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Immigration effects of same-sex relationships
The immigration effects of same-sex relationships cover how binational LGBT couples obtain residency through partner sponsorship or asylum, a US pathway barred by DOMA until the Supreme Court struck it down in 2013.
Immigration policy of the second Trump administration
Immigration policy of the second Trump administration: executive actions since January 20, 2025 pursuing mass deportation, border closure, expanded ICE detention, and curtailed asylum, refugee, TPS, and parole programs.
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), Public Law 99-603, signed November 6, 1986: banned knowingly hiring unauthorized immigrants, created Form I-9 verification, and legalized about 2.7 million people.
Immigration to Australia
Immigration to Australia is the movement of people from overseas to settle there, from First Fleet convicts in 1788 to today's net overseas migration of about 292,000 a year.
Immigration to Canada
Immigration to Canada is the admission of foreign nationals managed by IRCC. The 2026-2028 Levels Plan sets targets for permanent resident admissions at 380,000 per year.
Immigration to Europe
Immigration to Europe: movement of non-EU and intra-EU migrants to European states; 4.2 million non-EU immigrants to the EU in 2024, 29 million third-country national residents (6.4%), 913,000 first-time asylum applications, and the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum applying from 12 June 2026.
Immigration to France
Immigration to France: foreign-born residents (immigrés) since the mid-19th century; 7.2 million immigrants (10.6%) in 2023, 1974 labor-immigration suspension, state recruitment since 1919, and integration outcomes.
Immigration to Germany
Immigration to Germany, also called migration in Germany, is the movement of foreign nationals into the Federal Republic, which has been one of the world's largest immigrant-receiving countries since the 1950s.
Immigration to India
Immigration to India is the movement of foreign nationals into India for residence, work, study, or refuge. Fewer than 5 million residents were foreign-born in 2020.
Immigration to Japan
Immigration to Japan is the movement of foreign nationals into Japan for work, study, family, or protection, with over 4 million foreign residents by 2025.
Immigration to Norway
Immigration to Norway: movement of foreign-born people to Norway; 987,120 immigrants (17.5% of population) in 2026, up from 6.5% in 2000; main groups Polish and Ukrainian; governed by UDI permits and the 2003/2021 integration acts.
Immigration to Spain
Immigration to Spain, also known as immigration in Spain, is the settlement of foreign nationals in Spain, which grew from 1.2 million foreign-born residents in 1998 to 6 million a decade later.
Immigration to Sweden
Immigration to Sweden: movement of foreign-born people into Sweden, about 20% of the population. Covers postwar labor migration, the 2015 asylum wave, tightened asylum, work permit, and citizenship rules, EU Pact adaptation from 12 July 2026, and labor market outcomes.
Immigration to the United States
Immigration to the United States: foreign-born population of about 47.8 million (2023), governed by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, with family-sponsored permanent residence the dominant pathway and small long-run native wage effects per the National Academies.
Immirzi parameter
The Immirzi parameter, or Barbero-Immirzi parameter γ, is a free dimensionless constant in loop quantum gravity that sets the size of the quantum of area.
Immiserizing growth
Immiserizing growth is a trade-theory phenomenon in which growth makes a country poorer, as an adverse terms-of-trade shift outweighs the welfare gain; Jagdish Bhagwati coined the term in 1958.
Immobiliser
An immobiliser, also called an engine immobiliser, is an electronic security device that stops a car's engine starting unless the correct key is present, helping cut car theft.
Immobilized enzyme
Immobilized enzyme: an enzyme fixed to or within a solid support or compartment for reuse and easy separation. Methods include adsorption, entrapment, encapsulation, covalent binding, and cross-linking; used in food, pharma, and wastewater industries.
Immobilized metal affinity chromatography
Immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC) is a protein purification technique separating proteins by affinity for metal ions chelated to a solid support, used mainly to purify His-tagged recombinant proteins in one step.
Immobilized yeast fermentation
Immobilized yeast fermentation is a technique that confines yeast cells, usually Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to a carrier inside a bioreactor, enabling continuous, high-density sugar conversion for bioethanol and beverages.
Immobilized-cell and fixed-bed bioreactors
Immobilized-cell and fixed-bed bioreactors are bioreactors that retain cells or enzymes on carrier material while medium flows past, giving very high cell densities and productivities, and running for months in viral-vector and vaccine manufacturing.
Immoral Tales (film)
Immoral Tales (Contes immoraux) is Walerian Borowczyk's 1973/1974 French erotic anthology of four historical episodes on virginity, masturbation, bloodlust, and incest, a French box-office hit mired in 1970s censorship controversies.
Immortal (2004 film)
Immortel (ad vitam), also released as Immortal or The Woman Trap, is Enki Bilal's 2004 French sci-fi film set in New York in 2095, mixing live action with CGI, based on his Nikopol Trilogy, starring Linda Hardy, Thomas Kretschmann, and Charlotte Rampling.
Immortal (2026 film)
Immortal (இம்மார்டல்) is a 2026 Tamil vampire horror film directed by Mariyappan Chinna, starring G. V. Prakash Kumar as Magi and Kayadu Lohar as Sindhu; released 4 September 2026, UA 16+, streaming on SonyLIV from 30 October 2026.
Immortal (band)
Immortal is a Norwegian black metal band formed in Bergen in 1990 by Demonaz and Abbath, known for the Blashyrkh winter realm concept and albums from Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism (1992) to War Against All (2023).
Immortal Game
The Immortal Game is a famous 1851 chess game in London where Adolf Anderssen gave up both rooks and his queen to checkmate Lionel Kieseritzky, emblematic of Romantic attacking chess.
Immortal Samsara (沉香如屑)
Immortal Samsara (沉香如屑·沉香重华) is a 2022 Chinese xianxia romance drama on Youku, adapted from Su Mo's novel, starring Yang Zi and Cheng Yi in a 59-episode two-part love trial story.
Immortal Songs: Singing the Legend
Immortal Songs: Singing the Legend (불후의 명곡 - 전설을 노래하다) is KBS2's long-running Korean singing competition, aired since 2011 and hosted by Shin Dong-yup, where vocalists reinterpret a legendary singer's songs for an audience vote.
Immortal Technique
Immortal Technique (Felipe Andres Coronel, born 1978, Lima) is a Peruvian-born, Harlem-raised underground rapper and activist of Revolutionary Vol. 1/2 and The 3rd World, known for socialist political lyrics and humanitarian work.
Immortal time bias
Immortal time bias is a systematic error in observational studies with time-to-event outcomes, arising when follow-up time during which the outcome cannot occur is misclassified or excluded, usually favoring the treatment.