Immigration is the act of relocating to another country or region. An immigrant is a person who intends to stay long-term (often forever), in contrast to a casual visitor or traveler.
Nationality laws usually cover immigration and citizenship.
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BBC In Depth: Destination UK - Ongoing coverage of immigration and asylum issues including news, background and features. Audio and video clips, interactives, photos, statistics and graphs, quiz and links.
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BBC: Immigration Bond Scheme - BBC article on the scrapping of the Immigration Bond Scheme, a plan to make certain visitors pay a deposit of up to £3,000 to enter Britain.
Meta Description: [ A plan to make certain visitors pay a deposit of up to £3,000 to enter Britain has been dropped by the government. ]
BBC: Population growth - BBC article from late September 2001 on data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) about population growth by ethnic group.
Meta Description: [ Britain's ethnic minorities are growing at 15 times the rate of the white population. ]
Guardian Society Big Issues: Asylum seekers - Ongoing coverage of news, analysis and commentary including policy and reform, the numbers, accommodation and integration, children, health issues and charities plus web resources.
Guardian Special Report: Refugees - Full coverage of news, comment and analysis plus interactive guides, video report and backgrounders. Links to web resources including pressure groups, political groups, UK government sites, UN sites plus international news and sites.
Immigrants could stem population fall - Report on a study by the Migration Unit at Swansea University, which suggests Britain's ethnic minorities provide us with an opportunity rather than a problem
Meta Description: [ Britain needs more immigrants to avoid a crisis caused by falling birth rates and an ageing population, a report suggests. ]
Moving Here - A database of digitised material on Caribbean, Jamaican, Barbadian, Irish, Jewish, South Asian, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan migration into England. Stories, photographs, documents and family histories.
Scotsman Hot Topics: Immigration and refugees - News and commentary archives.
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