{
  "id": "nation-of-immigrants.arrival",
  "term": "nation of immigrants",
  "sense": "arrival",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 19,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A nation that makes its boundary wider by reading its members as people who came from other lands, so those who come now read as inside it.",
  "folk_gloss": "a country whose identity is described as built by people who arrived from elsewhere",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "boundary.limit",
      "narrative.self-story",
      "in-group.inside",
      "cross.pass",
      "nation.political",
      "make.verb",
      "wide.spatial",
      "read.information",
      "member.social",
      "people.social",
      "come.arrive",
      "land.geography",
      "time.dimension",
      "inside.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "The story of the group's past makes crossing into it the thing its members have in common, so a new crossing reads as joining that story instead of coming from outside it.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "an origin that includes the newcomer",
      "crossing the boundary read as belonging"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "John F. Kennedy's book 'A Nation of Immigrants' was first published in 1958.",
      "domain": "history"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "outsiders-coming-in.crossing",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "the inverse reading of the same crossing"
    },
    {
      "id": "narrative.self-story",
      "type": "abstracts",
      "note": "the boundary is widened through the story the group tells of its past"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "a nation of immigrants",
    "country of immigrants",
    "land of immigrants",
    "nation of immigrants"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-nation-of-immigrants.arrival"
}