noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ illegal
▪ undocumented ( esp. AmE )
▪
the 11 million undocumented ~s living in California
▪ legal
▪
the number of legal ~s to the US
▪ foreign
▪ Hispanic , Irish , Italian , Jewish , Mexican , etc.
▪ newly arrived , recent , recently arrived
▪ would-be
▪ first-generation , second-generation
▪
Like many first-generation ~s, they worked hard and saved most of their earnings.
▪ working-class
▪
These were working-class ~s, mainly from rural parts of Mexico.
▪ poor
▪
poor ~s from Latin American countries
▪ skilled
▪
The government is eager to attract skilled ~s.
▪ unskilled
… OF IMMIGRANTS
▪ flood , influx , tide , wave
VERB + IMMIGRANT
▪ accept , welcome
▪ attract , draw , encourage
▪
These factors attracted new ~s.
▪ bring , smuggle
▪
boats bringing illegal ~s over from North Africa
▪ assimilate ( esp. AmE )
▪
a careful mechanism for assimilating ~s
▪ employ , hire
▪
Businesses may want to hire skilled ~s.
▪ assist , help
▪ detain
▪
the circumstances under which ~s were detained
▪ target
▪
anti-terrorist legislation that targeted ~s
▪ deport , return
▪
ships laden with would-be ~s who were forcibly returned
▪ exclude
▪
a law designed to exclude Chinese ~s
IMMIGRANT + VERB
▪ arrive , enter sth , move to sth , pour into sth , settle sth
▪
~s seeking to enter the country
▪
the ~s who poured into America
▪ come from sth
▪ flee sth
▪
European ~s fleeing Nazism in the 1930s
▪ live in sth , settle in sth
▪
a family of Turkish ~s living in California
▪
European ~s settled much of Australia.
▪ work
▪
a young Afghan ~ who has worked at the store for years
▪ found sth
▪
The company was founded by two ~s from Bangladesh.
▪ speak sth
▪
recent ~s who do not speak English
▪ seek sth
▪
Mexican ~s seeking farm work
▪ experience sth
▪ face sth
▪
the issues faced by Dominican ~s
▪ assimilate
▪
Italian ~s assimilated easily into Brazilian society.
IMMIGRANT + NOUN
▪ community , family , generation , group , minority , population
▪ labourer/laborer , student , worker
▪ labour/labor
▪ neighbourhood/neighborhood
▪ status
▪
They are trying to secure ~ status for their families.
▪ experience
▪
different aspects of the ~ experience
▪ rights
▪ culture , identity
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ from
▪ ~ to
▪
She was the daughter of Chinese ~s to America.