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Immigration Vocab
Question | Answer |
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immigrate | The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. |
emigrate | The act of leaving one’s own country to settle permanently in another country. |
pull factor | Reasons to want to move into a new country. |
push factor | Reasons to want to leave one’s own country. |
ghettos | Ethnic neighborhoods where people of the same race, religion, or country, lived. |
tenement housing | Multi-family apartment housing, usually occupied by immigrant families. |
nativism | The belief that native-born Americans are superior to foreigners. |