Talk:Chain migration

message: Better cite some statistics about that immigration or delete this article altogether!!!--Cuvtixo 04:40, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Other issues can be added to this article, such as people coming in for arranged marriages (particularly common in the UK)--MartinUK (talk) 12:04, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Such uses are covered in the entry on family reunification. Terjen (talk) 07:54, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cite or delete

message: This article is almost entirely about the US. I suggest the existing sections should be renamed to relate specifically to the US, and other countries added; or else the whole article be renamed so as to be specific to the US.
Ben Finn (talk) 09:38, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: US-centric

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: It read likes a conservative think tank's PR piece. Miserlou (talk) 08:23, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Problems associated with chain migration section is a mess

message: There are multiple issues with this paragraph. 
* The lead is supposed to be a summary of the article body. But all that I can find in the body is the unsourced statement "In the United States, the term 'chain migration' is used by advocates of limiting immigration to partially explain the volume and national origins of legal immigration since 1965." 
* The quote from the book on Polish migration just shows how one particular author defines the two terms in a *very specific context*. Chain migration is: "women invite sisters, mothers, female cousins and friends to join them". So chain migration can't involve men then? If this claim is true more generally, there will be better references available.
* The incorrect term "chain migration" - eh? Is "undocumented immigrant" more or less correct than "illegal alien"? If your argument is "family reunification" occurs in U.S. legislation, well, I'd point out that "illegal alien" is also the term used in legal documents. Also, where is this claim made in Vox (and is Vox an acceptabnle source for making contentious political statements in wikipedia's voice?) NPalgan2 (talk) 20:24, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: paragraph in lead

message: Could I ask that instead of wholesale reversion of my collection of edits you point out any specific deficiencies that you see?  Thanks in advance - Hoplon (talk) 02:39, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: * You repeatedly ended sentences with double periods e.g. "... and friends.. "
* Broken references e.g.  Use the cite tool. (With page numbers - how is someone supposed to find the reference in a hundreds of pages long book?)
* "Concern over Chain Migration" Small point, but see MOS:SECTIONCAPS 
* You inserted spaces when adding citations, which is ... not done, e.g. "The term was coined in 1964 "
* Citing just "Linden" is wrong too (should be "van der Linden and Hofmeester". Read WP:CITE.
Stuff like this will get your contributions reverted by other editors. NPalgan2 (talk) 16:49, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for the specifics, I can work on those - Hoplon (talk) 19:50, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPalgan2 reversion 

message: Avoid the term "chain migration": “A term applied by immigration hardliners to what the U.S. government calls family-based immigration, a longstanding program granting preference to people with relatives who already have legal residency or U.S. citizenship. Avoid the term except when used in a quotation, and explain it.” Snooganssnoogans (talk) 12:22, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added the info . --Sangdeboeuf (talk) 23:42, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  AP style guide says to avoid the term 'Chain migration'