Category
page 1Immigration law
citizenship
Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state. Though citizenship is often conflated with nationality in today's English-speaking world, international law does not usually use the term citizenship to refer to nationality; these two notions are conceptually different dimensions of collective membership.
foreigner
person not having citizenship in a country
Kafala system
system used to monitor migrant laborers in Arab countries
permanent residency
status of a person in a country
family reunification
immigration reason
immigration law
national government policies which control the phenomenon of immigration to their country
foreign worker
person working in a country other than one of which they are a citizen
right of return
right of voluntary return to or re-enter one's country of origin or of citizenship
work permit
permission to take a job within a foreign country
pushback
non-legal return of refugees and immigrants across the border
Refugee identity certificate
travel ban
restriction of all means of travel
Right of abode
legal term
Federal popular initiative "against mass immigration"
referendum in Switzerland
Convention on the Participation of Foreigners in Public Life at Local Level
Estonian nationality law
act of Estonia
immigration detention
Third Country National
term used in the context of migration and, in the U.S., regarding public-sector contracts
Right of abode in Hong Kong
legal right to permanent residency in Hong Kong