Immigration

Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take-up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker.

Immigrants are motivated to leave their former countries of citizenship, or habitual residence, for a variety of reasons, including a lack of local access to resources, a desire for economic prosperity, to find or engage in paid work, to better their standard of living, fami
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A Tender Age
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Inside Out & Back Again
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Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
The Arrival
Exit West
Behold the Dreamers
The Sun Is Also a Star
Other Words for Home
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Estonian diaspora in fiction
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Eleanor Roosevelt
“ What has happened to us in this country? If we study our own history, we find that we have always been ready to receive the unfortunate from other countries, and though this may seem a generous gesture on our part, we have profited a thousand fold by what they have brought us. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

Mark Steyn
“ I believe Western culture -- rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. -- is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in Scandinavia, and four Scandinavians in Syria. Follow the traffic. I support immigration, but with assimilation. ...more ”
― Mark Steyn

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