Euroimmigrant

English

Alternative forms

• Euro-immigrant
• euroimmigrant

Etymology

Euro- +‎ immigrant

Noun

Euroimmigrant (plural Euroimmigrants)

1. Someone who is a European immigrant or descended from European colonists or immigrants.
   • 1985, Joshua A. Fishman, The Rise and Fall of the Ethnic Revival, →ISBN:

     Although most of the other occurrences involved indigenous minorities (Welsh, Irish, Scots, Bretons, Alsatians, Frisians Catalons, Basques, etc.,), several immigrant settings also revealed a quickening of minority ethnocultural effort: e.g., among Gastarbeiter immigrants in Western and Northern Europe, among "non-Founding" minorities in Canada, among Euroimmigrants in Australia, etc.

   • 1995, Sandra Jackson, José Solís, Beyond Comfort Zones in Multiculturalism, →ISBN:

     The concem here is that multiculturalism and cultural diversity issues continue to be defined by the dominant society, of Euroimmigrant doorkeepers.

   • 2009, Fernando F. Segovia, R. S. Sugirtharajah, A Postcolonial Commentary on the New Testament Writings, →ISBN, page 329:

     The project of this form of colonialism is, in the words of Priscilla Luj an Falcón, 'the physical movement of Euroimmigrants into a non-European land base, state, region, or territory, displacing or eliminating the native inhabitants' (1995: 115).