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Alienage

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ALIENAGE. The condition or state of alien.


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Here is a typical example, from the short story "He" (1939): "Garish daylight shewed [sic] only squalor and alienage [sic] and the noxious elephantiasis of climbing, spreading stone .
In modem societies the foundational institutions for membership are citizenship and alienage.
The history of immigration and alienage laws within the United States demonstrate, as Stephen Shie-Wei Fan has argued, that "issues of race and alienage are often intimately interrelated where immigration law and policy are concerned" (Fan 1202).
 
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