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Search results for: “forced migration”

  • Marriage

    Legal Definition of Marianismo Meaning of Marianismo The Spanish and Latin American ideal of women being modest, restrained, virtuous, and nurturing. Women are expected to be sexually abstinent before marriage and passive in response to their […]

  • Nationality

    Nationality

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Nationality Meaning of Nationality That quality or character which arises from the fact of a person belonging to a nation or state . Determines the political status of the individual, especially with […]

  • Deportation

    The act of carrying away, removal , transportation , exile, banishment. In modern law the forceable removal of an alien . See petition for Milanovic, (D.C.N. Y.) 162 F. Supp. 890.

  • Berlin Wall

    Definition of Berlin Wall The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Berlin Wall: A barrier of barbed wire and, later, of concrete and minefields built in 1961 between the eastern (communist controlled) sector of the city of Berlin and the western sector. […]