英语词汇“anchor child”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

anchor child n. originally and chiefly North American a child sent by his or her family to live in a foreign country in order to qualify for citizenship or legal residency there, as a means of securing citizenship or legal residency for other family members; (in later use also) = anchor baby n.

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1986 Thailand Trip Rep. (Minnesota: Governor's State Advisory Council for Refugees) 25 Others are ‘anchor children’, sent out of Vietnam by their parents in hopes that they will survive the ocean journey, be eligible for resettlement as unaccompanied minors, and serve as anchors to draw the rest of the family out.

2005 Star-News (Wilmington, N. Carolina) (Electronic ed.) 28 Dec. 1 a Undocumented immigrants use ‘that anchor baby to then stave off deportation, apply for welfare and then eventually pull more relatives legally into the United States via the relationship to the anchor child’.

2016 Sunday Times (Electronic ed.) 31 Jan. 32 Many of the new arrivals are called anchor children, dispatched by parents from war-torn or impoverished countries in the hope that they will get asylum and bring in the rest of the family.

单词	anchor child
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