Geography
Migration Regimes and the Stratification of Legal Statuses
Quick fact
In many countries, a person can be legally present but not legally allowed to work, or legally married to a citizen but not legally entitled to stay—creating a fine-grained hierarchy of rights that can change overnight with a policy shift.
Why this is interesting
You've probably heard of 'legal' and 'illegal' immigrants, but did you know that there's actually a whole ladder of statuses between those two extremes?