Immigration Vocabulary

Immigrants who are inspected upon entry and have government approval to be in a country

• Restricted Immigration

• Documented Immigrants

• Undocumented Immigrants

• Refugee

Process by which a citizen born in one country becomes a citizen of a new country they moved to

• Naturalization

• Immigrant

• Refugee

Immigrants who come into a country without the government's permission

• Religious Persecution

• Poverty

• Undocumented Immigrants

• Naturalization

A person who has been forced to leave their country because of something negative

• Naturalization

• Restricted Immigration

• Poverty

• Refugee

To cause a person to suffer because of their religious beliefs; a push factor

• Poverty

• Religious Persecution

• Refugee

• Immigrant

The state of being extremely poor; a push factor

• Poverty

• Refugee

• Restricted Immigration

• Undocumented Immigrants

Placing restrictions on who can come into a country

• Documented Immigrants

• Unrestricted Immigration

• Undocumented Immigrants

• Restricted Immigration

A person who comes to live in a foreign country

• Restricted Immigration

• Immigrant

• Refugee

• Naturalization

An artifact or any other source of information that was created by someone who witnessed the event

• Religious Freedom

• Primary Source

• Pull Factor

• Ellis Island

The place where your bags are examined when you are going into a country

• Customs

• Economy

• Pull Factor

• Push Factor