# nation of immigrants (arrival)

*Ordinarily means:* a country whose identity is described as built by people who arrived from elsewhere

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.

- Computed level: L19 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit), [narrative](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-narrative.self-story), [in-group](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-in-group.inside), [cross](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-cross.pass), [nation](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-nation.political), [make](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-make.verb), [wide](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wide.spatial), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social), [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [come](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-come.arrive), [land](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-land.geography), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension), [inside](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-inside.spatial)

**Through:** 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
- John F. Kennedy's book 'A Nation of Immigrants' was first published in 1958. *(history)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-nation-of-immigrants.arrival.json*  
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