birth tourism

The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel

by Paige McClanahan  · 17 Jun 2024  · 206pp  · 78,882 words

, and looking wise, and imagining we are finding out a good deal about it!” But gallop about they did. A hundred years after its etymological birth, tourism was still the domain of the rich—though it was no longer the exclusive domain of the superrich—and it was beginning to take on

Lonely Planet China (Travel Guide)

by Lonely Planet and Shawn Low  · 1 Apr 2015  · 3,292pp  · 537,795 words

in Hong Kong (where the child also qualified for Hong Kong citizenship). The Hong Kong government has used new legislation to curb this phenomenon, dubbed ‘birth tourism’, as government figures revealed that almost half of babies born in the territory in 2010 were born to mainland parents. In 2013, the Hong Kong

The Future Is Asian

by Parag Khanna  · 5 Feb 2019  · 496pp  · 131,938 words

Chinese audience.19 By some estimates, a similar number of Asian “anchor babies” are born each year in the United States to women engaging in birth tourism.20 Students constitute the largest flow of Asians into the United States. Chinese lead the way with nearly 100,000 new arrivals each year, and

Nomad Capitalist: How to Reclaim Your Freedom With Offshore Bank Accounts, Dual Citizenship, Foreign Companies, and Overseas Investments

by Andrew Henderson  · 8 Apr 2018  · 403pp  · 110,492 words

of government arbitrage by which you take the best parts of each country while tossing the worst parts. One way to do this is through birth tourism. Birth Tourism As Pete and I discussed the merits of his theory, we discussed an entirely different angle of giving birth: birthright citizenship. The concept of birthright

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your kids a leg up in the second citizenship department? Sadly, not in Europe; Ireland was the last European nation to abolish their law allowing birth tourism some time ago. The countries to investigate are the pro-immigration countries where anyone can fit in. The Americas fit the bill, with Colombia being

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travel, live, and work in a wide variety of locales. What better start in life could you possibly give your progeny? World Schooling Concepts like birth tourism are part of the remedy to one issue I see again and again in my line of work. The problem is that even those who

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wonder if perhaps you should just stay home until you find the right person to go with you. What is the use of talking about birth tourism and world schooling, you ask, when you are struggling just to find someone to be with? After all, “First comes love.” To be honest, I

The Passenger

by AA.VV.  · 23 May 2022  · 192pp  · 59,615 words

designed to regularise those who had been freed from slavery, and today it guarantees fundamental rights for the children of immigrants. As a consequence, a birth tourism sector has developed in the USA, the extent of which varies according to estimates (and the political spin of the person doing the calculation). In

The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us

by Joel Kotkin  · 11 Apr 2016  · 565pp  · 122,605 words

-density countries like Australia, Canada, and the United States.66 Some Chinese mothers, in order to give birth to future American citizens, actually indulge in “birth tourism” so they can have their children in places such as Los Angeles and Orange Counties, where the vast majority of Asians live in family-centric

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conditions in 19th century, 59 global influence of, 82 as imperial city, 24 population of, 115 post-familialism in, 118 socialist planning in, 35–36 Birth tourism, 16 Blake, Peter, 146 Bloomberg, Michael, 13, 39 Bogart, William, 187 Bogotá, 54 Bolick, Kate, 128 Bombay, 28, 60. See also Mumbai Bookman, Jay, 152

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suburbs of, 158 tech employment in, 185 telecommuters in, 188 war against suburbia in, 147 United States affordable housing in, 195 aging population of, 180 birth tourism in, 16 changes in suburbs of, 156–158 childlessness and density in, 116 desire for marriage and children in, 180 dispersion in, 149–151, 162