examination of immigrants in their home countries. In the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (INA), seven of the 31 grounds for exclusion were health-related...

repealed the exclusion and allowed 105 Chinese immigrants to enter the United States each year. Chinese immigration later increased with the passage of the Immigration...

diseases, marking the beginning of medical exclusion of immigrants in the United States. Aliens who were detained for a medical examination were still considered...

Social exclusion or social marginalisation is the social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society. It is a term that has been used widely in...

the medical exclusion of immigrants in the interest of public health. Beginning with the Immigration Act of 1882, Congress acted to exclude immigrants with...

formation of organizations such as the Asiatic Exclusion League. East Asian immigrants, particularly Chinese Americans who composed the majority of the population...

United States. While the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 had already excluded immigrants from China, the immigration of people from Asian countries in addition...

Oriental Exclusion Act) also worked to systematically exclude Korean immigrants from coming to the US. Due to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952...

property and citizenship rights of Japanese immigrants, just as similar groups had previously organized against Chinese immigrants. Beginning in the late 19th...

Canadians of full or partial Han Chinese ancestry, which includes both naturalized Chinese immigrants and Canadian-born Chinese. They comprise a subgroup of East...

age and income group, immigrants are less likely to have health insurance. With the recent healthcare changes, many legal immigrants with various immigration...

patrol officers only apprehended immigrants on established routes where they had access to resources; this forced immigrants into more rural areas with less...

Moral exclusion is a psychological process where members of a group view their own group and its norms as superior to others, belittling, marginalizing...

second station opened in 1900 and housed facilities for medical quarantines and processing immigrants. After 1924, Ellis Island was used primarily as a detention...

degradation. Many immigrants were unable to board these voyages due to the Geary Act of 1892 which blocked the reunion of immigrants in America with their...

of exclusion of Asian immigrants. Although the exact number of Asian immigrants was small compared to that of immigrants from other regions, much of it...

in 2021, with plans to increase the annual intake of immigrants to 500,000 per year. New immigrants settle mostly in major urban areas in the country...

enacted with the Page Act of 1875, banning Chinese women, and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, expanded to all Chinese immigrants. Since the late 19th century...

as a permanent resident, and eliminated exclusion of homosexuals under the medically unsound classification of "sexual deviant" that was in the 1965 Act...

of restrictions on immigrants who could be admitted into the United States, most notably ones regarding disability and disease. The Chinese Exclusion...

sanguinis ("right of blood"). Some people oppose the application of birthright citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants. Some argue citizenship...

climate or requirements of Canada, or of immigrants of any specified class, occupation or character." Indigenous peoples of Canada were treated in racially...

to the costs and resources associated with providing medical treatment to travelers and immigrants pursuing citizenship. For example, if a foreign national...

effectively prohibited the entry of Chinese women, marking the end of open borders. Seven years later, the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act banned immigration by Chinese...

one major barrier for immigrants, since many who are immigrants do not speak English as their first language, and the lack of language-inclusive information...

proposed as a public charge. Immigrants who were found with physical or mental ailments were prospective for exclusion. Their ailments were seen to affect...

abroad, under the Chinese Exclusion Act, a law banning virtually all Chinese immigration and prohibiting Chinese immigrants from becoming naturalized...

diseases, marking the beginning of medical exclusion of immigrants in the United States. Aliens who were detained for a medical examination were still considered...

demographics. Since the early 16th century, with the arrival of the Spanish, Mexico has received immigrants from Europe, Africa, the Americas (particularly the...

stereotype, which contributes to exclusion of Albanian immigrants, legal or illegal, from economic, social, and spatial spheres of Greek life. Despite this,...