immigration
Immigration describes arrival; emigration describes departure. This topic is part of Migration within Government & Society. This page currently draws on 11 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
immigration trivia questions
Immigration means moving into a country or region to do what?
Answer: Live there
Bonus fact: An immigrant arrives in a new country or region intending to reside there.
What is the opposite directional term to immigration, referring to leaving a country to settle elsewhere?
Answer: Emigration
Bonus fact: Immigration describes arrival; emigration describes departure.
What term describes the legal process by which a non-citizen becomes a citizen of a country?
Answer: Naturalization
Bonus fact: Naturalization grants citizenship to an eligible non-citizen under a country's laws.
What is the purpose of immigration control at a border crossing?
Answer: Determine whether travelers may legally enter
Bonus fact: Border agencies enforce entry and immigration law.
Population growth occurs when births and immigration exceed deaths and what?
Answer: Emigration
Bonus fact: Population change reflects natural increase plus net migration.
Immigration rate measures people moving into what?
Answer: A country or region
Bonus fact: Immigration increases a population through migration.
Immigration contributes positively to what demographic measure?
Answer: Net migration
Bonus fact: Net migration equals immigration minus emigration.
If immigration exceeds emigration, net migration is what?
Answer: Positive
Bonus fact: More arrivals than departures add to population.
If emigration exceeds immigration, net migration is what?
Answer: Negative
Bonus fact: More departures than arrivals reduce population through migration.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 imposed a federal immigration ban on which group?
Answer: Chinese laborers
Bonus fact: The law initially suspended immigration by Chinese laborers for ten years.
Emigration means moving out of what?
Answer: A country or region
Bonus fact: Immigration describes movement into a destination.