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* OppressiveImmigrationEnforcement: Enforcers and implementers of stricter immigration control are presented as bigoted, oppressive, and corrupt.
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* PatriotInExile: An immigrant remains loyal to their old country despite being exiled.
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-> ''“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she\\
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor\\
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free\\
The wretched refuse of your teaming shore.\\
Send these, the homeless, the tempest-tost to me\\
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!''
-->-- '''Emma Lazarus''', “[[Art/StatueOfLiberty The New Colossus]]”
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* IChooseToStay

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* IChooseToStayIChooseToStay: A character refuses to go back to their old home after the events that happened in their current destination.
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* StartingANewLife: A character makes a fresh start (usually in another location), possibly with a new identity.
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* IChooseToStay
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* ImmigrantPatriotism: An immigrant loves their new country, and would proudly receive their naturalized citizenship (or already has).

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* ImmigrantPatriotism: An immigrant really loves their new country, and would proudly receive acquiring their naturalized citizenship (or already has).citizenship.
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* WarRefugees: People whose homelands have been brutally devastated by civil war or foreign invasion, so they have fled for their lives by migrating to safer countries.

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* WarRefugees: People whose homelands have been brutally devastated by civil war or foreign invasion, so they have fled for their lives by migrating to safer countries. Refugees who leave their homes behind while staying within their own countries are called "internally displaced persons" ([=IDPs=]).
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* MistakenForForeigner: A native-born citizen (often an ethnic minority descended from immigrants) is mistakenly assumed to be a foreign migrant or traveler who came from abroad.
* MistakenNationality: When someone wrongly assumes or incorrectly guesses which country an immigrant originated from.

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* MistakenEthnicity: When someone incorrectly guesses where another person or their immigrant ancestors came from.
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MistakenForForeigner: A native-born citizen (often an ethnic minority descended from immigrants) is mistakenly assumed to be a foreign migrant or traveler who came from abroad.
* ** MistakenNationality: When someone wrongly assumes or incorrectly guesses which country an immigrant originated from.
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* ImmigrantPatriotism: An immigrant loves their new country, and would proudly receive their naturalized citizenship.

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* ImmigrantPatriotism: An immigrant loves their new country, and would proudly receive their naturalized citizenship.citizenship (or already has).
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* CitywideEvacuation: In a disaster, natural or manage, citizens must leave the city far from dire peril.

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* CitywideEvacuation: In a disaster, natural or manage, manmade disaster, citizens must leave the city far from dire peril.
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* CitywideEvacuation: In a disaster, natural or manage, citizens must leave the city far from dire peril.
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* MistakenNationality: When someone wrongly assumes or incorrectly guesses which country an immigrant originated from.
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* RacialRemnant: The remaining population of an ethnic group decimated by some sort of trouble, who are often geographically separated away from their ancestral homeland.

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* RacialRemnant: The remaining population of an ethnic group decimated by some sort of trouble, catastrophe, who are often geographically separated away from their ancestral homeland.



* WarRefugees: People whose homelands have been devastated by civil war or foreign invasion, so they have fled for their lives by migrating to safer countries.

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* WarRefugees: People whose homelands have been brutally devastated by civil war or foreign invasion, so they have fled for their lives by migrating to safer countries.

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* TheMigration: A homeless population moves to a new home.

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* TheMigration: A homeless population moves The mass migration of large populations of people to a new home.other lands.



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Tropes about immigration (the act of relocating to another country) and diaspora (scattered populations of people with a common origin).

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Tropes about This index is for all tropes related to human migration; including emigration (the act of moving out of one's own country), immigration (the act of relocating to another country) country), and diaspora (scattered populations diasporas (international communities of people with a common origin).
migrants and their descendants living outside of their original homelands).






* CheckpointCharlie: Plots may involve having to cross a border in order to get to where they're going.
* CitizenshipMarriage: One character marries another for the purpose of quick immigration.
* EthnicMenialLabor: The working class is from another country.
* ForeignRulingClass: The ruling class is from another country.
* GoingNative: Adopting the culture one has immigrated to.
* HomeworldEvacuation: The planet is no longer inhabitable, so its residents pack up and leave for elsewhere.
* HumanityCameFromSpace: Long ago, humans emigrated to Earth.
* TheIllegal: An illegal immigrant.

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* CheckpointCharlie: Plots may involve having Someone has to cross a go through an international border crossing in order to get to where they're going.
reach wherever their travel destination is.
* CitizenshipMarriage: One character A foreign immigrant marries another a local citizen for the purpose of quick immigration.
easing the naturalization process.
* EthnicMenialLabor: The working class is from another country.
Poor immigrants are used as a source of cheap labor for local businesses.
* ForeignRulingClass: The ruling class A country's leadership is comprised mostly of settlers originating from another country.
country (as is often the case with dependent territories of colonial empires).
* GoingNative: Adopting Immigrants adopting or assimilating into the culture one has immigrated to.
of their new country.
* HomeworldEvacuation: The An entire planet is no longer inhabitable, so its residents have to pack up and leave for elsewhere.
other worlds elsewhere in space.
* HumanityCameFromSpace: Long ago, humans emigrated migrated to Earth.
Earth from another planet.
* TheIllegal: An illegal immigrant.immigrant is any foreign citizen who is staying in another country without any legal authorization to do so, which may lead to imprisonment and deportation if they are discovered.



