychological and social factors which lead to negative attitudes towards migrants and their impact on host countries.
Intersectionality: This topic explores the ways in which individuals experiencies are shaped by the intersection of multiple identity dimensions such as race, gender, class and sexual orientation.
Health and Immigration: This examines the health needs and access to the provision of medical services for migrants in host countries.
Economic migration: This type of immigration is driven by the desire to secure better economic opportunities. People who migrate for economic reasons are often seeking better-paying jobs, better living conditions, and higher standards of living.
Forced migration: This type of immigration is characterized by people leaving their homes due to war, conflict, persecution, natural disasters, and other forced reasons. Refugee groups often form around forced migration.
Family reunion: This type of immigration occurs when people move to be with their immediate or extended family members who are already living in another country.
Asylum seekers: Asylum seekers are people who flee their countries for protection from persecution, war, or other forms of danger.
Student migration: This type of immigration occurs when students move to other countries to gain an education.
Political asylum: This is another form of asylum, where people flee their countries to find refuge from persecution or harm caused by political factors.
Entrepreneurial migration: This type of immigration is driven by the desire to start a business or invest in a new opportunity.
Humanitarian migration: This includes immigrants who move to a country for their well-being, safety, health problems, disabled persons, and other life conditions-related factors.
"Commuters, tourists, and other short-term stays in a destination country do not fall under the definition of immigration or migration."
"Research suggests that migration is beneficial both to the receiving and sending countries."
"Research, with few exceptions, finds that immigration on average has positive economic effects on the native population."
"Research is mixed as to whether low-skilled immigration adversely affects underprivileged natives."
"Estimates of gains ranging between 67 and 147 percent for the scenarios in which 37 to 53 percent of the developing countries' workers migrate to the developed countries."
"Development economists argue that reducing barriers to labor mobility between developing countries and developed countries would be one of the most efficient tools of poverty reduction."
"Positive net immigration can soften the demographic dilemma in the aging global North."
"The academic literature provides mixed findings for the relationship between immigration and crime worldwide."
"Research shows that immigration either has no impact on the crime rate or that it reduces the crime rate in the United States."
"Research shows that country of origin matters for speed and depth of immigrant assimilation."
"There is considerable assimilation overall for both first- and second-generation immigrants."
"Research has found extensive evidence of discrimination against foreign-born and minority populations in criminal justice, business, the economy, housing, health care, media, and politics in the United States and Europe."