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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.
Impact play
Impact play is a consensual BDSM activity of striking a partner with hands or implements (paddles, floggers, canes) for sensation and power exchange; risks concentrate on head, neck, kidneys, and genitals.
Imperial, royal and noble ranks
Imperial, royal and noble ranks, also called noble ranks, are the graded titles ordering monarchs, their families, and nobility, a system rooted in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Implicit-association test
The implicit-association test (IAT), introduced by Greenwald, McGhee, and Schwartz in 1998, measures implicit attitudes and stereotypes via response-time differences. Meta-analyses show weak predictive validity (r about .27) and negligible incremental validity over self-report, making it a contested but widely used research tool.
Impostor syndrome
Impostor syndrome, or impostor phenomenon, is the persistent inability to internalize success and fear of being exposed as a fraud, described by Clance and Imes in 1978; it is not a DSM or ICD diagnosis, affects an estimated 70% of people, and lacks a gold-standard measure.
Impression management
Impression management, or self-presentation, is the control of information to steer others' opinions, originating in Goffman's 1959 dramaturgical theory and studied via Leary and Kowalski's motivation-construction model, tactics like self-promotion and ingratiation, and measurement as socially desirable responding.
Impulsivity
Impulsivity, also called impulsiveness, is the tendency toward rapid, unplanned actions with diminished regard for negative consequences. Measured multidimensionally via the BIS-11 and UPPS-P trait scales and behavioral tasks like delay discounting, Go/No-Go, and Stop-Signal; linked to ADHD, addictions, bipolar and borderline personality disorders.
In-group favoritism
In-group favoritism, also called ingroup love, is the tendency to favor one's own group over outgroups; explained by Tajfel and Turner's social identity theory, it arises even in minimal groups and drives most everyday discrimination more than outgroup hostility.
Inah Canabarro Lucas
Inah Canabarro Lucas (Irmã Inah, 1908–2025) was a Brazilian Teresian nun, teacher, and supercentenarian; validated oldest living person from December 2024, last person born in 1908, second-oldest nun ever.
Inattentional blindness
Inattentional blindness, also called perceptual blindness, is the failure to notice a fully visible unexpected object when attention is engaged elsewhere; coined by Mack and Rock (1998), studied via the gorilla video and cross task.
Incel
Incel (involuntary celibate) is an online subculture of men who define themselves by perceived inability to form romantic relationships; coined by a woman in the 1990s, now part of the manosphere, marked by blackpill ideology, rare but high-profile violence, and widespread mental health struggles.
Incest
Incest is sexual activity or marriage between close relatives within prohibited degrees of consanguinity. Covers the near-universal incest taboo, Westermarck and inbreeding explanations, genetic risks, comparative criminal law, and family-member sexual abuse statistics.
Incest between twins
Incest between twins: sexual activity or marriage between co-twin siblings, treated under general sibling incest law. Covers Balinese and Zulu twin beliefs, the Westermarck effect, the 2008 co-twin marriage case, genetic risks, and legal status.
Incest in the Bible
Incest in the Bible covers the prohibited-relationship lists of Leviticus 18 and 20 and Deuteronomy 27, narratives of Lot's daughters, Judah and Tamar, and Amnon and Tamar, ancient Near Eastern parallels, and the Qur'anic reception in Q 4:22–23.
Incest taboo
Incest taboo is a cultural rule prohibiting sexual relations or marriage between close relatives. It exists in every human society, though its scope varies widely.
Incidents at Universal parks
Incidents at Universal parks: injuries, deaths, and malfunctions at Universal Destinations & Experiences parks, centered on the 2025 Stardust Racers death at Epic Universe and Florida's large-park self-inspection exemption.
Incidents of necrophilia
Incidents of necrophilia, also called sexual attraction to corpses, a rare paraphilia; documented through Rosman and Resnick's 122-case review, Aggrawal's 10-class system, and homicidal case studies.
Independent Living
Independent living: disability-rights philosophy and movement, founded in Berkeley in 1972 by Ed Roberts and others, holding that people with disabilities control their own lives; implemented through over 350 U.S. centers for independent living under Rehabilitation Act Title VII.
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), fraternal order founded by Thomas Wildey in Baltimore on April 26, 1819; independent of England's Manchester Unity in 1843; motto Friendship, Love, and Truth; peak of 1,898,567 members in 1921.
Index of articles related to African Americans
Indexes of articles related to African Americans: reference tools spanning the National Archives' genealogy finding aids, the JAH's 250-entry article index, Black bibliographies from Du Bois and Monroe Work, and periodical and biographical indexes.