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birth tourism

noun

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  1. The travel from one country to another for the purpose of giving birth in the second…

    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 themselves
    • Ground zero for U.S. birth tourism appears to be San Gabriel Valley, located in the county of Los Angeles.
    • 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.

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