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birth tourism

birth tourism noun: the travel from one country to another for the purpose of giving birth in the second country, thereby endowing the newborn child with citizenship of the second country.

Noun

birth tourism (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory) The travel from one country to another for the purpose of giving birth in the second country, thereby endowing the newborn child with citizenship of the second country.
    • In Ireland,a sort of birth tourism emerged in which non-EU nationals sought to give birth there to secure citizenship for their children and exemption from deportation for themselves2005, Matthew J. Gibney, Randall Hansen, Immigration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present, Volume 1, →ISBN, page 346
    • Ground zero for U.S. birth tourism appears to be San Gabriel Valley, located in the county of Los Angeles.2011 April 6, Ray Kwong, “Invasion of the Pregnant Women from China”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2024, retrieved 17 Feb 2014

Questions about birth tourism

What does birth tourism mean?
Birth tourism means the travel from one country to another for the purpose of giving birth in the second country, thereby endowing the newborn child with citizenship of the second country.
What part of speech is birth tourism?
Birth tourism is a noun.

Words near birth tourism in the dictionary

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  2. birth time
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  4. birth tongue
  5. birth tongues
  6. birth tourism
  7. birth tourist
  8. birth tourists
  9. birth tray
  10. birth trays
  11. birth weight

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