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The rights and responsibilities that a person has a result of being born or naturalized in a country.

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Featured Articles

Disparity in Disability between Native-Born non-Hispanic White and Foreign-Born Asian Older Adults in the United States: Effects of Educational Attainment and Age at Immigration

Special Issue Part II: Illegalization and Embodied Vulnerability in Health

Special Issue Part I: “Deservingness” and the Politics of Health Care

Special Issue Introduction: Place, Migration, and Health

More than Culture: Structural Racism, Intersectionality Theory, and Immigrant Health

Everyday Violence, Structural Racism and Mistreatment at the United States – Mexico Border

Featured Books

World of Our Fathers

Irving Howe

Kiyo’s Story: A Japanese-American Family’s Quest for the American Dream

Kiyo Sato

Political Tribes, Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations

Amy Chua

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them

Joshua Greene

From Immigrants to Americans: The Rise and Fall of Fitting In

Jacob Vigdor

Featured Podcasts

Immigration Reform

Sanctuary Cities

Temporary Visas

Immigration Enforcement under Trump

DREAMers and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program

Immigration Nation

Featured Videos

Tan Le: My Immigration Story

David Miliband: The Refugee Crisis is a Test of Our Character

Duarte Geraldino: What we’re missing in the debate about immigration

Michael Rain: What It’s Like to be the Child of Immigrants

Luma Mufleh: Don’t feel sorry for refugee – believe in them

Sayu Bhojwani: Immigrant voices make democracy stronger