* ImmigrantParents: A character's parents came from another country.
* ImmigrantPatriotism: An immigrant character embraces their new culture and expresses it more than their own.
* LimeyGoesToHollywood: British actors relocating to Hollywood.

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* ImmigrantParents: A character's Someone's parents came from another country.
* ImmigrantPatriotism: An immigrant character embraces loves their new culture country, and expresses it more than would proudly receive their own.
naturalized citizenship.
* LimeyGoesToHollywood: British actors relocating to Hollywood.America for show business.



* MistakenForForeigner: A minority character is assumed to have come from abroad.
* NaturalizedName: An immigrant changes their name to better fit in to their new country.
* TheOldCountry: The often unspecified country of origin for these characters.
* RacialRemnant: The remains of a population decimated by some sort of trouble, who are often geographically separated from this population's home.
* RediscoveringRootsTrip: A character, often an immigrant, returns to their family's place of origin to connect with their heritage.
* SettlingTheFrontier: Characters leave their homelands to try and create a society in an inhospitable foreign land.
* TheStateless: Sometimes, a migrant don't have ''any'' citizenship.
* TransplantedHumans: Humans plucked from Earth and relocated somewhere else in space.
* WorthlessForeignDegree: A highly-educated immigrant is overqualified for the jobs they are able to get in the new country.

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* MistakenForForeigner: A native-born citizen (often an ethnic minority character descended from immigrants) is mistakenly assumed to be a foreign migrant or traveler who came from abroad.
* NaturalizedName: An immigrant changes their name to better fit in with their new country.
* TheOldCountry: An immigrant character's (often unspecified) country of origin.
* RacialRemnant: The remaining population of an ethnic group decimated by some sort of trouble, who are often geographically separated away from their ancestral homeland.
* RediscoveringRootsTrip: A character, often an immigrant (or descendant of immigrants), returns to their ancestral nation of origin in order to rediscover their cultural heritage.
* SettlingTheFrontier: Foreign migrants leave their homelands to try and colonize another region that is remote and inhospitable.
* TheStateless: Sometimes, a migrant doesn't
have come ''any'' citizenship, thus rendering them legally foreign to all countries in the world (including the country where they were ''born'', or whichever native homeland their family originated from).
* TransplantedHumans: Humans who were plucked
from abroad.Earth and relocated to another planet somewhere else in space.
* NaturalizedName: An immigrant changes their name to better fit in to their new country.
* TheOldCountry: The often unspecified country of origin for these characters.
* RacialRemnant: The remains of a population decimated by some sort of trouble, who are often geographically separated from this population's home.
* RediscoveringRootsTrip: A character, often an immigrant, returns to their family's place of origin to connect with their heritage.
* SettlingTheFrontier: Characters leave their
WarRefugees: People whose homelands to try and create a society in an inhospitable have been devastated by civil war or foreign land.
* TheStateless: Sometimes, a migrant don't
invasion, so they have ''any'' citizenship.
* TransplantedHumans: Humans plucked from Earth and relocated somewhere else in space.
fled for their lives by migrating to safer countries.
* WorthlessForeignDegree: A highly-educated immigrant is overqualified for the lower-quality jobs that they are only able to get in the new country.


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* RediscoveringRootsTrip: A character, often an immigrant, returns to their family's place of origin to connect with their heritage.
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Tropes about immigration (the act of relocating to another country) and diaspora (scattered populations of people with a common origin).

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* CheckpointCharlie: Plots may involve having to cross a border in order to get to where they're going.
* CitizenshipMarriage: One character marries another for the purpose of quick immigration.
* EthnicMenialLabor: The working class is from another country.
* ForeignRulingClass: The ruling class is from another country.
* GoingNative: Adopting the culture one has immigrated to.
* HomeworldEvacuation: The planet is no longer inhabitable, so its residents pack up and leave for elsewhere.
* HumanityCameFromSpace: Long ago, humans emigrated to Earth.
* TheIllegal: An illegal immigrant.
* AnImmigrantsTale: The story of packing up and leaving for a new country in hopes of a better life, as well as coping with the change.
* ImmigrantParents: A character's parents came from another country.
* ImmigrantPatriotism: An immigrant character embraces their new culture and expresses it more than their own.
* LimeyGoesToHollywood: British actors relocating to Hollywood.
* TheMigration: A homeless population moves to a new home.
* MistakenForForeigner: A minority character is assumed to have come from abroad.
* NaturalizedName: An immigrant changes their name to better fit in to their new country.
* TheOldCountry: The often unspecified country of origin for these characters.
* RacialRemnant: The remains of a population decimated by some sort of trouble, who are often geographically separated from this population's home.
* SettlingTheFrontier: Characters leave their homelands to try and create a society in an inhospitable foreign land.
* TheStateless: Sometimes, a migrant don't have ''any'' citizenship.
* TransplantedHumans: Humans plucked from Earth and relocated somewhere else in space.
* WorthlessForeignDegree: A highly-educated immigrant is overqualified for the jobs they are able to get in the new country.
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