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birth tourism (uncountable)
- (idiomatic) 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.
- 2005, Matthew J. Gibney and Randall Hansen, Immigration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present Volume 1, ISBN 9781576077962, p. 346 (Google preview):
- 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 themselves
- 2011 April 6, Ray Kwong, "Invasion of the Pregnant Women from China," Forbes (retrieved 17 Feb 2014):
- Ground zero for U.S. birth tourism appears to be San Gabriel Valley, located in the county of Los Angeles.
- 2012 March 5, Prithi Yelaja, "'Birth tourism' may change citizenship rules," CBC News (Canada) (retrieved 16 Feb 2014):
- The Harper government is considering changes to the citizenship rules to target so-called birth tourism — where a foreign national comes to Canada to give birth so the baby can get Canadian citizenship.
- 2012 April 20, Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Carola Suarez-Orozco, "Opinion: Deporting Parents Hurts Kids," New York Times (retrieved 16 Feb 2014):
- “Birth tourism” is a xenophobic myth.
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