birth tourism
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In Ireland,a sort of birth tourism emerged in which non-EU nationals sought to give birth there to secure citizenship for their children and exemption from deportation for themselves"
- "Ground zero for U.S. birth tourism appears to be San Gabriel Valley, located in the county of Los Angeles."
- "The Harper government is considering changes to the citizenship rules to target so-called birth tourism — where a foreign national comes to Canada to give birth so the baby can get Canadian citizenship."
- "“Birth tourism” is a xenophobic myth."