Definition(s)
A person who has:
(a) migrated into their present country of residence; and / or
(b) previously had a different nationality from their present country of residence; and / or
(c) at least one of their parents previously entered their present country of residence as a migrant.
Source(s)
Derived by EMN from paragraphs 360-368 in the UN Economic Commission for Europe: Recommendations for the 2010 Censuses of Population and Housing, 2010
Translations
- BG: лице с миграционен произход
- CS: osoba s migračním původem
- DE: Person mit Migrationshintergrund
- EL: άτομο με μεταναστευτική καταγωγή
- EN: person with a migratory background
- ES: persona de origen migratorio
- ET: rändetaustaga isik
- FI: maahanmuuttajataustainen henkilö
- FR: personne issue de l’immigration
- GA: duine ag a bhfuil cúlra imirceach
- HU: migrációs háttérű személy
- IT: persona con un background migratorio
- LT: asmuo, kilęs iš migrantų šeimos arba asmuo, gyvenantis ne savo kilmės valstybėje
- LV: persona ar migrācijas pieredzi
- MT: Persuna bi storja ta’ migrazzjoni warajha
- NL: persoon met een migratieachtergrond
- PL: osoba z przeszłością migracyjną
- PT: pessoa com antecedentes migratórios
- RO: persoană cu trecut migraţionist
- SK: osoba s migrantským pôvodom
- SL: oseba z migracijskim ozadjem
- SV: person med invandrarbakgrund
- NO: person med innvandrerbakgrunn (b); person med innvandrarbakgrunn (n)
- KA: მიგრაციული წარსულის მქონე პირი
- UK: особа з мігрантським походженням
Synonym(s)
- person in a migratory context
- person of migrant origin
Narrower Term(s)
Note(s)
1. This is a broad definition which aims to encompass all possibilities for a person who has undertaken a migration at some point and/or has parents who did so.
2. Point (a) can also include a national of the country of residence who previously lived elsewhere and then returned to their country of nationality.