POLISCI 391PC Quiz: Test 1 Info

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLISCI 391PC
• Professor: Scott Blinder

Document Summary

Movement from one place to another (book) Migration becomes immigration/emigration when people cross international borders but at a fundamental level it is all still migration (book) Us offers this to about 1. 1 million immigrants annually. In the us most immigrants who become permanent residents can apply for naturalization after 5 years of legal residence. Long term residents who are not citizens. Each country accepts immigrants based on their own standards these standards involve 3 types of potential immigrants, those with blood ties, those with specific skills or wealth and those with ideological congruence. Blood ties is the largest of these categories. Means basically that some countries look for people who are related to a citizen in the receiving country. Other countries seek people who share a common ethnic background or a common religious background with societal groups. Grants a higher likelihood of admission to people with specialized job skills or with wealth that can be transferred to the new country.