Immigrants
From Library of Congress Subject Headings
Immigrants
- Here are entered works on foreign-born persons who enter a country intending to become permanent residents or citizens. Works on persons who change their place of residence from one locality to another within the borders of a single country are entered under [Internal migrants.]
- This heading may be locally subdivided by names of places where immigrants settle.
- For works discussing emigrants from a particular place, an additional heading is assigned to designate the nationality of origin of the emigrant group and the place to which they have immigrated, e.g. [Chinese--United States; Americans--Foreign countries.]
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064517
- info:lc/authorities/sh85064517
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85064517#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Emigrants
- Foreign-born population
- Foreign population
- Foreigners
- Migrants
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Sources
- found: Web. 3 (A person who moves into another area in order to find work esp. seasonal labor)
- found: LC database, July 19, 1994 (Foreign born population)
- found: Alien to citizen : settling migrants in Australia, 1997.
- found: Arabs in exile : Yemeni migrants in urban Britain, 1992.
General Notes
- Here are entered works on foreign-born persons who enter a country intending to become permanent residents or citizens. Works on persons who change their place of residence from one locality to another within the borders of a single country are entered under [Internal migrants.]
- This heading may be locally subdivided by names of places where immigrants settle.
- For works discussing emigrants from a particular place, an additional heading is assigned to designate the nationality of origin of the emigrant group and the place to which they have immigrated, e.g. [Chinese--United States; Americans--Foreign countries.]
Example Notes
- Note under [Internal migrants]
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 2007-02-16: revised
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